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ev 4,f The BeiUtifuI Spring As we now look out on the forests we see all the old, dead leaves have fallen and thei r places have been filled with new, tender, green leaves. The orchards are in full bloom and everything has a new appearance. Such a time has a tendency to make us want to leave off the old winter garments and replace them with new, cool ones that make us feel that we are in pace with the season. We are now prepared to fill our needs with one of the best and most up-to-<fate lines of )ry Goods ever shown by this store. When in town call on us, or make a special trip to inspect our line. We have straw hats for the boys, girls, men and women. Have just receive(d a large shipment of American ,Beauty Corsets, 50, 75, 1.00 and 1.50. New lot of men's and boys' Clothing. Big ot of men's and boys' high-grade Overalls. Come to see us. i-rai Brothers Company \Pickens, S. C. +-0 -- - +-~~ - 4-&-rt+o -+--+ +. + 44 -1--- --!--:----1-- --+ THE GREAT BLOOD PURIFIER. A successful remedy for Rheumatism, Blood Poison and all .Blood Diseases. At all Druggists $1.00. - F. V. LIPPMAN CO.. Savannah. Ga. 4 FULL UNE OF Spring Goods of AII Kinds A nice line of Men's Hats, both straw and fur. A new lot of Ladies' Hats to go at right price. A nice line of Oxfords for Ladies, Children and Men. A full line of Clothing for both Men and Boys. Highest price paid for A all kinds of Produce. Yours for trade J. W. HENDRICKS Great Opportunity FOR BOVS AND GIRLS PlERRY BUSINESS COL LEGE is making a very low rate Fof tuition to ambitious boys and girls who desire a reaI -~~ edulcation in one of the best institutions to be found in the South. Thousands of our graduates have become inde pendent through our superior instructionl. A Perry College graduate never has to hang around, kill time and wait for foxework. We guarantee positions under reasonable con ditions. We save each student at least $12 on books alone, and give them the best training possible. Our teachers of the very highest grade. We give Individual instructic n and * no time is lost by our pupils, but they are advanced as fast as possible. Our College is of 36 years' stanaine and we are justly proud of our record. It will pay you to investi gate at once. For particular ; address Perry Business College, Grand Opera G ll S CHouse Greenville, S. C. Building Friends of Pickens 'County FOR. twenty-three years we have done business to. gether, I have tried to give you good service and Full Value for Your Money. I have enjoyed a good patronage from you and appreciate it, and ask a con tinuance of same. My stock is full and complete with all seasonable Dry Goods, Underwear, Hosiery and hoes, Blankets. etc., at as low prices as dependable ods can be sold. We Do Not Talk War. Europe ke care ot its war. -We war against High Prices to give values and service. Notwithstanding Shoes have advanced, we still sell at Old ur .Underwear and Blankets will keep All goods as advertised. .-. I pay ,so when there are bargains on the nd Sell Them. End~ A ROLINA . CKJ~iNs. S. C. Trespah ndtlin Depost1 loth for saleat tbl e oftco~. S N K MoF ALI ler (By . 0. SELiAR0S, Aotint Director ot Sunday School Course, The Moody Bible Institute, Chicago, IlL) LESSON FOR MAY 2 SAUL TRIES TO KILL DAVID. LESSON TEXT-I Samuel 19:1.12. GOLDEN TEXT-whoso putteth his 22t fi the Lord shall be safe,-Prov. Although anointed by Samuel, vic torious in arms and promoted at court, David was many years in reaching his throne. At first both court and army did him honor (ch. 18:2), yet he con ducted himself with great modesty (18:18, 23). Ile also obeyed the king explicitly though he knew fully that he was the God-appointed successor of Saul. Escapes as wonderful and as providential as David's occur in the lives of most of us if we could but know them. I. David and Jonathin, vv. 1-3. The story of the love of David and Jona than is a classic. With such close family relations and a son-in-law so successful at arms' it is strange that Saul's anger should vent itself upon David. At first Saul was much at tached to David but the admiration of the people for David aroused his jeal ousy, (ch. 18:6) and jealousy is pecu liarly a soldier's disease. The slave of jealousy never has peace. As sin and disobedience developed in his life Saul became subject to fits of insane rage during one of which, as David played upon his harp and endeavored to-quiet 'the monarch's spirit, he hurled a javelin, which served as his scepter, at the harpist (ch. 19:10). Saul felt that David was divinely protected and he knew that God had departed from his own life (15:23; 16:14). Saul did not keep his grief and rage to himself for Jonathan and the nation alike knew all about it. It. Saul and Jonathan, vv. 4-7. It took courage and self-sacrifice on Jonathan's part to speak on behalf of David: Prudence and principle are combined in Jonathan's plea. Those who envy include in their hate and anger all who speak kindly in behalf of their enemy. But Jonathan's argu ment (vv. 4, 5) is unanswerable. David had not sinned against Saul; it was Jehovah who "wrought a great salvation for all Israel" 'on the day David took his life in his hand and overcame Goliath. Jonathan pleads for God as well as for his friend. le called to Saul's memory his former joy at seeing Jehovah's victory through David and for the time being Saul was persuaded (v. 6) and made another of those impetuous promises which proved so fleeting. Ushered by Jonathan (Matt. 5:9) David returned to Saul's presence, entered once more upon the discharge of his duties and desisted only when he saw that his presence only aggravated the king and that he was uselessly exposing his life in Saul's presence. David was faith ful to God and to God's anointed king, fii. Michal and David, vv. 8-12. Saul's hatred was too deep to be per manently overcome. David went out and won a great victory over the Phi listines and as he followed his courtly duty, Saul burst out with a fresh at tack (vv. 8, 9). David had married Michal when about twenty-one years of age and Saul's attacks occurred dur ing the next three years. The evil spirit mentioned was a demon (18:10; Acts 16:16-18; Mark 1:23-26), a mes senger of Satan permitted by God for Saul's discipline (II Cor. 12:7). God permits evil to come upon men not to tempt them-solicit them to do wrong -but to bring them to repentance or to refine them as pure gold. Thus evil may be said to do God's work (ch. 4:1) "to be sent from Jehovah." IV. Summary. All who envy ajre murderers at heart (Matt, 27:18; I John 3:12, 15). The present day murderers hurl their javelins of slander, lying and vituperation against the reputa tion of the men whom they hate. Or else they hurl unfair and unjust busi ness methods at others that they may perpetuate their power or else build themselves up upon the ruins of those whom they envy. Saul missed David but he was no less a murderer. Satan always overshoots the mark when he assails one of God's anointed, chosen ones. Saul could not harm David though he wished to ever so muc11 (Ps. 37:32, 33: Isa. 54:17?; Luke 4:30; 10:39). Saul's hatred stopped not even1 at the threshold of David's house bul invaded the sacred precincts of his home. Envy is blind, it assails all that a man has, spares none witti whom he is connected and colors ev ery act and relation of life even to the relations of father and child. Sau was frustrated by his own children Jonathan and Michal. David's dangei was imminent, hence his speedy es cape. Men are strong in so far as thel see God's purpose and discipline Jr ~their lives. Saul's experience at Naloth (vv. 23 24) was a response of his emotiona nature to a religious appeal, anothe1 time when God was waiting to bi gracious. Divested of his armor and oute: robes Saul lay in a trance, overcomi by the power of him who turns thi he~arte of men as rivers of water. The wrath of man is made to praisl him, the life of the prophet is pre secrved and likewise the life of hil servant David. a'How's This? We offer One Hundred Dollars Re ward for any case of Catarrh tha cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrl Cure. F. 3. CHE~NEY & CO.. Toledo, 0. We. the undersigned, have known F. Cheney for the last 15 years, and beliov him perlectly honlorable in all busine. transactions and financially ablo to earr out any obligations made by his firm. NATIONAL BANK OF COMMERCE, Toledo,( ~!l's atarrli Cure is taken internall: Mo direetly unn the bloo and am ' ent ce o to~jaei. e byalt6s ttO 6 THE CHURCH AS ASOCIALGENTER A Broader Sphere for Religion-New Field for the Rural Church. By Peter Radford Lecturer National Farmers' Union The social duty of the rural church is as much a part of its obligations as its spiritual side. In expressing its social interest, the modern rural church does not hesitate to claim that it is expressing a true religious in stinct and the old-time idea that the social instincts should be starved while the spiritual nature was over fed with solid theological food, is fast giving way to a broader interpreta tion of the functions of true religion. We take our place in the succession of those who have sought to make the world a fit habitation for the children of man when we seek to study and understand the social duty of the rural church. The true christian re ligion is essentially social-its tenets of faith being love and brotherhood and fellowship. While following after righteousness, the church must chal lenge and seek to reform that social order in which moral life is ex pressed. While cherishing ideals of service, the rural church which cot tains the fullest measure of success Is that which enriches as many lives as it can touch, and in no way can the church come in as close contact with its members as through tho avenue of social functions. The country town -and the rural community need a social center. The chumh need offer no apology for its ambition to fill this need in the com munity, if an understanding of its mission brings this purpose into clear consciousness. The structure of a rural community is exceedingly com plex; it contains many social groups, each of which has its own center, but there are many localities which have but one church and although such a church cannot command the inter est of all the people, it is relieved from the embarrassment of religiously divided communities. Social Needs Imperative. The average country boy, and girl have very little opportunity for real enjoyment, and have, as a rule, a vague conception of the meaning of pleasure and recreation. It is to fill this void in the lives of country youth that the rural church has risen to the neoessity of providing entertain ment, as well as instruction, to its membership among the young. The children and young people of the church should meet when religion is not even mentioned. It has been found safest for them to meet fre quently under the direction and care of the church. To send them into the world wvith no social training exposes them to grave perils and to try to keep them out of the world with no social privileges is sheer folly. There is a social nature to both old and young, but the social requirements of the young are Imperative. The church must provide directly or indirectly some modern equivalent for the husk ing bee, the quilting bee and the sing ing schools of the old days. In one way or another the social instincts of our young people must have oppor tunity for expression, which may take the form of clubs,- parties, pic nics or other forms of amusement. One thing is certain, and that is that the church cannot take away the dance, the card party and the theatre unless it can offer in its place a sat isfying substitute in the form of more pleasing recreation. Universal instinct for Play. In providing for enjoyment the church uses one of the greatest meth ods by which human society has de veloped. Association is never secure until it is pleasurable; in play the in stinctive aversion of one person for another is overcome and the social mood is fostered. Play is the chief educational agency in rural commun ities and in the play-day of human childhood social sympathy and social habits are evolved. As individuals come together in social gatherings, their viewpoint is broadened, their ideals are lifted and finally they con stitute a cultured and refIned society. It is plain, therefore, that the church wvhich aims at a perfected so ciety must use in a refined and ex alted wvay the essential factors in socival evolution and must avail itself of the universal instinct for play. If the church surrounds itself with social functions which appeal to the young among its membership, it will fill a largo part of the lamentable gap in rural pleasures and will reap the richest rewvard by promotinig a higher and better typo of manhood and womanhood. Preservative Fluids In Woods, Timber engineers who inject creo sote and other substances into wood to retard decay long ago made lists of Sspecies that were hard to treat, and others which were easy. The preservative fluids, we are told, 0 penetrate certain woods to a consid *erable depth when moderate pressure is applied; while others are almost impervious, no matter how great the ). pressure. Those hardest to penetrate ,. by preservative fluids are those Deat .eupplied with tyjldt6 '%' ' ' K .1 or Printing man In South tlt pay any portior o his past's salary. Near the end of the year a#3 officer. of the church *Mitad upon him-and made remarks tO the effect that the Lord loves- a cheerful giver. The man flatly refused to be cheerful. "I won't pav a cent," he declared stoutly. "Not a cent. T h a t. preacher hasn't been to see me this year." When the matter was report ed, as such matters are, the preacher as preachers will, felt that he had fallen short of the whole schedule of his duty, and took the blame upon himself. But he determined that should he be spared for another year's work, he would call often upon the offended brother, who thus yearned for his society. Accordingly he made it con venient to call four times during the following year. Still the man paid nothing, and at the close of the year the officer of the church waited upon him again. "Not a cent," he declared. "Not a cent. I've boarded that preacher and his ,horse enough to make up my share of his salary." And the moral is, of course, that it's a long, long way to Tipperary, and the conductor can't collect fare unless your heart's right.-Fountain I n n Tribune. H m*: vou a telephone in your house? If so, call the Pickens Hardware and Grocery Co. when in nced of anything for the table. If not, send the children. We assure you that they will receive our usual and prompt attention the same as a grown person. Phone 30. SAVE THE HORSE If you could take out an in surance policy that would guarantee your horse or mule against colic for fifty cents you would hurry to do' so, would'nt you? Dr. Boyd's Sure Pop Colic Remedy is colic insurance inl drop form. 60 drops instantly relieves sever est case. P'rice 50c and $1 a bottle. No drenching. Results guaran teed or money refunded by For Sale by Pickens Drug Co., PiknS. C. 1 EVE 4,, 4us. The peopie +, away more thai 4But we mean tc E' know we have t we can offer th< people who like 4possible. We ( 4, DRESS GC 4,Beautiful crepe cloth 100 + Riplette cloth for matking + es, that sold for 15c yard, 4 at10c yd. Sever al c'olors of ratir 4,skirts. '25c quality for sale t +, SUITS AND E 4,Beautiful line of new 4, Pricea $7.98 to $15.00. 4,Pretty line ladies' wool 4,now shades and styles. 4,$5.00. Edwin +, EASLE always of debt, never if %. A hell all t~ Ii~ sou 'he overt ~)~ of the let tention tote in war and ~alw gst Is the . be ingf te tho commencement o the end of trouble. Wihut I there would be no heat, no life 'and no.heaven. It is the!genter of honesty, makes love perfot and with it there could be no editors,'devils or news.-Fourth Estate. We ask our readers to read carefully every advertisement in this paper. Our merchants have. something to say or they wouldn't be talking. And what they say may mean something for you. Our Neighb A S AORPHA AHIS WEEA cam ingratPL er . satsfiedwith hAg w a a rice baran g to make their mone uote you a few pric ~ODS , 124c, 15c yd. We carry tl found inl this summer dress- carry shoes i for this week line before goi oc for makingC his week at 12Ac We are clos _____________ hence, are off in this depart KIRTS "t) Spring Suits. RI T1'wo big bo: Eight cakee 3kirts in all the Six cakes l( Prices $2.98 to Grandmas we T wo bi~ pol L. Bolt & C e Store That's Always Y, SOUTH CA1 E X off'. Anii y OtuN ~4 eb nswheo dbe entirely rel prGlasses SWe have hundreds cases that bear us o this, statement. Glasses That The ri Globe OtTI Company Masonic Temple GREEN VILLE,.&, C. A. A. ODOM, A. H. 80HA DE, Pres. Sec. aDA Treas. CONSULTING 0PTM1TISTS or's Rooster . f SA'{, M SMT=R, CAM V' CrIVK- A POOP- MANU A 'htNIAE T' Gr SF 4= T pi C.IOus). LYA I AILA>6%p oT .-' cWoY'3 H~i"- A t SUC.cess A-T HIGH TDE-o eaorr A N. S-YLUM TER: ving wesek with owds and went , >ods they bought. en better. We d we know that + Mill interest the * y go as far as es below: SHOES 1e biggest line of Shoes to be part of the country. We > to $5.50. Look ov er our nig elsewhere. LOT HING ing out our men's Clothing 4 ering some unusual bargains rnent. Boys' suits $1.69 and EAD THIS res Searchlight matches 5c. best laundry soap for 25c. undry soap and two boxes Lshing powder for 25c. md L axes best soda made 5c. omp any. ROLiNA