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Over-Work Weakens Your Kidneys. Unhealthy Kidneys Make Impure Blood. All the b : ooa in your body passes through your ktdn ys every three minutes, kidneys 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, achesandrheu- matism come from ex cess of uric acid in the blood, due to neglected kidney triable. Kidney ’rouble causes quick or unsteady heart beais and makes one feel as though they had bran 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 doc’oring your kidneys. The mild and the exfaorainary effect of Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root, the great kidney remedy is soon rear.zed. 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 ore-dollar siz es. You may have a sample bett'e 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 & 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, Binghampton, N. Y., on every bottle. i c- mage Sermon By Rev. Frank DeWitt Talmatfe, D. D. I,os Angeles. Cnl., Oct. 15.—That in gratitude may he one of the meanest NOTICE! Wo want every man and women in the United Statea Interested in the euro of Opium, Whiskoy or other drug habits, either tor 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. Un-to-3af3 Market Your neat on Ice. S I I 'll- • I | cured Hams with skin taken old, sliced thin, for breakfast, or some nice Pork chop or Pork Steak, or some fine Kansas ^City Reef, g > > l and mellow, or Oiler j j[okee Beef. Just as you like. Plenty of Irish Potatoes, Danish Cabbage, Onions and Sets, Country Produce when it can lie got. Heavy and Fancy Groceries, Apples, Oranges, Demons, Beans and Peas, white and colored. ^Fresh Fish Fridays and Saturdays, r Can fill your whole bill at our place. Goods delivered on time. Yours for business, W- ‘vloCjrtJ '-‘Phone No7*6o~ Residence No. 23. r- L.„ Host Anything | And a little of everything is 2 now being shown in my line: i All the new.conceptious and | ..In The Jewelry Line.. From the ,cheapest worth having t<> the very finest specimens and grades. Re pairing done by an Ex vrt. Thos. H. Westrope, 'Next to Shulord & LeMaster4 1 See Us for Prices. 3 houses and lots, all modern im provements. One 5-room house, $800. One 5-room house, $000. Lot 80x 200. One house and lot, $375. Three of the prettiest residence lots in Gaffney, 80x100, $250 each. Two lots, $100 each. One lot, $03. Ono lot. $250. One farm, good location, 100 acres, at a bargain. See us for price. One farm seven miles from Gaffney, containing 225 acres, $12.50 per acre. The cheapest farm in Cherokee coun ty. 1 5-room house, from -depot: out about 2 1-2 blocks buildings, and all modern improvements. Robertson & Gullick One Minute Gough Cure For Coughs, Colds and Croup. i>f sins and fruitful of the worst results is shown in this sermon, the preaelmr Staking his text from Genesis xl, 2.1. 'But forgat him.” How soon "the plowman can over take the reappr.”as the ancient prophet said! How soon after the harvest field I glows with its crop of ripening grain. ! ready for rutting and garnering, does die plow come to tear up the rich soil with its ruthless share! How soon the midnight frosts cover tin* fruits with their ••old. clammy death sweat! The fa- voritesof fortune are sometimes rapidly lifted to success, hut not so quickly as the victims of misfortune are dragged down to ruin. The stone drops from the highest cliff to the bottom of the deep canyon more swiftly than the powerfully winged eagle soars up and up until he dyes his feathers with the golden pigments of the rising sun. The king's frown and the king's smile may follow each other even more rapidly than the charges of the tickle weather of the spring, which King Solomon de scribed when he said, "And the clouds return after the rain." Could any lark with a broken pinion fall te the ground more suddenly than Napoleon 111. fell from his throne? In ls.V.1 he was considered the most pow erful ruler of all Europe. His. great undo's name, his brilliant coup d'etat, which placed him upon the French throne after he had been elected pres ident for ten year : his fostering of the arts in his kingdom, his past military record, circled a halo around his per sonality and made him "the man of the hour.” When the Suez canal was open ed Nov. Id. iMiti, all Europe came to participate in the marriage of the wa ters of the Mediterranean with the wa ters of the Rod sea. Many kings and queens, primes and princesses were there, but the royal yacht, which car ried on board the beautiful Empress Eugenie, was the center of all eyes. At that gathering she was the ruler of kings and the queen of queens. No black cloud darkened her horizon. Yet in a little over one year the Franeo-I’rus- sian war broke nut. Napoleon III. in a short time was an ex-emperor, Sedan had been fought, tin* Tuilerles was ex changed for Chiselhurst. Then the only i crown of Eugenie was a crown of | thorns, pressed into her agonized brain. With one mighty crash the Napoleonic dynasty fell into a heap of ruins. "Door Empress Eugenie!" you say. Why pc >r E renie? She had no mo nopoly of trouble. To be hurled in a lew months fr >m a throne into exile was a startling fate, but to how many have misfortunes come as swiftly and i as poignantly? They pounce upon us as swiftly as a hawk darts for h-ls prey. They come upon us as quickly as they’ came to Joseph and to the chief b iker and the chief butler in the Egyp tian prison. But though they have c mie to us quickly in the past, yet many of us are like the chief butler of Pharaoh's court. As soon as our trou bles leave tt- we forget all about them and their wounds. We forget that the same kind of troubles may afflict us again. Thus we go on practicing the same sins that thing us into our past dilliculties. Let me draw from this simple Bible story some plain, practi cal gospel Ics." >ns. May you and 1 not be like the forgetful butler, but like the unforgetful Joseph, who in his prosper ity remembered his old father Jacob and his brethren ami who in Lis beau tiful, forgiving nature will always re main as one of the Old Testament's pure and noble types of the life of Jesus Christ. ProinlneM of Youth. Like the restored butler are we be cause. In the first place, we have for got ten the promises we made when go ing through the struggles of youth. When injustices were practiced upon us. when we were working during the day and studying during the night for an education, when we had to wear shabby clothes and had to hear the sneers and the taunts of the world, what did we theu say? "All, if I ever | succeed in life l will help all the young I men and women 1 can who are in the same predicament as I am.” We have succeeded. Are we fulfilling our prom ises? As successful ministers have we sympathy with young ministers? As successful doctors have we sympathy with young physicians? As successful murchnuts have we sympathy with young merchants? As successful con tractors have we sympathy with young contractors? No. That is not the gt^i- eral rule. When the doors of Phara oh's court wore opened for us and suc cess was ours, like the chief butler we forgot all about out past promises and the Josephs whom we left behind in prison. Wc forgot our troubles almost Immediately. This statement Is true not only of one but of many depart ments of life. How was it in reference to your co) lege days? Who was the meanest and the most contemptible man on your faculty? Was be the great brained and world honored Mark Hopkins or Eliphnlet Nott 01 Timothy Dwight or. as the boys used to lovingly call him, Jimmy McCosh, who, though the ablest of theologians ami metaphysicians, with his north of Ireland brogue, al ways talked about “me college?" Was he the man who, In a word, had the whole university at his feet? No. The meanest and most contemptible edit eutor In your college faculty was a >’ruing tutor. lie v. < Just out of col lege him -elf. He otigld to have had sympathy with the s.iinrgles of college life if any o.ie should have had. lie was disliked iy his own classmates. You le arned t’ at from your older broth er, who gratlujled the year before you entere I the university. But though that \oiing tutor was just out of eol- lege himself and ought to I/me had si a imtliy with the boys, yet he spent n ost of his time spying upon them. He "conditioned" as many as ho could at cxai;Jnations. He asked the most un fair kind of questions in the class 10 hi. He had a perfect genius for >iug bitter things. He seemed to eel that the chief end of every college ,utor was to make the livei- of the stu dents just as miserable s possible. Not only that, but outside of the class room he was always roaming around soph out of prison; I must have him by my side; 1 must have this Interpre ter of dreams here to warn me against any dangers which are ahead. He must keep me f rom doing wrong again.” But, no. That was not the chief but ler’s way. After the different court of ficials had congratulated him he limit 'd up his gold chalices and looked at their sides. There he sees his own smiling face. Then he said: “Aha, I am safe! I am safe! No da^er now! I am safe forever!” Then in his sup posed safety he forgot the warning signals of the past. Perhaps he fell into the same evil ways which lie once followed, which evil ways may ulti mately have caused his execution, like the baker’s. His decomposing flesh may have been eaten by the hyenas and the vultures who banquet off the dead bodies of all Egyptian criminals. My brother, can it be that we are for- tho halls and the grounds and the town ^tiiug our past misfortunes? Have we forgotten the awful results of our past sins? Do we forget the patience and the pardon and the love of God which once rescued us, as the butler was pardoned from death by his royal master? Foruretful of Punt. The misfortunes of the past can be to find some delinquent and to report some breaking of the college rules. The chief butler of Pharaoh's court In college life forgets the Josephs whom lie has left behind in prison. TnnUmaMter. reference to school Tlie Worst What is true in life is equally true I factory and the department store. The j head of tin* department who is most i cruel and hard hearted and remorse less to those under him is the man who, ! only a few years ago. groaned and suf fered and prayed to God for deliver- ; anee under a like treatment. What is true about overseers is true about enpi- * talists. The rich man who is the most ••ruel in collecting the last dollar, the last cent, owing him and who will strike the hardest bargain is invariably the inan who was once so poor that he knew all the pangs of hunger, all the benumbments of cold, all the horrors that come from facing a flinty eyed creditor. My friend, where is the chief butler of Pliaraoh's court who lias for gotten the trials and agonies of the past struggles of life in his dealings with others? Oh, that we would be more like Jo- seph and less like the chief butler in >ur dealings with our fellow men! If you are a man you have without doubt read that book which is so dear to near ly all boys’ hearts, called "Tom Brown at Rugby." There the English author, Thomas Hughes, writes an autobiogra phy of his early life. He gives an ae- t count of the "fag system" of the great public school of England, the school in which Dr. Arnold made his name as a j teacher honored for all time. The lit tle boys in Hughes' day were not only allowed to be "hazed" by the big boys. I but they had to he their servants. They had to carry the water and Mack the slices and run the errands of the older i students. On bitterly cold nights, with their little shivering bodies, they had to crawl in between the sheets of tin* big hoys' beds and warm them before they could go to their own beds. They had to do everything the big boys or dered them to do. There we find the law of Rugby was the same as is the universal law of life. As a rule, tlv bey who had the hardest time as a lit tle boy was the hardest upon his "fag" when he became a big boy. What American boy has not had the big lump eoiiie into his throat when he read of the struggles of little Tom Brown? And. oh, the prayer of grate fulness we uttered when the “big boy” ef that b<>"k. that “good big boy,” came to die rescue of little Tom! My friends. in reference to the reproduced in our lives if we go on re producing the evils which once caused our downfall. The forgetfulness of the butler may be compared to the dyspep- ; tic’s forgetfulness of bis physical ago- , riles. Nature takes him in hand and flays him with scorpions. By eating what he ought not to eat some night lie nearly dies. He is careful one day, j one week, perhaps one month. Then ! the past sufferings are forgotten. The cravings of a gorniand are satisfied. ! Another night of horror or perhaps even death is the result. The butler’s I forgetfulness is like that of the drunk- ; I ard. Delirium tremens lias gripped him. He imagines serpents are crawl- ’ i lag over his bed. Demons, with eyes of burning coals of tire, are glaring at him. Wild beasts, with their angry roar and their glittering white teeth and their lolling red tongues and their sharp claws working convulsively, are | springing upon him. But in a few weeks he feels so well and strong that he forgets his past terrors. Another I glass of fiery liquid turns his brain into a madhouse. The butler is like you and me if we forget the past evils which we brought upon ourselves through our past sins. <> God, teach us never to take our eyes off the awful precipices of temptation over which we have tum bled again and again into the yawning chasms of despair unless it he to raise them in gratitude to the face of our j Saviour, who, though exalted to the right hand of God, remembers us still. Let us never forget our rescue and our deliverer as the butler forgot Joseph. But 1 must hasten 011. I brand this butler of my text with one of the black est marks ever placed on a man’s brow. It is as black as the mark upon the forehead of Gain, who killed his brother Abel, lie is not only blind to h's own interests, but he is an ingrate. He has turned his hack upon the one friend who was true to him in his time • >f difficulty. He is like a miner 1 was reading about who discovered a rich '.via of g ild ore. He went and showed it' to a friend that they might he sharers together in the wealth. Theu this supposed friend slew the miner that he might possess all the gold him self. This butler was not only a per jurer; he was an ingrate as well. Tli.-it <>ooil SlMor. Is the iug titiido of the chief butler to Joseph duplicated, O man. In your life? You ar< a successful lawyer. Your Income may be ten or twenty thousand dollars a year. You are one of the most honored men In the com niunity. How did you get a start in life? “Oh,” you answer with pride, "1 started myseif. When I came to this city I did not have a friend here. I worked my own way through college. I was a poor farmer's boy. I am a self made man." Are you? Oh, you miser able boaster! You are a contemptible butler of I’iiaraoh's court. You have forgotten your J< seph. You are no more of a self made man than I am. Away back on your father’s farm you had an older sister. She was the "pack horse" of the family. She wanted to get an education and go to college, but he could not. She did, however, edu cate herself enough to become a coun try schoolteacher. But what she could not do herself she set her heart on your doing. You were her only broth er. When you were a little fellow rnu- ning barefooted about your father's farm, caring more for fishing and play ing baseball with the boys than for work, she would call you in and say: "Now, Samuel, you must come and get your lessons. Remember, some day you are going to college. You must study hard. You are to be a great, rich law yer for sister to be proud of." You finished your course at tin* coun try school. Your father said you must go to work on the farm. “No, father." said she; “Samuel must go to college.” • But 1 cannot afford it.” “Well,” she said, “I can do extra work after the school Is over. 1 am saving up my school money for Samuel's college hills.” Your mother did not have much to say. Your sister did it all. Her money helped pay your way. Her grit pushed you through. What have you ever done for her? “Oh,” you answer. "1 paid her back her money, with In- I terest.” The few dollars you gave her did not cost you anything. I tell you, and says; it cost your sister her very blood. Don’t The king , leave her up there in the country as though you were ashamed of her. Don’t tell me that she is not fitted to move in your wife’s social circle. I tell you. she is a queen; I tell you, the best mom In your house Is not too good for her. O butler, what have you done for the Joseph who gave you your educational start in life? Then what have you done for that man who helped you in n time of great persecution? I do not know what that time was, hut yon do. The whole world became black before you. Ev- erybody was turning toward you a look of suspicion. Even your best friends seemed to he wavering. Then that man came forward and with pen or voice or check book tided you over the difficult plane. You told him then you would never forget him. You told him if he was ever in trouble half of what I you have would he his. Is it? Have , you ever divided with him? He has ’ had ids troubles since your day of trou bles. Have you gone to him with help? j You say, “He lias not come and asked me for help.” Did you ask him for help when in that darkest day of your | life he sprang to your side? No. He i came because you needed him. O man, how have you treated your Joseph, 011- jailed today In the Egyptian dungeon? The butler of my. text was an in- | grate. He was more to be condemned than that. He turned bis back upon Ills friend—for what? For false friends. No sooner did he get back to the pal ace than one after another of the cour tiers iu all probability came up to him and congratulated him. “Ah," they i said, “we are so glad to see you back! | We missed you so much. Nothing i went right at the royal banquets while you wore away.” Especially were the underbutlers and the waiters profuse iu their praise and laudations to his face. Then a smile of satisfaction steals over the chief butler’s counte- f nance as he says: “Ah, I am glad I have such good friends here! I am glad I do not have to associate any ! longer with those criminals down in 1 the jail. These are my friends, my true friends!” THE CHANGE OF LIFE INTEkLIGENTWOMEN PREPARE Dangers and Pain of This Critical Period Avoided by the Use of Lydia S. Pink* feam’s Vegetable Compound. How many wo men realize that the most critical period in a wo man’s existence is the change of life, and that the anxiety felt by women as this time draws near is not without reason ? If her system is in a deranged condi tion, or she is predisposed to apoplexy or congestion of any organ, it is at this time likely to become active and, with a host of nervous irritations, make life a burden. At this time, also cancers and tumors are more liable to begin their destruc tive work. Such warning symptoms as a sense of suffocation, hot flashes, diz ziness, headache, dread of impending evil, sounds in the ears, timidity, pal pitation of the heart, sparks before the eyes, irregularities, constipation, variable appetite, weakness and inqui etude are promptly heeded by intelli gent women who are approaching the perlbd of life when woman’s great change may be expected. Lydia E. I'inkhara’s Vegetable Com pound is the world’s greatest remedy for women at this trying period, and may be relied upon to overcome all dis tressing symptoms and carry them safely through to a healthy and happy old age. Lydia E. I’inkham's Vegetable Corn- forward and congratulated the chief pound invigorates and strengthens the female organism, and builds up the weakened nervous system as no other medicine can. Mrs A. E. G. Hyland, of Chester- town, Md., in a letter to Mrs. Pink- ham, says: Dear Mrs. Pinkbam “I bad been suffering with falling of the womb for years and was passing through the change of life. My womb was badly swollen. I had a good deal of soreness, dizzy spells, headaches, and was very nervous. T wrote you for advice and commenced treatment with Lydia E. Pinkhara’s Vegetable Com pound as you directed, and I am happy to say that all those distressing symptoms left me, and I have iiassed safely through the chauge of life a well woman.” For special advice regarding this im portant period women are invited to write to Mrs. Pinkham for advice. It is free and always helpfuL Not Heal FrlenUn. But were all the courtiers who came ciimiot we lie the "good big boys" of life? All of us have served our ap prenticeships as “fags.” We have had <.ur 1 ar l times. Shall we not try to make the burdens of the little "fags" about’us lighter, as Joseph tried to do. or are we going to be hard upon our fellow men. as was the chief butler Who forgot about the troubles of Jo seph, who was once Ids fellow pris- OlH'I't Iu the Hotlcr's I’lnce. There Is a centripetal as well as a centrifugal lesson resulting from this butler of my text ignoring his past mis fortunes. The one forgetfulness blinds his eyes and hardens his heart to the uffprings of others. The second for getfulness blinds his eyes and hardens his heart to the threatening misfor tunes which are ahead. Because this chief butler had safely weathered one hurricane on the sea of life he is very apt to forget to look to the seaworthi ness of his craft and to feel that from now on there will be nothing but j a smooth passage and no threatening 1 storms ahead. Because h<‘ has lain | down upon the operating table and had ! the surgeon's knife cut near his vitals I and successfully remove the dangerous tumor he foolishly supposes that lie | will never have another tumor and ! never have to undergo another similar I physical and mental ordeal. Then I what is the result? As he forgets his j past troubles he also forgets to guard against the sins and evil habits which might have brought him Into his late j difficulties. Let us for a moment put ourselves into that butler’s place. Three days after the interpretation of the chief butler’s and the chief bak er's dreams is past Joseph had said to the baker, “You must die;” to the but ler, “You shall he restored as the cup bearer of the king.” We hear the tramp of the soldiers, fhe warden of the prison enters. He first points to the baker and announces to him that the king has condemned him and or ders him out to tie hanged. To the butler the warden turns "Cupbearer, thou art free, bids thee hasten as his faithful servant to his palace." The interpretation of the two dreams came true. Now, if the chief butler had feared that he might be flung again Into prison and suffer the fate of the baker, what would he have done when he donned the uni form of a royal servant? The same as you would do in a similar condition. Methlnks I might see him as soon as he goes to fits room after the first night's banquet is over. He paces up and down as he says: “I must get Jo- butler on his restoration to office his friends? Five hundred men of Pha raoh’s court already had been plotting for his office and wished he might nev er come hack. In all probability the second cupbearer, who congratulated him, was biting his lips with anger un til the Mood came. “Curse him!” 1 hear him say. "Curse him! Why did he not die and make way for my promotion? Curse him, curse him!" All through the palace could be heard the words, “Curse him. curse him!” from those who wanted his place. Now, my friends, can you and I afford to turn our backs upon old friends and true friends for those who are merely hon oring us in our success for what they get out of us? But I cannot close without just one more thought suggested by my text. > The greatest opportunities of gospel service may come to a man through his past experience if he renounces his sins and remembers his faults. I have ab solutely no more respect for this selfish character of the butler than I have for a Judas or an lago or for a Lady Mac beth or a Jezebel. He was a miserable, contemptible, despicable hireling, with a heart of stone. He would forget any one who had served him. But no sooner did Pharaoh dream bis dream and no one could interpret it than at once the butler thought of Joseph. You • an see him, with flushed cheek and glassy eye, pushing his way into the throne room. You can see him with reverence and sorrow written upon his face. “Ah," he says, "master, 1 have done wrong. I have forgotten my friend Joseph, who is now In prison. Send for him, and he will interpret thy dream." Pharaoh sent for Joseph. Jo seph came. The chief butler at the last moment was able and willing to open the way for the future prime min ister to save a nation from disease and hunger and death. My friends, at this the sixth hour, the ninth hour, the tenth hour, the eleventh hour, of your refu-a! to do your duty to the King of kings and Lord of lords will you not speak 1 the right word? Will you come to Christ and bring your sinful friends t » Christ as the ungrateful butler brought Joseph and Pharaoh lace to face? You arc the father of a home. You have no nursery, for your boys are al ready grown. But they have all grown away from God. Your hair is white. Your time is short. No one can bring those boys to God but you. You know it. They idolize you. They believe you are the one person to lend them, and you alone. O father, confess to God your sins. Confess to your hoys your sins. It is the eleventh hour. It is late, but not too late. Bring your hoys to Christ as the butler brought Joseph and Pharaoh face to face. You can <!o it. Believe me, you can do it. As I speak to father, as I speak to mother, as I speak to wayward friends, thus may 1 he speaking to the stranger within the gates who thinks he has no friend. Stranger, think not thus any more. This is not a strange place. This is God’s house. Perhaps years ago j there was some young man or sum* young woman who might have brought you to Christ if he or she had tried. Rut the opportunity was neglected. 1 You say you arc parted forever. Nay, not forever. You are not parted even now. Let me lead you to the King. Lei me utter the words that another neg- ; Iceted to speak. Lord Jesus Christ, wot ! thou let my lips speak the words that those silent lips should have uttered? Stranger, thou art now no longer in J thy prison of sin. Thou art in the pres ••nee of my King. This is King Jesm. He bids thee look and live. I speak unto thee these same words which Peter spake unto the cripple at | the beautiful gate: “Silver and gold have I none, but such as I have give 1 unto thee. In the name of Jesus rise up and walk.” Wilt thou rise and walk? Then thou art with my Master Then I am the butler who, by the pow er of the holy spirit, bath brought Jo seph and Pharaoh into royal and heav enly companionship. 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