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t Indigestion Causes Catarrh of the Stomach. For many years It has been supposed that Catarrh of the Stomach caused indigestloa and dyspepsia, but the truth is exactly the opposite. Indigestion causes catarrh. Re peated attacks of Indigestion inflames the mucous membranes lining the stomach and exposesthe nerves of the stomach,thus caus ing the glands to secrete mucin instead of the Juices of natural digestion. This is called Catarrh of the Stomach. Kodol Dyspepsia Cure 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. Bottlesonlv. Regular sire $! .00, holding 2H times the trial sire, which sells for 50 cents Prepared by E, C, DeWITT & CO,, Chicago, III. For sale by Cherokee Drug Co., Gaffney; L. D. Allison, Cowpens. PARKER’S HAIR BALSAM Cleanaes and Ivautifiea the hair. Promote* a luxuriant growth. Never Fails to Beatore Gray Hair to its Youthful Color. Curia sculp cli-ct . s & hair tailing. JOc.and 81. at Druggist! Dr. S. H. Griffith, PHVSICAN;-SURGEON - OCULIST Former pupil of the celebra ted|jOculist,3 Dr. Julian J. Chisolm, of Baltimore. Has also taken special post-grad uate course in the Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Hospital of Baltimore. Glasses Fitted.Accurately and Scientifically. J* Office in Cherokee Drug Company. Furniture, Organs, Pianos end Automobiles Gan be«Broufrlit to Life and look fresb and new, by using Liquid Veneer. Cheap, durable, and handy; anyone can apply It succeaa- fully. Call at The "B. I.” Stoie and get a bottle; 10c and SOc. A Happy New Year nro People of Cherokee County. I thank one and all for the patronage bestowed on me, I and beg to say I will re- main at the same place during 1906. Come to see me any time, I will always be glad to see you. Yours truly, Next to Postoffice, S. R. Sllber. “tlSK’* Early Risers The famous little pills* ►aft 4 Advertising is called by some an art. If it be an art it is the art of telling a story simply and convincingly. Nobody knows more about the strong qualities of an establishment than the proprietor who oversees it. Other things being equal, nobody should be ab’e to write more convinc ingly of the articles he of fers for sale. In a store where the employer sells goods side by side with his clerks it is rare that the employer will not be the best salesman. The reason is simple. He knows the goods from A to Z. He probably has pur chased them. He knows his aims. His arguments carry weight because they are convincing. The same arguments pre sented in the same way, with the same enthusiastic spirit, the same knowledge of detail, would attract new customers if presented through the advertising col umns of this paper. If you have not tried it, why not begin? If you have tried it and an Mt aaiha- ied, Wt u* know about it C By Rev. Frank De Witt Talmatfe, D.O. Los Angeles, Cal., Doc. 31.—In this ecruion at tlx* close of the old year the preacher deals with the discontent in the human heart, which often in spires the wish that we might live life over again. The text is Job ii, 4, “All that a man hath will he give for his life.” This question naturally arises on this last Sunday of the year: “Would we like to live our lives over again? Would we like to have the year of UMtO again greet us In the swaddling clothes of a newborn babe? Would we like to make* the plea of the old poet when in rhyme he sang these now familiar lines: Backward, turn backward, oh, time in your flight! Make me a child again Just for tonight. Some of us frankly admit that we would like to live our past years over again. Others just as frankly state that they do not so desire. Hen jam in Franklin belonged to the first group. In one of his letters to his son he wrote thus: “I should have no objection to a repetition of my life from its begin ning. only asking the advantages au thors have In a second edition to cor rect some faults of the first. So 1 might, besides correcting the faults, change some sinister accidents and events of It for others more favorable. Hut. though this were denied, I should still accept the offer.” But perhaps Benjamin Franklin would not have written thus if he had taken all the possibilities into account. I would like to show you In this sermon that God's way of giving only one earthly life to one man is the best way. May God help ns today as we, on this last Sunday of the year, take a retrospect of the years that are gone. No man, in the first place, could take the journey of life over again unless he took with it the dangers that he escaped in his first experience, which might be fatal to him In his second, nor could he be sure of achieving again the successes that he had before. I have been told that when gold was discovered in California every boat In New York harbor that could be brought or rented was drafted Into the service to carry to the western shores those who were possessed by the gold fever. So anxious were men to dig in California hills that they were ready to risk their lives in any old hulk. Some three or four hundred crazy crafts in the year 1850 rounded Cape Horn. Some of these tubs were not fit to sail across Lake Michigan on a summer day. One, I have been told, was nothing but a ferryboat. But, strange to say, all those cranky boats reached California In safety. Not one was wrecked that year. Many an Iron boat with screw propeller has since been destroyed upon the dangerous rocks of South America. But during the first year of the California gold fever not one boat was lost on the voyage. So with us In the Journey of life. We know not bow we have weathered the financial and the do mestic storms, but we have. We know only too well how fierce the cyclones have blown off our Cape lonis. But, having weathered them once and real ized what the dangers were, we have grave doubts whether we should ever be able to weather them again. And this fact is especially empha sized by the awful failures that some of our friends have made in life who were a great deal smarter than we and who were In every way better equipped for the struggle. It Is such a little thing that will turn the scales of suc cess up or down. That little thing always seemed to be on the wrong side of the scales for some of our friends. Did you ever know how Hannibal Hamlin was first defeated for the United States senate? Mr. Hamlin waa a great Joke lover. Away back in the early forties Mr. Hamlin was speaker of the lower house of the Maine legis lature. There was at that time a mem ber of the house whose hair was very thin. This member was very sensitive about his bald head. In h joke Mr. Hamlin leaned over his desk one day and said: “Mr. So-and-so, you have made a mistake in parting your hair. You have got two more hairs on one side than you have on the other." That was a harmless Joke, was it not? Yot that man through that Joke became Mr. Hamlin’s bitter enemy. He said. “Mr. llumlln has Insulted me.” A few years later Hannibal Hamlin was the candidate of his party for the United States senate. All members of the llalne legislature who were of his par ty voted for him, with the exception of this one member who bad a scarcity of hair, about which Hamlin once made a harmless Joke. But the cast ing of that one vote was the moans of keeping Hannibal Hamlin out of the senate for six years. That one vote was necessary to his election. Thus we find that scores and scores of our friends have failed In life, as it were, by the turning of a hair. Further more, as we look back we can see our successes have seemed to come to US by the turning of a hair. Almost were we Hung, not once or twice or thrice, but many times were we almost ruin ed forever. Danger* Baonped. Do you not remember that awful struggle you had to get established In business? Night after night you used to walk the floor. Thau, when yen Just got a foothold and things anmai to be coming your way, do you not remember those years of panic and hard times? Would you like to live those years over again? Your busi ness partner broke down at that time with nervous prostration. He died in an insane asylum. Your own brain was almost crazed. Your hair Is white today from those trials. Would you like to live them over again? How do you know you would come through them next time as successfully as you have done? You know that it seemed a mere chance that your father's old friend came to your rescue at that time or that oil was discovered upon your farm land, which land you could never give away before and which land you were almost tempted to let go to' liquidate the taxes. Would you like to be caught again in that rail road accident? Perhaps you were on a train that was wrecked, in which many passengers were crushed or mu tilated. You do not kuow how it hap pened. You were sitting In the car | reading. Suddenly the engine gave a shriek; the brakes were jammed bard down. Then you awoke in a dazed condition. You heard groanings and prayers being uttered all about you. I You escaped, like Job, by the skin of your teeth. The man who sat within three feet of you was dead or, what is worse, physically mangled for life. If you had to go through that accident | again, would you be physically well and whole as you are today? Oh, no! j Most of us do not wish to run again the risks we ran during our past lives. ; Financial risks, domestic risks, phys ical risks! They nearly destroyed us. We could not be sure that we should have the same chances for success over again if we bad to meet the same dangers. Most of our friends who have been destroyed were wreck ed by a chance trivial as a hair. Most of us. if not all of us, on the other hand, have been saved by that turning »f a hair. Almost were we destroyed, but almost was not quite enough to annihilate us. We fear to meet our past financial and physical and domestic dangers again. We should also tremble when I we look back upon our past spiritual J temptations. It is absurd for some of us to say If we had our lives to live over again we would do any different spiritually from what we did In days that are gone. In all probability we would do just the same as we did In the past If not worse. Why? Because today, with all our experiences and shortcomings, we are going ahead sin ning all the time. Edward Young, the author of the famous “Night Thoughts,” well expresses the Idea when he wrote: At thirty man suspects himself a fool; Knows it at forty; then resolves And re-resolves and dies the same. Does knowledge about the dietary and gastronomic laws make the physi cian careful about wbut be eats and how he eats? Oh, no. Doctors can prescribe all right for their patients. But they are proverbial iconoclasts at all the shrines of health when they ap ply those laws to their own tables. Their doctrine is, “Do not eat ms I do, but eat as I say." Let a convention of physicians assemble, and they will I have the most intellectual papers read before Uiem upon the proper treatment I of dyspepsia. Then they adjourn and : go to the table and eat twice as much , as they ought to eat and eat that un- masticated food in half the time they ought to eat It. Then they will return to their homes and have their meals at Irregular hours. The physician would never let his dyspeptic patients eat as he does. He knows what he 1 ought to do, but ho does It not. Now, if we had to live our lives over again in all probability we would do In refer ence to temptation just as the average physician does In reference to his well known gastronomic laws. We would fall before temptation as be yields to the temptation of the palate. And I for one would be very much surprised If we would turn out again spiritually as well as we have done. Frnlta of Experience. I force myself to this belief for a sec ond reason. We had but little experi ence In the past. But we did have ; some experience and knowledge of sin. We did not fall into sin as u trap Is sprung upon the unwary bird. We walked straight over the precipice of sin with our eyes wide open. For many years you were addicted to drink. You have been In the past a drunkard. You are a reformed one now. You know all the miseries and horrors of a drunkard’s life. But tell me about your first glass. Did you not have Just as much horror of liquor then as you do now? Did you not He awake all night long, feeling that fiery liquor burning its way down your throat and into your heart after your first drink? Yet did that experience lead you to forswear drink? Did you not return to your tempter again and again? You have been a desecrater of the Sabbath day. You can see the aw ful results of what a godless Sabbath !s upon your present life. Why do you not make Sunday a holy day? Did the sin of a broken Sabbath ever appear to you more heinous than when on the first Sabbath you stayed away from church and went with some sinful boys picnicking In the woods? Ah, Christ was right when In the parable of Dives and Lazarus he represented the rich man In hell who had asked him to send Lazarus back to earth to warn his five brothers “lest they come into this plaoe of torment” as receiving the answer from Abraham, “If they hear not, Moses and the prophets neither will they be persuaded though one rose from the dead.” If we deliberately sinned when we first went through life | we should surely deliberately sin if we went through life a second time. In all probability If we had life to live <mr •gain we would not turn out spiritually M well as we have already done. Then consider another faot If we were going to live our lives over again we would have to change time. In stead of being seventy, sixty, fifty or forty years of age we would have to become ten, twenty or thirty years of age. What does that mean? Why, it means when we call back our fathers and mothers and sisters and brothers put a halo about the past, but the past was never as bright or as happy as is the present. You would not live your life over again if in order to do It you had to surrender the blessings now at band. Surrenderlns the Past. Our past lives cannot be lived‘with- and run around again as a curly head- out surrendering the present; but, ed child we would have to give up our thank God, we can live out the future v/ives and husbands and children and with the present and the past to a grandchildren. Would you like to do great extent combined into ^ne. And that? Of course if you Were a little we can combine the present and the girl of eleven years of age you could past in the year which is to come by not have a husband and a lot of ba- guarding against the most awful mis- bies as you have now. Of course if take we made in past years. We have you were a schoolboy you could not I tried to fight the battle of life alone, have a couple of other schoolboys rim- We have tried to conquer in our ning around and calling you “papa” own strength rather than in the and asking you what they should do. strength of the Lord God Almighty, Were you happier when you were who has always promised to sustain young than you are now? I doubt It. us if we would put our trust in him. I doubt If the opportunity of being or- We can now grip a hold of the arm of dered around by your teachers and by the Almighty God if we will. And oh. your parents and by your older broth- , my friends, if we put our trust in ers and sisters were laid alongside of ! Christ do you not believe that with his your present opportunities you would help we could during the coming years say, “Give me back my youth.” I overcome many of the mistakes of the think that you would say: “Let me past? We can make the past, purified stay as I am. I would prefer to be a of Its evils, live and breathe again in man rather than a boy or a wife and ^ the future. We can! Yes, we can! If a mother rather than a little child be- we only enter the new year with ing put to sleep in a truudle bed.” Christ’s help we should be able to undo Would We change Oar Friend*V many of the wrongs of the past, be- We loved and still do love our fa- sides taking advantage of the blessed tbers and mothers and sisters and opportunities of the future, b .*tbers. But do we not also love and Not only that, but still another bless- c.ing to our wives and husbands and ing may be ours. In Christ we may be children? We seem to grow a bigger able to live again during the years of baby about them every day. When we go away from home now we long to get back, just as a little child cries for its mother. How would you like to go back to childhood and live ten, twenty or thirty years before you bad the the coming eternity with those who have made the past years for us so happy. We shall not be at that time like the old lady who lived for many years in the city of Los Angeles. She died there at eighty-four years of age pleasures of domestic life that you in November. 11)05. When she died it have now? Are you sure that you would find a wife as well adapted to you as she who Is now your companion and helper? You know how faithfully she has clung to you. She Is like a sap ling. She knows how to bend before was found out that for the last twen ty-eight years of her life she had con cealed in her attic the dead body of her oldest daughter. This was the body of a young girl of twenty-seven years, who had breathed her last in the far Thousands Have Kidney Trouble and Don’t Know it. the angry tornadoes; but, like the sap- east, and her hotly had been shipped Hug, she never loses her anchorage. When the storm of anger subsides she rights herself and compels you to do the same. I do not believe there Is another woman in all the world who is from Amherst, Mass., to the home of her mother In the far west. For nearly thirty long years this broken hearted mother had clung to the body of her child and carried It wherever she went. more fitted to be the companion of So some of us have been clinging to your life than she has been. If 1 were you I would not ask to go back to childhood and risk losing her. It was bard enough in the beginning to win her. All her school friends were amaz ed to see her choose you when, from a the dead bodies of our loved ones which were buried many, many years ago. But If we will only give our hearts to Christ here and now on the last Sunday of the year Christ will some day give our loved ones alive worldly standpoint, so many suitors back to us. Then we will not have to had laid siege to her heart and hand. Then the babies! How could we give them up, even for a little while? I once read of a little girl who, with her brother, was watching a knife grinder choose between wife and mother or husband and father or brother and child. Then we shall have them all to gether again. Then the past and the present and the future shall be united sharpening some scissors. Her father, ; into one. Then father and mother, quite nearsighted and deaf, turned to the boy and said: “My sou, here is some money. Ask the organ grinder to play another tune.” With that the boy began to laugh. His sister turned upon him a look of sharp rebuke as she answered. “Yes, father, we will.” Then she turned and gave the organ grinder another pair of scissors to sharpen, and the nearsighted and deaf father turned smilingly away, think ing he had made his children happy, whereas, In fact, It was the daughter who had made the father happy. So when we grow older our children have brother and sister, wife and husband, l children and grandchildren shall all as semble together before the throne of God to forever sing the song of Moses and the Lamb. Oh, my friends, will you let your past life live aga'n In Christ? A Joyfnl Ending. Thus in closing this sermon mi the last Sunday of the year I do not feel a sense of sadness such as I have of ten felt upon similar occasions In the past. Whenever I have attended the watch night meetings of previous New Year’s eves the ringing of the bell n habit of covering up our weaknesses, when the clock struck 12 has always We do not kuow why it is, but we are sounded to me like the tolling of a growing more and more dependent up on them every day. Ah, yes, those boys and girls of ours, how much they are to us! The hair may be gray up on our beads, the baud may be fee ble, but we would not have raven , locks and stout limbs If we bad to be separated from them even for a year. ! If we went back to childhood days, could we improve our lot? Could we have any better children than are now blessing our lives? "But,” says some one. “I did not ex actly mean that. What I do mean Is dirge. It has been to me a death- knell. It has been like the tolling of the bell when the hearse enters the cemetery. As the dock struck 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, It seemed to call: “Dead and gone! The years of 1900 and 1901 and 1902 and 1903 and 1904 and 1905 are dead and gone! They are dead and gone forever! Hear it, ye living! Dead and gone forever!” But as I hear the clock striking the midnight hour tonight it will not be a dirge, but a promise of reunion. It will ring: “The year of 1905 Is not this: I would like to live my life over dead and gone forever. Thou shalt again just us it is. I would like to go back into the past and be born In the same cradle and have the same broth ers and sisters. I would like again meet it with Its sanctified joys and sorrows. Thou shalt meet it again smiling with the faces of those who have made thy last twelve months to go to the same schools and marry happy and blessed. Thou shalt meet the same girl and have the same chil- the year of 1905 coming forth to greet dren. I would like to have my life ex- thee. O Christian, with the sacred actly reproduced as It has been In the yoars of 1890 and 1880 and 1870 by its past.” Then, my friend, I want to tell side. All these years shall live again you that your life, If it were to be re- if thou wilt put thy faith in Christ produced just as it was, would be a «ud Lave him live In thee and thou In great disappointment to you. "A him.” My friends, on this last Sun- twlce told tale” is never as interesting day of the year, wilt thou have the the second time as It Is the first time midnight bell toll for thee a dirge or it Is told. Let me illustrate: ring out for thee a gospel triumph? A Twice Told Tale. You can here and now decide if you For many years my father led a very shall Hve over again your happy past, busy life. Pleasure had but little in his Thou blessed past with our hallowed existence. He went from engagement dear ones! Art thou alive? Shall it to engagement, from duty to duty. But come forth to greet us at the day of during these years of work he kept judgment and. purified of all evlj, live one hope ever before him. He wanted with us through all the coming eternl- to go back and live a little while .close ties? It will. Thou year of 1905, go to nature, as be did when a boy. “Oh,” forth and assemble for us the dear said he a thousand times, “If we could years that an* gone. Assemble them only get a big carriage and take all the to greet us when, like Chrisi, we shall children along and go camping through rise from our ascension mount, and the mountains. Then we would picnic time for us shall be no longer except In the woods by day and sleep under as we spend that time with Christ, the shadow of the trees by night.” [Copyright, 190o, by Louis Klopsch.] Well, the time did come when that of- ten planned dream was to come true. Why hu wife Frowuwl. We were spending that summer In the Prlucipal Uotlmun of the Hiawatha mountains of old Virginia. Father put academy is a good story teller, and he all his children Into a wagon, and we does not hesitate to tell one on hlm- How To Find Out. Fill a bottle or common glass with your water and let it stand twenty-four hours; a sediment or set tling indicates an 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 ;t, 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 tl. sizes. You may have a sample bottle of this wonderful discovery and a book that tells* more about it, both sent| absolutely free by mail, kddress Dr. Kilmer & Co., Binghamton, N. Y. When writing men tion reading this generous offer in this paper. 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It ended In a terrific thunder storm, which frightened all the chil dren and I think himself Included. The next day the milk soured; that meant no coffee. While father was eating bin lunch on a log he saw crawling up be tween his legs a snake, lifting Its head to strike. That ended our outing. That self. He confesses to being a little ab- sentminded at times, especially In re gard to his personal appearance. He was called to preach a so.rmon In a German church once. His wife sat di rectly In front of him, and he noticed a frown on her face when he began. He felt for his tie. That was all right. He looked at his shoes. Nothing wrong with them. Careful examination show ed his clothes were all right. Still the ended the beautiful dreams of boyhood frown was there. He did not give up, days. T. De Witt Talmage, the father of a lot of babies, did not want to be T. De Witt Talmage, the farmer’s boy, eating in the woods and sleeping on hard boards. Thus with us. We may but kept up some hard thinking In con nection with his discourse. Finally he found the reason for the frown—he was preaching In English. — Kansas Olty JournaL No business can possibly be * successful that is not adver- ^ Used. ^ This is a sweeping statement, but it is true. There are some 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 liave been handicapped and have not attained the highest possible measure of success. A fertile seed planted in fertile grouna, carefully watered, will thrive end bear fruit A properly organized business, in any inhabited place, well advertised will succeed. The law of growth is as certain and Inexorable in one case as the other.