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I What Do They Cure? Tho al>ovo question is often aske«l con- cnrniiiK l>r. rurce’s two leudiiiK tnetli- cines, "(tolden Medical Discovery” and "Favorite Prescription.” The answer is that "Golden Medical Discovery ” is a most potent alterative or blood-purifier, and tonic or invigorator and acts especially favorably in a cura tive way upon all the mucous lining sur faces. as of the nasal passages, throat, bronchial tul>es. stomach, bowels and bladder, curing a large percent, of catar rhal cases whether the disease affects the nasal passages, the throat, larynx, bron chia, stomach (as catarrhal dyspepsia), bowels (as raucous diarrhea), bladder, uterus or other pelvic organs. Even in the chronic or ulcerative stages of these affections, it is often successful in affect ing cures. The "Favorite Prescription ” is advised for the cure of one class of diseases—those peculiar weaknesses, derangements and irregularities incident to women only. It is a powerful yet gently acting invigorat ing tonic and nervine. For weak worn- out, over-worked women—no matter what has caused the break-down. "Favorite Prescription ” will be found most effective in building up the strength, regulating the womanly functions, subduing pain and bringing about a healthy, vigorous condition of the whole system. A book of particulars wraps each bottle giving the formula;of both medicines and quoting what scores of eminent med ical authors, whose works art; consulted by physicians of all the schools of practice as guides in prescribing, say of each in gredient entering into these medicines. The words of praise bestowed on tho several ingredients entering into Doctor Pierce’s medicines by such w riters should have more weight than any amount of non • professional testimonials, because such men are w riting for the guidance of their medical brethren and know w hereof they speak. Both medicines are non-alcoholic, non secret. and contain no harmful habit forming drugs. being composed of glyceric extracts of the roots of native. American medicinal forest plants They are both sold by dealers in medicine. You can't afford to accept as a substitute for one of these medicines of known composition, any secret nostrum. Dr. Pierce’s Pellets, small, sugar-coated, easy to take as candy, regulate and in vigorate stomach, liver and bowels. Sour Stomach No appetite, loss of strength, nenroue- ness, headache, constipation, bad breath, general debility, sour risings, and catarrh of the stomach are all due to Indigestion. Kodol cures indigestion. This new discov- j ery represents the natural Juices of diges tion as they exist in a healthy stomach, combined with the greatest known tonic f and reconstructive properties. Kodol Dys pepsia Cure does not only cure indigestion and dyspepsia, but this famous remedy | cures all stomach troubles by cleansing, purifying, sweetening and strengthening ! the mucous membranes lining the stomach. Mr. S. S. Ball, of Ravenswood, W, Va., aaya:— *' I was troubled with sour stomach for twenty years. ' Kodol cured me and we are now using It In milk icrW." J Kodol Digests What You Eat. Bottles only. $1.00 Size holding 2V% times the trtal size, which selisfor 50 cents. Prepared by E. C. DeWITT & CO., OHIOAQO. For tale by Cherokee Drug Co., Gaffney; L. D. Allison, Cowpens. SUMMONS FOR RELIEF. Complaint Served. State of South Carolina. Countv of Cherokee. Willhm J. Harris, Christopher C. Harris and Mary E. Clary, plaintiffs, against Wofford Harris, Lavinia Harris. Zulle Harris and Daniel Har ris. defendants, to Wofford Harris, defendant in this action. You are hereby summoned and re quired to answer the complaint in this action, a copy of which is here with served upon you. and to serve a copy of your answer to the said com plaint on the subscriber at their office at Spartanburg. S. C., within twenty days after the service hereof, exclus ive of the day of such service, and if you fail to answer the complaint with in the time aforesaid, the plaintiff in this action will apply to the court for the relief demanded in the complaint. Dated May 3<), 1900. The summons and complaint in this action are filed in the office of the clerk of the court of common pleas for Cherokee county. J. B. Bell. Carlisle & Carlisle. Plaintiff’s Attys. Aug. 24 1 a. w. 6t. Calmage Sermon By Rev. Frank De Witt Talmage, D. D. -'«* Chew RED EYE TOBACCO The Best Chew on Earth, Aug. io-2m-pd. MW I Host Anything And a little of everything is now iieing 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. li. Westrope, Next to Shuiord & LeMaster. Dr. King’s (Me w Life Pills The best in the world. HeWHf* Kit Salve Los Angeles, Cal.. Sept. 9.—Hi this Rermou the preacher makes novel sug gestions showing how we ns communi ties and as individuals may help to im prove the lot of the unfortunate. The text is Deuteronomy xv, 11. “The poor shall never cease out of the land.” Turning to that valuable and sugges tive edition of the Bible called tho Bed Letter Bible, I notice that this passage In Deuteronomy is printed in red, indi cating that it was quoted by our Lord. It is astonishing how many of such passages there are, showing how close a student of the Scriptures Christ was. Guided by this reference in the Bed Letter Bible, I find the circumstances under which Christ quoted the passage. It was at that feast when Mary broke the alabaster box of spikenard over Christ’s feet. Judas said it was waste ful. as the ointment might have been sold and the money given to the poor, but Jesus said there were other oppor tunities of giving to the poor, for, said he, “The poor ye have always with you.” There were poor people during the Mosaic era. There were poor people during all the wealth and the splendor of the Solomonic reign. There were hovels and rags covered bj - the shad ows of the magnificent Grecian tem ples. Poverty and gaunt want went begging for bread during the Roman triumphs, when Christ lived. There are poverty and rags and hunger now, and th re will be poverty and want upon tli ; oi l suffering world until the millenni .1 dawn, when Hie glory of the Lord shall over the earth as the wa ters cover t! * seas. Poverty, haunting poverty, is everywhere. We have today our poor in Europe, Asia, Africa, South America and in North America. We have them upon every Island of the seas, in every town, village and city and farming country. We have an omnipresent poor. During all the centuries from the beginning this burden of poverty has been upon the shoulders of a large proportion of the race, calling for our sympathy and our help. How long will It be before the wisdom of our social philosophers and the commiseration of Christ’s church take up the problem and, searching for the causes of the affiic- tion. find out how to remove them and remedy the misery. I know of no duty more urgent, and if we find out in studying the problem that in some cases poverty is the result of social evils let us go forward in God’s name to eradicate them. May the Holy Spirit help us to preach an appropriate sermon on this Sabbath, following our annual Labor day. First among these evils I place the prenatal influences which help crowd our cities with the ominpresent poor. In this matter let us be brave and truthful. Let us not sea! our lips and be silent on account of a mock modesty. It is better to have an inflammation opened and the wound drained, no matter how repulsive the odor, than to allow the disease to go on festering and eating its way into the vitals. There is many a danger more horrible than the surgeon’s knife. I was mightily impressed with this fact some time :;go. I had always a horror of the surgeon’s knife. I felt that a man had better resort to every thing and anything rather than lie down upon an operating table. But some time ago the wife of one of my dearest church members telephoned me to come down to the hospital at once, as her husband was about to be oper ated on. I jumped on the car and went down and arrived just three minutes after the work had been begun. They had carried the patient into the oper ating room and were then giving him the anaesthetic. I paced up and down the hall, wondering what I should do. I felt that it was a critical and might be a fatal operation. Should I go in or should I not? I had always shunned the sight of the operating table be cause I feared the spectacle of the flowing blood. But as I walked up and down that hall I said to myself: “In all probability this operation will be fatal. My friend will die within a few hours after he comes out of the anaesthetic. Will it not comfort him to know that I stood by his side during his time of trial?” So I said to one of the nurses, “Tell the doctor I should like to come in.” He sent out word, “Come in.” I have thanked God since that I went in. When that ulcer was opened, I saw then as I never realized before that a man should not fear a surgeon’s knife which opened up a dangerous abscess nearly as much as he should fear the abscess which is not opened. Our friend’s life was saved by the narrow- est of margins because he flatly re fused to be operated upon until death was literally clutching him by the throat. A t leer. Now, as there was a deadly disease eating into the vitals of my friend's body, so there is a deadly disease eat ing into the very heart of our social life. Thousands upon thousands of our cradles are Infected by prenatal weak nesses and the evil results of ancestral sins. We must remember that the present generation is not responsible for all its p<xir. For, as most of us hare inherited the physical looks of a father and a mother, a grandfather or a grandmother, so there are hosts of unfortunate children born into the world wbo from the cradle are doomed t« a life of physical Incompetency be cause mentally and physically tainted fruit birth. Bui thju;:h the law of heredity is inexorable, ai: l though our po Himuscs and hospitals are crowded wilh a lot of miserable creatures who are dragging out a suffering, an rn- pullim: existence liec:!i’ k < > they were uoi tiie offspring iff healthy Varciits, and thotigii thousands of men and wo men who arc not inmates of public in stitutions of charity are social para site's or dependents up m others for support tSFough Hie same dire causes, yet the strange fact remains that re spectable and refined society forbids its teachers to discuss these vital ques tions in public lest such a discussion should offend delicate and sensitive ears. Is the offending of delicate cars to stand in the way of tho untold agonies that are cursing childhood because men and women are allowed to marry who have no business to marry? Are Hie wards of our public institutions to be boycotted by ail intelligent men and women because they do not wish to see suffering in its most repulsive forms? Shall we refuse to look at lit tle children, born with curvature of the spine and with diseased blood and with crooked limbs, who, with swollen lips and distorted and malformed fea tures. are looking at us from hundreds of cots-shall we refuse merely be cause these little sufferers have in herited the physical weaknesses of their parents? What right had the parents of these suffering children to marry? Some time ago I attended a church wedding where the bride hob bled up the aisle on a cane. She had an abscess on one limb and was af flicted with tuberculosis besides. She had been an invalid from birth. Her mother laid died of consumption only a few months after the girl was born. And yet the minister of that church ended his service witli the solemn words, “Whom God hath joined to gether let not malt put asunder.” Are we to suppose that God meant such a woman as that to marry and perpet uate misery and suffering in the world? flow to Stop It. “Well,” some one says, “how can you stop men and women who are physical incompetents from marry ing?” By doing what every intelligent physician iu the world is advocating— by making it obligatory upon every man and woman to pass a proper physical examination before they can get from the county a license to marry. In old Sparta it used to lie the custom for the attendants to kill at birth chil dren tiiat were born cripples or weak lings. We cannot do that. Such a :ustom would be abhorrent to our feel ings. But we can do better. We can prevent feeble children from being burn of physically incompetent par ents by refusing to let physically un- *ound men and women marry at all. Water cannot rise higher than its source. A strong branch cannot grow front a withered trunk. Neither can a physically and mentally healthy child descend from unhealthy parents. The first reformation of our social evils should be pathological. It should he a sweeping diagnosis and should start with a sound physical marriage altar. It should extend our immigra tion laws- namely, the laws which al low little children to come into the world among ourselves rather than tin* immigration laws which prevent leprous children and their parents to come front other lands into ours. Dre- natal causes may he just as far reach ing in their social results as postnatal. A child must be born weil in order to live physically well. Marital laws having made it possible for the coining generations to be born well, the next question is almost as important as the first. What are we going to do with the physical and mor al development of Yjiir children after they are born? I am alluding to all the l*oys and girls who are i»orri in the slums and in the congested quarters of our large cities. The problems that confront my neighbor’s children from the socialistic standpoint are just as ini|sirtaiit as those that confront my own. The Street Arab. Did you ever try to put yourself in the place of the street arab who is running \t41d in one of our large cities? Mr. Spurgeon in one of his books told tliis anecdote: He was one day visiting hi* orphan home. While there a little hoy came up ami sat down beside him and said: “Mr. Spurgeon, suppose there was an orphanage and there was a lot of little boys there. And suppose ail those little boy* had lost their fa thers. And suppose once a month their mothers came and their aunts and brought them pennies and apples and oranges and nice things. And suppose there was a little boy that had no mother or aunt or anybody to come and see him. Don't you think some- body ought to give hint sixpence? ’Cause, Mr. Bpttrgeou, that’s me.” I to you wonder that the great Lon don preacher when he beard that little orphan child pleading ids cause so elo quently should have put his Ifciiid in bis pocket ami drawn out a sixpence and given it to the lad who had no father, no mother, no aunt, no uncle, no pen nies, no apples and no anything? Well, as that orphan child pleaded with Charles H». Spurgeon I want the average street arab to plead with you. In the first place, I want him to lake you by the hand and lead you to Ids home. Where is it? I cannot de scribe its loathsomeness end horror in one page, or twenty pages, or fifty pages. If you want a description of some of the homes of the poor, go and read tiie l*ooks of Jacob Biis entitle*] “How the Other Half Lives,” “The Battle With the Slums.” “The I’eril and the Preservation of the Home.” Read Getter ’ WMT::r V > iMt' “In Darkest England and • v tint.” Lei’ Roliert Hunter’s “Poverty.” Rea* Jack London's “The People of the Abyss.” The simple fact la “troth If stranger than fiction.” No tragedy ever written by playwright genius can half depict the horrors which have been described by the pens of Jacob Riis and William Booth. These men are not imaginative writers. They simply describe the filthy hovels which they have visited and tiie nialodors and repulsions amid which they saw chil dren and men and w mien herded. “Supposing your children were born amid such places of filth and dark ness,” says tiie street arab to us as the little orphaned boy spoke to Charles II. Spurgeon, “would you not give him u better home if you could? Well, that helpless child, born in tilili and pover ty, is me. Yes, that child is me.” The I’rnctlcnl QtieMtion. Nbw come the practical questions: Are we as intelligent Americans going to care for our neighbors’ children, born in filth and dirt? Are we going to give them public parks and public playgrounds and free bathing places and free docks, where tin* poor can get a breath of tiie sea air iu the hot sum mer months? Are we going to furnish them model tenement houses, properly ventilated and lighted and with healthy sanitary plumbing? These are vital questions which the Atimrican people must solve. These are not luxuries which the poor are demanding, but necessities. And if the poor do not have these physical necessities, then they will pay us back iu our own coin. For filth and darkness ami vitiated air always breed crime and drunkenness and licentiousness and brutality and sins of all sorts. As the black plagues of Europe always started from the vile, stenchful quarters of the congested cities of the east, so the plagues of de bauchery and ignorance and crime thrive best in Hie filthy quarters of the poor of our large cities, where the sun light cannot get into the homes ami. where the little children have no parks or playgrounds in which they may de velop healthfully, as all children should develop. Furthermore, I was struck with an other fact when reading about tiie phys ical necessities of tiie poor. The pool are not paupers, as we conceive pau pers. The poor are willing and able to pay a just return for their necessities. But tiie trouble is when a man becomes poor then In; becomes helpless. Then the capitalist robs him of the little li« has, however small that all may be Let me illustrate what I mean: Here i» a man sinking in tiie middle of a lake “Help! Help!” he cries. *T am drown ing! Give me help!’’ With that a man rows up and says: “Well, my friend, you are drowning. How much will you give me if I save you?” “Ten dol lars.” “Oh. no; that is not enough. You must give me your all. You must work for me through life, and when you get through I will let you be buried in just the rags you have on your back.” That Is the way the capitalist treats the poor of our large cities. When he sells the poor man his coal, he sells it by tho shovelful, and he sells it at a ruinous price. He charges the poor man three times the price at which he sells it by the ton to the rich man. When he builds the poor man his miserable hovel, the capitalist usually gets :i», 40, do and even 100 per cent on his money invested. A dog or a wild beast would not live in some of the filthy dens in which the poor of New York used to be housed. And yet for every one of those dark cellars and back rooms in which the sunlight never comes the capitalist would charge the most astounding rent and, like a modern Shy lock, demand his pound of flesh nearest to his vic tim’s heart because the poor man could not help himself. As Solomon said long ago, “The destruction of the poor is their poverty.” They are kept poor by being poor. (inod Tenement* Wanted. Has not the state a right to step iu and demand that our capitalists shall not build insanitary tenements for the poor? “Oh, no,” some man says; “that is not right! The capitalist is not in business for his health. He Is not a philanthropist. You cannot demand that he will put up a building which is to be a losing investment.” No, my friends; we do not demand that, but we do demand that the tenement build ing that the capitalist erects shall be one with such modem improvements as the Alfred C, Clark tenements and the Riverside tenements of Brooklyn and the Mills houses of New York. There must be no more such rookeries built as the “Mulberry Bends” and the “Bone Alleys” and the “Cat Alleys” and “Seven Dials” and “Five Points.” And, furthermore, you must rememlier that when we stamp out the had tene ments we do not demand a charity in Its place. Jacob Iliis in one of his books declares that every tenement bouse built on the Mills plan or the Clark plan or the Riverside plan of Brooklyn has given a legitimate return for the investment from the very start. The city jioor are not paupers. They pay enough taxes for their public parks, and they should have them. They pay enough money for decent sanitary homes, and they should have them also. And it is the business of the state to see that the extortioner's hands shou'd not be reaping an extor tioner’s return for the moneys Invest ed. But we must give our poor more than clean cradles and decent homes and sunlight. We must give the chil- dre: of our poor neighbors an educa tion whereby they shall be able to work intelligently with their hands, or else Satan will come in and teach them how to work in another way. In other words, the poor must lie taught how to earn their own living, or else they will learn bow to live upon the moneys some one else has earned. But we must not stop here In our work among the poor. We must give Ih ‘•"nlight. We must open their eyes to see and teach their hands to do. Why a poor man wan'* to live l£ a city Is Inconceivable to me. Where there is work for one man in n large city there are five applicants for the position. In 1888 there were 79,000 deaths in the city of London; 1<»,170 took place iu the public workhouses, 7.113 in public hospitals and 380 in pub lic asylums. This made in all 17,002 paupers who died that year In Lon don. in other words, at least one-fifth of all the people dying in London in one year were dependent upon public charity. The records of other cities are only a little better. There were over 000,000 paupers in 1888 iu England alone. But tod qv one out of every ten persons who iie in New York city Is buried in potter’s field. That means when they d.e they leave not an estate large enough even to pay for Hie pine box which covers them and the hire of the hearse which drags them to their grave nor the fee of the gravedigger who digs Hie hole iu which Hie coffin is lowered. One-tenth of all Hie popu lation which die in New York city are buried iu potter's field. Now, Dr. Bar nard© and General William Booth in telligently recognized these social con ditions, and they sent forth their colo nists by the thousands and the tens of thousands. Thank God, I say, for a Dr. Barnar- do. In the winter nights he roamed about the London streets gathering the raggedest and most forlorn of boys and girls into his public orphanage. But no sooner had he collected them there than lie sent them out by almost every steamer to the farthermost colo nies. There they were adopted. There, amid tiie pure, sweet influence of the country, the boys and the girls of the London slums became the noble Chris tian men and women of the farm and country village. Dr. Barnardo saved the man by colonizing the Liy, while General Booth sent his Salvation Ar my soldiers into the city slums and gathered the men and Hie women to gether and took them out of their siir roundings and placed them upon Hi** farms and saved them also. Thus, my brother, you and I should embrace ev ery means we can find to take a boy or a girl or a man or a woman out of the overcrowded city and send them out to the soil, out into Hie farming re gions. Then we are doing God’s work as Dr. Barnardo did it and William Booth is doing it today. The IfiKtitntlonnl Chnreh. But we must do more than simply colonize our boys and girls in country places. We must carry the institution al church into our poor districts and fight sin on its own ground. The sim ple fact is that many of our churches are goiug to pieces simply because the people do not have enough to do. The congregations listen to sermons, but do not work for Christ. When Jacob Biis started iu bis long ten years’ war to give playgrounds to the children of the congested east and west sides of New York he could not find enougli room for the poor, even though millions of dollars’ worth of buildings were condemned and turned into public playgrounds. Then a happy idea struck him. “Why can we not turn the roofs of our public schools in to playgrounds for children?” “Ab surd,” said the politicians. “Absurd,” said tiie teachers. "Absurd,” said al most every one. But Jacob Riis kept on, and now the roofs of many of those public school buildings have been turned into playgrounds for the scholars. At last the common people have come t) learn that a tnagnificeiD school building is not to lie kept idle all the time with the exception of the few hours when school is in session. The public school buildings are now used for public libraries and public lectures and public concerts and public playgrounds. Why cannot our church learn the same lesson? The churches are gradually deserting the poorer sections of our cities not lie- cause they are not needed there, but because they do not do their duty as they ought to do it. The poor of our large cities need a church building for something more than a place where they shall attend a divine service once or twice on the Sabbath day. They need a church building where men and women can come and find Christian fellowship and help in social inter course. They need a church building whore poor mothers can come and leuve their babies while they them selves go out for a day’s work. They need a church building for an intelli gence office and a dispensary. They need a church building where a man or a woman can go in all times of trouble and always find it a “temple of refuge.” Oh, why do we not as Chris tian people grasp the gospel opportu nity and go back into the poorer sec tions of the city and teach women how to sew and how to keep the babies clean and teach ignorant, tired men how to work as well as how to pray and to sing and to listen to God's word ? I want you to realize that Christ was preaching a practical gospel sermon when he told the Pharisee Hie parable of the good Samaritan. I want you to rememlier that Christ meant just what he said when he took a little child in his lap and said, “It is better for you that a millstone were hanged about your neck and that you were drowned In the midst of tiie sea rather than that you offend one of these littlo ones.” I have tried to show' you that even among the lowest ami the vilest of outcasts you can find some whom you can lead to Christ if you will only go after them. And thus, mj friend, on this I eantiful Christian Sabbath day I invite you to help bridge over the ever widening chasm that is sepa rating the rich man from the poor man and the so called respectable man from the social outcast by throwing across it the strong, broad, central beam of the cross of Christ’s sacrifice. Will you become a brother to the poor In a practical way, as Christ did daring his '••irtldy ministry? 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