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I I J. F. GARRETT, i Dentist. Office Over- The Battery. ’Phone 82' DIR. W. K. GUNTER, i ; i t 'r i is r Office in Star Theatre Building. Phonk No. 20. Crown and Bridge Work’a specialty. Dr. D. P.i THOMSON, Dentist. ^’■Oftice over Cherokee Druj; Co. William S. Hall, J k. .iames A. Willis. , HALL & WILLIS, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. 8TAK THEATRE BLDO. <_> a i- r r- r r>i r-c V', ». o. Notary Public tnlofBee. Prompt attention ITlven to all business. C. Eskridge B 4 U ^Haveyour ItlackHiiiithliiK; lijne. , —^ All Smithing, Iron^andjWood Work done in.tirst-class style and.at reasonable rates. -vsomZU'wHUucr* t,' (Fortenberry’s Old Stand). FOR Building and Plastering Lime, Coal, and Plaster Hair, Plaster Paris, Shingles, Portland Cement. Dynamite, Blasting Powder, F'use and Dynamite Caps, call on LIMESTONE SPRINGS LIME WORKS. CARROLL & CO., Lessees. Telephone 57. NOTICE^. Wo are anxious to increase the sale of our nursery stock and we have arranged with the nursery to furnish better stock at cheaper prices than was ever known before. It will pay you t > see us or call on us at I. M. Peeler’s store before buying. - 1 Jno. A. PaCLerson'and D:_Z. NewLon, Agent Startowii Nursery Cu. ->t. Dr. S. H. Griffith, PHYSICAN - SURGEON,- OCULIST. Former pupil of the celebra ted ^Oculist, Dr. Julian |J. Chisolm, ol Baltimore. Has also taken special post-grad uate course in the Kye, Ear, Nose and Throat Hospital of Baltimore. Glasses Fitted Accurately and Scientifically. *4 * <2* (gyOffice in Cherokee Drug Co., B’ldg. Winthrop College Scholarship :& Entrance Examination. -- The examination for the award of va cant scholarships in Winthrop College and for the admission of new students will he held at the County Court House on Friday, July 8th, at 9 A. M. Appli cants must not be less than fifteen years of age. When scholarships are vacated after July 8, they will be awarded to those making the highest average at this examination. Scholarships are worth ?ioo and free tuition. The next session will open Sep tember 21, 1904. For further information and catalogue address PRES. D.B. JOHNSON, Rock Hill.S.C. June 14. Sermon By Rev. Frank De Witt Talmage, D. D. The" Supply Co. Successors to L. Baker. Will furnish you Building Material of the lies! that the markets afford and at the lowest living prices. No. 1 heart pine Shingles anil Laths, and Devo’s cele brated Paints—guaranteed to go further and last longer than any other in the market. When in need of anything in the building line, call and see us; we’ll a treat you courteously and ma<e your es- \ timates for nothing. 1^. I { i i k o 1% Vice-President and Manager. Now for the New Year! Start it right by com ing to us for your :: Stanle and Fanc v Groceries, Canned ^ Goods, CigarsJobacco,Fruits, and Confectioneries, Our lines are still complete and contain nothing but the fresh est and the best. HAMLIN & RADFORD. Los Angeles, Cal., May 22.—The pres ent sin of covetousness, Its genesis, logical progression and culmination, is today the theme of the preacher. The text Is Joshua vli, 2.'>, “And all Israel stoned him with stones.” Few people have any adequate con ception of the wealth and the luxury of Hie ancient peoples of the east. Ever and anon In our own day the newspa pers contain accounts of the foolish ex travagances of ihe scions of wealthy families, who show even greater genius in their ability to dissipate and scatter their enormous fortunes than their an cestors did in the accumulation of their wealth. By frequent repetition so pro saic and commonplace have these ac counts become that special trains, pri vate yachts and banquets costing ten and even twenty thousand dollars for a few selected friends attract the read ers of the many newspapers hardly more than a passing notice. But even the wildest extravagances of modern times cannot equal those of the an cients. Then not only did Stricca and liis friends move around their palaces in slippers of gold, but when out rid ing they bestrode horses shod with sil ver. If perchance one of these silver shoes should be wrenched from off a horse’s hoof the supercilious and arro gant young Roman nobles commanded their servants to leave it lying in the dirt rather than stop the cavalcade to pick it up. Extravagant were the ancients in the matter of personal apparel. Pliny the elder makes mention of an instance he knew of a bridal dress which was made entirely of the most precious kind of pearls, which were strung to gether, costing over 40,000,000 sestertii, ir about $1,720,000 in American coin. Among tlie famous collections of per sonal apparel exhumed from the buried cities of the east by I>r. Heinrich Sehliemann, the noted German archae ologist. we find that the ancient peo ples of Troy and Mycenae once wore waistbands of gold, necklaces of gold and tiaras of precious stones, which glittered like the stars of midnight. Extravagant were the ancient peo ple of the east in their menu, as well as In the adornments of their banquet halls. Cains Suetonius Tranquillus, the Roman historian and biographer, makes mention of one supper given in honor of Yitellius, where there were served up to the guests at one sitting 2,000 most delicate fishes and 7,000 birds, while one immense dish, called the “shield,” was composed entirely of the brains of peacocks and parrots. Suetonius also records the fact that fabulous sums were squandered each year in the Roman capital and the nobles might banquet off the tongues of nightingales. Like the Count of Monte-Christo, they had all the most delicate tropical productions brought to their tables In midwinter as well as during the summer months. Opulent but Wicked Jericho. The traveler in the far east as he roams through the ruins of ancient cit ies realizes how costly those ancient palaces must have been, even as from a broken column of the Alhambra you can infer how beautiful must have once been the palaces of the Spanish Moors. So in imagination you may picture the costly vases of myrrhine, the priceless robes of silk, the heaps of Damascus nigs centuries old, the sword hilts jeweled with diamonds and other precious stones, the garments woven out of thread of gold and the emptied treasure vaults, with their countless prizes scattered about the •palace halls In untold profusion on tin* day that Jericho fell. Jericho was al ways noted among (he ancients as a city of fabulous wealth. But, though Herod the Great afterward erected his palaces in this “City of the I’alm Trees” and though it was for a time the home of Mark Antony and Cleo patra, yet perhaps in all Its history Jericho was never more opulent than on the day before its walls tottered be fore the blasts of the priests’ rams' horns. Rut, though the wealth of this cap tured eastern capital was prodigious, yet not one atom of gold, not one yard of silk, not one rug, not one diamond, was to be taken by the Hebrew sol diers for their own use. God told Joshua he would give this city Into his soldiers’ bands, but all the spoils of war of this city were to be God’s and God’s alone. But the night after the battle one Hebrew soldier. Instead of staying In Ids own company and doing what he ought to have done, allowed his sinful curiosity to get the better of him, lie went out among the ruins on ids own account and began to explore. ’I lion, as he saw the piled up heap of wealth, Ids heart began to covet what was not his, but God’s. When he thought no one was looking, he stole a beautiful Babylonish garment, 200 shekels of silver and a wedge of gold and went and hid them In his tent. After many days this theft was ex posed. Swift condemnation followed, and “all Israel stoned him with stones." What Interest can that ancient crime lie to us of tin* twentieth century? It concerns us as a type of the sins of every age. Trace the progression of evil In Achan’s time, and you will find the four stages by which sin still comes to culmination in the lives of •lie criminals of our day. From its Inception to its tragic close it is ever the same, and, though in (Ids world it sometimes escapes detection and pun ishment, in the end it incurs the right eous judgment of God. The I.u*l of the Kye. The first stage in Achan's fatal course was what the apostle describes as “the lust of the eye.” Achan’s curiosity was excited, lie wanted to see the wonder ful treasures which were to be conse crated to the Lord. His first step in ihe downward path which ended in his destruction was taken when he rose from among his sleeping comrades, and, slipping past the guards, lie wended ids way among the shattered walls of the captured city. It was one act for Achan with sword and spear and shield to fight Ids way into that doomed cap ital, swarming with enemies, but it was another act, after the battle was won, for this brave soldier to arise at night and crawl past the sentinels and begin to examine the spoils which were not ids and by right never could be his. It is one act, and a commendable net, for a young physician at the call of duty to go down to the place of evil resort in a large city to help some suf ferer prostrated by physical infirmity. It is another act, and a very danger ous act, for a young man or a young woman, actuated merely by an idle cu riosity, to join a slumming party to look upon vice and gloat over it as a spectacle. Sometimes temptations come to man in the ordinary walks of life, but in nearly every case, as with Achan, temptations to sin most suc cessfully assail a man when that man is idling in a place where he has no business to ho. Let me illustrate my thought from an old scene in the Bible. How often has the downfall of David been the subject of the pessimist’s diatribe! How he exults over the spectacle of the shepherd boy who conquered Go liath and climbed to the throne of Israel, yielding to his infatuation for a woman! “Yes, yes,” he says, “men are all alike; the best of men are vile at heart. Here is the sweet psalmist of Israel, the perfect specimen of noble manhood, the man after God’s own heart, so enslaved by his guilty pas sion for another man’s wife that he slays the husband to get possession of her. No man is to be trusted.” Why Dnvid Sinned. Is that your idea of men? Then, my brother and sister, you have not read human nature aright. All men are not bad. But all men will be bad if they do not stick scrupulously to the work God lias given them to do. The reason David sinned was not because he look ed upon “Kathsheba, the wife of Uriah, the Hittite." The reason David sinned was because, like Achan among the Jericho spoils, he was idling at home instead of being with his army. In the first verse of the eleventh chapter of II Samuel we read the secret of the whole sinful story: “And it came to pass after the year was expired, at the time when kings go forth to battle, that David sent Joab.” That sentence means simply this: When the time of military campaign came—the time when David ought to have taken the field and led on his own troops to bat tle—he sent a substitute and stayed at borne. The beginning of his danger was not in looking at Bathsheba, who was the wife of Uriah, the Hittite, but in being, like Achan, among the Jericho spoils, in a place where he had no right to be. My brother, when God calls you to do a work, he will always give you strength to resist the sinful tempta tions incident to that work. But when you go to a place where you have no right to go, you are liable to experi ence that lust of the eye which may be the beginning of a long succession of other sins. Young man, beware of the tempta tion to absent yourself from the post of duty. Beware, when Sabbath day comes around, if your minister does not see you in the house of God. You may say you are tired. You may say you will stay at home and read the Bible and have your devotions in your room, but beware. In coming to a large city, do not let your new made friends en tice you into a saloon, just to look at the beautiful pictures upon the walls, and the expensive mosaics on the tloors, and tin* gorgeous rugs and the fine set banquets in the gambling halls. It is doubtful whether the step some cities have taken of ordering the re moval of screens from the doors and the lifting of curtains from the win dows of saloons on Sundays has not Its disadvantages. It enables the po liceman to see whether business is be ing done In the prohibited hours, and is so far an advantage, but it makes conspicuous the decorations and at- traetions of those places, and so tends to allure passersby to visit them when they are open. Sin so often begins in the looking on temptation that the safest course for every one is to avoid the spectacle of it as far as possible. AcIiiiii'm FirNt Steii. Achan’s “eye step.” in the next place, was followed by his “covetous step!” We say that the sin of covetousness is only one step beyond the first sin. But the second step of Achan's sin is even more dangerous than the first stage. The one may lie the hare, repulsive branch, with its sap frozen and con gealed by the frosts of winter. The other may he the spring blossoms growing upon that branch when the spring lias placed the silver trumpet of the resurrection to nature’s lip. The lust of the eye is nearly always accom panied by hesitation and timidity. You can see that fear in the Hushed cheek of the young man who stands upon the street corner debating within himself whether or no lie will enter the place of evil resort to which his dissipated friends are persuading him. When the mind has taken the second step and desire is aroused, the hideous deform ity of sin disappears, and longing sees In it only what Is attractive and en Joyablo. The second sin, the sin of covetousness, is blind to the scorpion's sting or the adder's hiss or the tiger's claw or the shark's threatening tin lifted like the black Hag of tbe pirate over a threatening sea of green. The “sin of covetousness” is a summer stroll through woods filled with the aroma of wild flowers. It is the fanta sies of the diseased brain of the opium eater, which the sinful imagination can place almost within the grasp of the dreamer. It Is the most gorgeous of air castles, the most beautiful of Uto pias, the sweetest of songs. It is the soft coucli under the shadows of the overhanging tree branches, over which the satanic spiders are spinning a few beautiful silken threads which can be snapped in a day, but which in time may become as strong as links of steel. Ah, Achan on that fatal night may not have gone forth with the premedi tated idea of stealing that goodly Bab ylonish garment and the 200 shekels of silver and the wedge of gold, but after his eyes had rested on the gold and the silver and the goodly garment desire was awakened, and his longing to possess them became irresistible. “Oh,” he said to himself, “I wish 1 had that garment! How beautiful it would look hanging from my shoulders! 1 wish I could have that lump of gold. It would protect me against poverty all the days of my life. And why should I not have them? There are so many spoils of war here these few treasures will not be missed.” Is not Achan, going to the place of execution, the history of almost every sinner? “Eye sin,” first step; “covet ous sin,” second step. What we would like to do nearly always precedes what we will ultimately do if we get the chance. Bejazet, the sultan of the Ot toman empire, was defeated by Tam erlane in the famous battle of Angora. After the battle the Tartar conqueror called Bejazet into his tent and asked him how he would have treated Tam erlane if he had won. “Like a dog!” said the captured sultan. “I would have made you my footstool when I mounted my saddle, and when your services were not needed I would have chained you In a cage like a wild beast.” Then Tamerlane replied, “In stead of treating you like a dog I shall show you mercy and treat you like a king.” But all the kindness of Tam erlane went for naught. As were Be- jazet’s thoughts, so were his ultimate actions, lie betrayed the noble kind nesses of Tamerlane and plotted his assassination. Then tradition has it that Tamerlane commanded that Be jazet should be treated like a dog and chained in a cage like a wild beast. So, my brother, like Achan of my text you and I can trace the degeneracy of our lives, if they are degenerate, by our evil thoughts, which always pre cede evil actions. What we think, we will ultimately speak; what we desire, we will ultimately do. Hard to Reslnt. Oh, the evil sin of covetousness! Be ware! Beware! Evil thoughts are only a step from evil actions. Are we not all In danger of the covetous sin? Would you tell a lie for 10 cents? “No,” you emphatically answer. “No, of course not—of course not.” Would you tell a lie, just one little lie, for $100? “No,” you answer again, but not so emphatically. Would you tell a lie for $10,000—a He which In one sense would not hurt anybody? You look at me In a quizzical way and say, “Please don’t ask me.” Well. I do ask you. I ask you, not for the purpose of giving you the oITer, but of finding out what is the condition of your thoughts. Achan coveted 200 shekels of silver and a wedge of gold, which must have been worth at least $10,000 In our money. He coveted them without the Idea of hurting any one else, yet for that sin of covetousness, which was the forerunner of other sins. Achan had to die. Beware, O man, how you allow your evil thoughts to live Achan’s “eye sin” was followed by Achan’s “covetous sin.” Evil thoughts will ultimately be the parents of evil actions. But now, in following the four fatal stages of Achan’s sin, we find that his third step—the “linger step”—changes him before the world from an honest into a dishonest man. No sooner does Achan hide that Babylonish garment under his soldier's clonk and hug that wedge of gold and bag of sliver under ids arm than before man, as well as God, he becomes amenable to human law. Once he was a criminal at heart, hut not a crimii al in act—In his own consciousness and in God’s sight a thief, but before Ids fellow men an honest, upright man. No one knew that under that fair and respectable exterior there lurked the plunderer. Like Dr. Jekyll in Stevenson's famous allegory, he gave no sign of that de moniac personality which he harbored within him. But once the boundary is passed, and the evil thoughts and evil desires have taken shape in acts, he is under the ban of Justice, and ultimate ly, like Edward Everett Hale’s well known character, he becomes a man from whom all but men like himself shrink—"a man without a country.” It is an awful catastrophe when a man by direct sin of commission ruins the long record of what the world lias regarded as an exemplary life. In the old Strassburg cathedral there is a famous clock. There not only the time of day is told, but the eclipses of the sun and moon are cal culated for all time. There you can see the twelve apostles bowing before the Saviour and hear Peter’s cock crowing, after the fisherman apostle had denied Christ thrice. There are the symbols of childhood and youth and manhood and old age. It Is a wonderful clock—wonderful In nil Its various mechanisms. But history tells us that this clock was In ruins for many, many years. It was In ruins up to 1842. Why? After the first me chanic had constructed it, In a fit of rage he completely destroyed It be cause the magistrates of Strassburg were going to put out his two eyes so that he could not build another clock like it for any oilier city. Thus, like the old clock builder of Strassburg, many and many a man, by one sinful act, can destroy all the usefulness and the work of a lifetime. Achan’s first sin was his “eye step.” Achan's sec ond sin was his “heart step” or “thought step.” Achan’s third sin was that which drove him at once out of brotherly fellowship with man. It was his “finger step” or his sin of commis sion. Cannot you read the stages of progression in the words of the human tragedy, “I saw;” “I coveted;” “I took?” Perhaps we can translate it In even a better way: “I looked;” “I de sired;” “I did.” Achan’a Cowardice. But now, after the “finger step” has been committed, comes the fear and the horror. Aye, the "covetous step” may lead through an embowered gar den. The buzzards may there be feath ered in the gorgeous colors of a yellow breasted, black tipped oriole. The ••lin ger step” may be a leap, a jump, an Impulsive bound, but no sooner is that fourth step taken than comes the foot step,” or the stealthy fugitive step. As soon as Achan, the thief, got posses sion of this gold and silver ami this Babylonish garment he did not know what to do with them. He could not wear the cloak; he could not spend the money; so, like a coward, he skulked away and went and hid them in his tent. Sin nearly always makes a coward out of a man. Achan did exactly what our first ancestor did in the garden of Eden after he had sinned. No sooner was that forbidden fruit eaten than for Adam the heavens seemed to be overcast. He not only slunk away and hid in the thickets as a cowardly hye na would run away from the hounds, but when God called him forth he did even a meaner act than that. He turn ed and tried to throw the blame upon the woman by his side as he said, “Yes, I did eat, but the woman v.hom thou gnvest to be with me, she gave me, and I did eat.” Oh, my friends, the crimi nal unconsciously reveals himself. The accusing voice of his conscience saps his manliness and robs him of his open demeanor. If there is not an honest heart In a man, his face and his bear ing will not be honest. The lowered eyelid, the trembling hand, the shuflling foot—all reveal the error of his past. A despicable sin always makes a cow ard out of a man—without an excep tion. always, always. Sin by its very nature is only another name for cow ardice. No sooner did Achan take the gold than he ran away and hid it; no sooner do you sin against God, then, like all other sinners, you try to get as far ns possible away from God. Shall we follow on and see the end of this human tragedy? Shall we stop and watch the twitching limbs of the Hebrew apostate who is being stoned to death by his late comrades in arms? No, 1 would not for one minute have you look at the deatli agony and the eternal despair. Death by execution is too terrible for any human eyes to witness, unless It is our duty to wit ness it. I remember, some years ago, I was invited, as one of the jurors, to be present in Sing Sing prison when a murderer was electrocuted for his crimes. I am always thankful that 1 missed the train and did not arrive in time for the execution. So, today, I would not lead you forth to where Achan is uttering his moans; but rath er would I close this sermon with this thought: Terrible as sin is in its na ture and its effects, there is a divine remedy for it God, In Ids infinite pity, has had compassion on the sinner and has stretched out his hand to rescue him from his ruin and his de spair. Not only does he offer pardon to the sinner, but deliverance from the power of sin. “Sin.” he says to all who put their trust in Christ, “shall not have dominion over you.” Though, like Achan, you may have fallen un der its power, if you come to Christ and put your faith in him, you shall be saved. There is salvation for you, and peace for you, and eternal life for you. through the blood of Jesus Christ, who loves you and who has given his life for you In order that you might live. III11 Itenl Birthday. May this moment he the supreme moment for your eternal redemption and not eternal damnation. When Bertel Thorwaldsen, the great Danish sculptor, was asked the day of his na tivity, he answered: “I was born on the 8th of March, 17!>7. Before then I did not exist.” This was not the date of his physical birth. Thorwaldsen was physically born Nov. R>, 1770, and March 8, 1707, was the day that he was artistically born. That was the day when he first saw Rome. May this day lie to you the best of all days, not the day when, like Achan. you must die, but as Bertel Thorwaldsen first saw Borne, so may this be the first day on which you can truly see the face of Jesus Christ and live. [Copyright, 1904, by Louts Klopsch.] To Physicians ■ ■ vi ■% a ■ ■ I When you have a difficult pre- sciiption or one that is to be used in a serious case of ill ness, bring it to us. We fill every prescription exactly as it is written. None hut licensed and gra duates in phannacy employed in our prescription depart ment. Cherokee Drug Co*, Prescription Druggists. Cor. Limestone and Frederick Sts. If you get it at the Cherokee it’s good We Have Just received Our third Shipment of Childrens’ Slippers. Call and look Over what We have. The Shoe Store. PifGlLE'S TONIC A REAL CURE FOR It has recently been discovered that the germs that produce Malaria, breed and multiply in the intestines and from there spread throughout the system bv means of the blood. This fact ex plains why Malaria is hard to cure by tbe old method of treatment. Quinine, Inin, etc., stimulate the nerves and build up the blood, but do not destroy the germs that cause the disease. Rydale's Tonic has a specific effect upon the intestines and bowels, freein" them from all disease breeding mi- cobes. It also kills the germs that infest the veins and arteries. It drives Tom the blood all poisonous matter and makes it rich and healthy. RYDALE’S TONIC is a blood •milder, a nerve restorer, and a Malaria lest: oyer. Try it, it will not disap point you. GAFFNEY DRUG CO. Letter to J. E. Webster. Gaffney, S. C. Dear Sir: What would ho tho re sult of selling poor paint with this guarantee? “If you have any fault to find with this paint, either now in putting it on, or hereafter in tho wear, tell your dealer about it. “We authorize him to do what Is right at our expense.” That means pay damages, don’t It? Here’s another guarantee: “If your State chemist finds this paint adulterated, we will pay his bill, and send you $1000.” Wo stand by both of these guaran tees; as we are the maker, wo know all about It. Yours truly 59 F W Devoe & Co P. S.—L. Baker, Contractor and ; Builder, sells our paint. Filling Prescriptions Is our specialty. Our drugs are FRESH, our prescrip tion filling accurate and our delivery prompt. Try u* once and you wil* always be our customer. S.B. 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