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THE DALTON CITIZEN, THURSDAY, NOV. 25, 1909.
Women Suffer Agonies
.T*'® m T Piseased Kidneys
And Most Women Do This Not Knowing the
Tfm* J£ eal * C . au8e of their Condition
*. suffering women
5*^* "* en led to believe that their
mlierv of mind and body is entire
ly due to "ills of their sex.” Usually
the kidneys and bladder are re
sponsible—or largely bo. And In
such eases, the kidneys and blad
der are the organs, that need and
must have attention.
Those torturing, enervating sick
headaches, dragging pains In back,
groin and limbs, bloating and swell-
Mg of the extremities, extreme
nervousness or hysteria, listless
ness and constant tired, worn-out
xeellng—-are almost certain symp
toms of disordered and diseased
kidneys, bladder and liver.
DeWitt's Kidney and Bladder
Pills have, in thousands of cases,
been demonstrated as remarkably
beneficial in all such conditions of
female organism—affording the
most prompt relief and permanent
benefit.
illustration of what these
PlUs win do, Mrs. P. M. Bray of
Columbus, Ga., writes that she was
jery in with kidney trouble, and
that she Is now well—and that
these PWs are what cured her.
They are very pleasant to take,
•■“.eep k 1 . no case, produce any
celeterious effects upon the system
-aa syrupy, alcoholic, liquid prep
arations are apt to do.
R C. DeWltt & Co., Chicago,
want every man and woman who
have the least suspicion that they
are afflicted with kidney and blad
der diseases to at once write the
and a trial box of these PUls
be sent free by return man
Paid. Do it to-day,
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FOR THOSE WHO
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Floor Coverings of ail kinds
Flattings, Squares, Rugs, -
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Chiffo=Robes, Trunks, Suit
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of thrift. ,
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Proverbs. 29:18—“Where there is no
vision the people perish.”
A literal translation of this wise say
ing of the wise man of old into the
language of today will more clearly
convey the truth enshrined in this epi-
gramatic statement: “Where there is
no prophetic voice, no law and leader,
no alluring ideal, the people cast off
restraint.” This proverb expresses a
great law of progress and ascendancy.
It is the compelling force of a great
ideal that holds a people or race on
its steady course, and prompts their
ments. t
The Value of an Ideal.
This materialistic age in which we
are living may set its seal of disap
proval upon visions. The idealist may
be put under the bah by this practical
age, and the word “visionary” may he
applied as a term of reproach. Our
scientists may account fcor shadows, re
flections and mirages, but give us no
formular for visions. Yet no student
of the records of the progress of the
race and the climb of man will deny
that the whole civilized world owes a
debt to visions. We have traveled the
long way from the tent of skins and
hark to the marble palace; from the
wheelbarrow to the aeroplane; from
the whistler’s note to the deep-toned
organ; from the bloody altars to sa
cred temples and grand cathedrals, be
cause there have been among us “old
men who have dreamed dreams and
young men who have seen visions.”
Our dreamers among us have become
our poets, authors and inventors, while
the seers of visions have become our
mighty prophets and heroic reformers.
The record is written large and the
catalog is long of those who have held
the race on its upward course and
progress by their insight and far-sight
of better things attainable.
Paul saw a vision—a far-off goal, ap
peared to his telescopic eye. He de
clared it, lived for it, and out of it
came the sentiments of liberty, the
leaven of Christianity and the dignity
of man that has changed the face of
civilization.
Constantine, opposed by Maxentius
entrenched at Rome, saw a vision. It
was in the sign of a cross, and on it
this motto of success: “In hoc signo
vinces.” He obeyed that vision and he
conquered. But for that vision the
world would probably have had no
Constantine, and the tide of Chris
tianity and its blessings would have
been set hack a thousand years.
Galileo had a vision. It was not
of stars and _ planets marching In
brilliant array around the earth, but
of the earth meekly plodding her way
around the sun and stars. They called
him a madman and a heritic, and
forced him to recant under the tor
tures which his frail flesh could not
endure, but even in that hour, when
his courage was in eclipse, he was
heard to whisper: “It moves; it
moves.” But for his vision there would
have been no telescope, no modern sci
ence of astronomy for centuries.
Savanarola in his cloistered cell had
a vision. It was not of wealth, of
miters or crowns, but a vision og duty,
of humanity. And he dared to face the
fury of kings, the hatred of priests and
the entrenched evils of Florence, be
cause he dimly saw the dawn of the
rights of men, and the consent of the
governed as the only rightful claim of
a crown.
What more shall I say? Time for
bids us to speak of Luther, who with
a vision of the crown rights of Jesus
Christ and of a church free from the
corruptions of priestcraft and vice,
looked full In the face a church strong
in the armies of a hundred states,
proud in the history of a thousand
years and rich in the splendors of un
numbered fables, and with defiance
pulled down the prison doors and bade
men henceforth face the future and
not the past.
Or of Columbus, who had a vision
that Europe was not all, and defying
the od lying inscription of the pil
lars of Hercules, “ne.plus ultra,” sailed
forth, and God crowned his sublime
faith with the matchless trophy of the
American continent.
The measure of every man or people
in character or in achievement is
found in their vision. The success of
the poet, the scientist and the inventor
is the measure of their vision. The
Christian must be measured by his
ideal. His success and progress de
pends on “counting not himself yet to
(have apprehended, but pressing on
toward the mark of his high calling
in Jesus Christ.”
The students of Plato declared that
their master had three eyes. He had
one eye to look out upon the physical
world, one to look within himself and
see the facts of consciotlsness^ and an
other to look up and behold eternal
realities. So man must have three
eyes, a triple power of vision. He must
have an eye with which he can look
out upon the world about him and see
the affairs of the physical universe.
He must.have an eye with which he
can look within himself and behold the
facts of his own consciousness. And
he must have an eye .with which he
can look up and behold divine realities.
It is when this last eye becomes dim,
when the vision of the higher and
better things become obscured and
lost, that a people begin to "cast off
restraint,” to disintegrate, and ulti
mately perish. In all the cemeteries
of dead nations and extinct races; in all
the charnel houses of national glory,
and in the history of effete civiliza
tions we behold on the sad monuments
that mark their.fall the testimony that
proves the assertion, that the people
who lose sight of God, soul, law, im
mortality, judgment and eternity shall
eventually cast off all restraint and
perish by their own folly.
It is nothing, short of a calamity for
a man or a people to lose sight of the
great ideals. The obscuration of indi
vidual or national vision is the certain
precurser of tragic failure.
Atmospheres.
In the natural world the eye’s vision
is shortened or lengthened by the pre
vailing conditions of the atmosphere.
In the mists that often hang heavy
over the face of the earth the nearer
objects are magnified and distorted,
while the distant objects are obscured
from view.
It is so' in the moral, mental and
spiritual realm. The vision of the
mind, conscience and soul are depen
dent upon the moral and spiritual con
ditions of the atmosphere of life. In
the mists that surround them men
loose sight s of the distant and higher
objects, and see^ only the .distorted pro
portions of the ^temporal and near ob
jects of pursuit- x
Commercialism.
In this materialistic age a golden
mist has settled down upon us.
Through this gilded vapor of our mod
em life how large does wealth appear!
What happiness it brings!" What ex
emptions it purchases from sorrow and
trouble! How it surrounds its posses
sor with dignity- and ease! This gol
den mist has so distorted our moderrn
view that the test of every question
has become, “Does it pay?” It has
so magnified arid gilded the modem
Molock of richest that many are unable
tp see beyond the “almighty dollar” a
higher and better object of pursuit.
Stanley tells uS that he found a tribe
living in the thick jungles of Africa
where the sun’s fays never penetrated.
In yain he tried to persuade them that
outside their gloomy woods there were
sunshine and beautiful fiields. “No,”
they said, “nothing but trees, trees,
trees!” So in this golden wilderness
we find men lost in the pursuit of
wealth; in an atmosphere where the
sunshine of love riever penetrates. And
when we tell them that outside of their
miserable existence there is a better
life of sunshine and happiness, they
cry: “No, no; gold, gold, gold!”
Oh, if men saw clearly the harden
ing effects and the devouring influence
upon the soul arid character of the
inordiaaJekIgve ; b^^iif,“they would not
pursue wealth at the expense of heart
and character. This standard takes
out of life all that makes life noble and
lofty.
Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a
. prey,
Where wealth accumulates and men
decay.”
When Saladin, the Great, lay upon
his deathbed he ordered that his wind
ing-sheet be attached to flag staff
and that it he carried through the
streets of his city, while a herald pro
claimed: “This is all that remains of
Saladin, the Great, of all his glory!
Today we can go back over the his
tory of our race and pick up the
broken crowns, the ragged garments of
vice, the ruined and blasted characters
of every people who have pursued the
phantom of gold: We can dip down
into hell and bring up the scorched
garments of Dives, and out of these
we can weave the winding-sheet in
which every gold-loving and wealth
worshipping people shall be buried.
And this emblem of the deadliness of
a gilded atmosphere I would lift up in
your presence today, while the deep
thunder tones of the challenge rolls
from the throne of the Eternal: “What
shall it profit a man if he gain the
whole world and lose his own soul?’
Irreverence.
The atmosphere of irreverence that
has settled down upon our modem day
is fast obscuring the true value, dig
nity and worth of sacred things. This
brazen spirit is iconoclastic. It is de
structive of ideals. It is insolent and
respects nothing. “Oblivious to what
it lacks sense to see, it scorns that
which it has not the character to ap
preciate.” Reverence is the basis of
all lofty character. v The man who
lacks it can never be truly great. The
community that is wanting In it can
never make permanent progress.
What ravages this evil spirit is mak
ing today upon the noble sentiments
that have clustered * about, and with
which , the past has regarded the old,
the pure and the high. There is no
forbidden mount that this spirit will
not touch, and no sacred altar it will
not pull down. That beautiful grace
of reverence for God and sacred
things, for law and govemihent, for
great institutions and noble traditions,
for decency and purity is fast vanish
ing away. Even that chivalrous rev
erence for womanhood is fast becom
ing a lost chord in the music of life.
If this spirit continues, if this ten-
den'cy increases, we as a people shall
receive the retribution curse which is
“the certain fate of all degenerate
scions of a noble stock—the sure Ne
mesis of those who are false to their
fathers and trajtors to their tradi
tions.’’
Unbelief.
There is a mist of fog and doubt that
is hanging low in the atmosphere of
human society today that is blinding
the eyes, of men and obscuring their
vision of the realities of life.
In this foggy atmosphere no God ap
pears. Wherever it prevails men see
no further than the horizon of their
own little existence. God and His
claims are obscured. They live on in
defiance and in contempt of His ex
istence and demands.
This mist so enlarges the nearer ob
jects, so distorts the evidence of an
Almighty hand appearing in the uni
verse, that with many there is no God.
In this atmosphere the immortality of
the soul is obscured. It so magnifies
this world that the other world can
not be seen. Wrapped in this deadly
vapor men disbelieve in the existence
of another life and deny the eternal
duration of the souL It reduces man
to the brute creation and makes the
grave the goal and destiny of life. And
thus, shortsighted, with the vision that
should look out beyond the confines
of this little existence obscured by
the smoke of the pit, men see only
the glamor that unbelief throws about
the straws which they gather here
with their mud-rakes, while the bless
ings of immortality are hidden from
their view.
In this atmosphere there is no judg
ment throne visible. It blinds men to
the fact that ( they must give an ac
count for the deeds done In the hody.
It conceals the hour when all wrongs
shall be righted. It makes them heed
less’of the awful day when all flesh
shall be called before the throne.
Saddest of all effects of this atmos
phere is that it blinds men to the
shining of the “Sun of Righteousness”
and to the opportunity of accepting
Him. It was this black mist that
blinded the eyes of the people, when
Pilate said to them: “Behold the
man!” It blinded the eyes of Jerusa
lem, and she recognized not the Mes
siah in the carpenter’s son, and be
hold they are left desolate! It was
the golden mist that blinded the eyes
of the rich young ruler and sent him
away in sorrow. It sent Judas out into
the awful night of darkness and de
spair. It was the lack of vision, ob
scured by irreverence, that made
Pilate give Him up to be ,spit upon
and to die. It is the same atmosphere
today that obscures man’s vision of
Christ. It is materialism,, irreverence
and doubt that hang like a cloud about
our lives today, blinding our eyes to
God and grace, to the grave and judg
ment, to life and immortality. These
three darken every star in heaven’s
sky; obscure every rung in heaven’s
ladder, and extinguish every ray of
hope in the human heart.
The people who lose sight of'God, of
the soul, of judgment, of eternity, cast
off restraint and perish in unbridled
shame.
When any man loses sight of the
higher attainments his life will dwindle
to simply a thing of days and months
and years. His life will he narrowed
down to a matter of food, clothing and
cheap pleasure. - Hie horizon will be
bounded by selling, buying and ac
cumulating. His life will become a
miser’s hovel, when it might have been
a king’s palace; his living a beggarly
allowance, when it might have been a
princely gift.
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You most likely will want a new Hat for
Thanksgiving
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If you do certainly you will prefer a
KNOX
KNOX Hats appeal to men of fashion for fashion’s
sake, and to others for economy’s sake, $3-00 &$5.00.
THE‘STORE
LITTLE PRICES
GAME AND FUR WANTED.
I will pay the highest cash price
for game of all kind, and for fur, such
as mink, muskrat, etc.
Stone Produce Company, Dalton, Ga.
Forced Into Exile.
Wm. Upchurch, of Glen Oak, Okla.,
was an exile from home. Mountain
air, he thought, would core a frightful
lungracking cough that had defied all
remedies for two years. After six
months he returned, death dogging his
steps. “Then I began to use Dr.
King’s' New Discovery,” he writes,
“and after taking six bottles I am as
well as ever.” It saves thousands
yearly from desperate lung diseases.
Infallible for Coughs and Colds, it dis
pels Hoafseness and Sore Throats.
Cures Grip, Bronchitis, Hemorrhages,
Asthma, Croup, Whooping Cough. 50c
and $1.00; trial bottle free; guaranteed
by Fincher & Nichols.
Will pay ! cent a pound for
good, clean cotton rags.
The A. J. Showalter Co.
/ Dalton, Ga.
Half Soles
2 pairs 10c Half Soles for 15c.
another item on which we save
you 25 per cent.
DHX3Z
State of Ohio, City of Toledo, Lucas
County—ss.
Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he
is senior partner of the firm of F. J.
Cheney & Co., doing business in the
City of Toledo, County and State afore
said, and that said firm will pay the
sum 'of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS
for each and every case of Catarrh
that cannot be cured by the use of
Hall’s Catarrh Cure.
FRANK J. CHENEY.
Sworn to before me and subscribed
in my presence, this 6th day of Decem
ber, A. D. i886.
(SeaL) . A. W. GLEASON,
Notary Public.
Hall’s Catarrh Cure is taken intern
ally, .and acts directly on the blood
and mucous surfaces of the system.
Send for testimonials free.
F. J. CHENEY & GO., Toledo, O.
Sold by all Druggists, 75c.
Take Hall’s Family Pills for consti
pation.
Lay in your year’s supply of corn at
CapL McWilliams’ sale Dec. 8 and 9.
Weather-proof Roofing.—Farrar Lum
ber Company.
Go Over the
Figures With Us.
15 Bales of Cotton, average
475 lbs. each . . . 7,125 lbs.
3 men, average 150 lbs. each 450
Large Frame 300
Total ...... 7,875 “
Yes, we mean to say that the above
load was hauled about the streets of Dal
ton by one of the local warehouse men.
Think of it, 7,875 pounds and the wagon
was a 3-inch
STUDEBAKER
of
course.
Cold weather is surely here and you
should get one of our Durham Buggies.
They’re fine to knock off the wind and
rain when equipped with storm curtains
and one of our 5-A lap robes.
We’ll look for you.
The Dalton Buggy Co.
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