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Calirsaae Sertnors By Rev. Frank De Witt Talmafie, D. D. Los Angeles, Cal., June 5.—In these flays of widespread separation and di vorce, and when the Integrity of the home is assailed from without and within, the advice of the preacher who * takes love for his theme may help to dis pel the clouds that now overhang many a household. The text Is Ephesians v, 23, “Husbands, love your wives.” Two startling facts about Paul’s per sonality have always vividly impressed me. The one is the estimate of his physical personality formed by his en emies in the Corinthian church who bad sat under his ministry and there fore knew him well. Paul himself tells us that they said, “His bodily presence is weak and his speech con temptible.” Chrysostom, according to A 11)011 Barnes, declared that “Paul’s stature was low, his back crooked and his head bald.” According to Niee- phorus, Paul was a little man with curvature of the spine and a pale countenance, long and wrinkled, and with a head like Julius Caesar, noted for its scarcity of hair. Whether these descriptions are true, we know not; but It is little likely that the Corin thians would have spoken of him ns they did, and that writers so near his own time as Chrysostom and Nieepho- Vus would have so described him, if this intellectual and spiritual giant had possessed an imposing personality. And yet, all through the Pauline writings, figures of speech bristle with the symbols of the athlete’s arena. The runner, the fighter, the gladiator, the struggle with the beasts of Ephesus, all have their inspirations and gospel teachings. The second fact, which stands side by side with the first, about the per sonality of Paul is this: Paul was a bachelor. It lias been contended that he was a member of the sanhedrin and, If so, must have been married, but the expression in Acts xxvi, 10, on which the theory of his membership is based, is vague and may have demounted to no more than the testi- mony of a witness. On the other hand, his argument In I Corinthians lx, 5, clearly implies that both he and Bar nabas were unmarried, lids condi tion, however, by no means Indicates that he was deficient In the affection ate side of his nature. Ills letters show that he lavished on his children In the faith the love that other men give to their offspring and that he was an exceedingly affectionate, warm hearted man. He taught parents that they should love their children and children that they should care for their parents, wives that they should honor their husbands and husbands that they should love their wives. It Is in refer ence to this last commandment that I would speak today. Marital Affection. There Is a special reason at this time for showing the need of a husband being truly devoted and loving to his wife, because there seems to be a pop ular theory abroad that the old fash ioned Idea of a family home is gone and gone forever. But, instead of be lieving that the old fashioned idea of love should be done away with, I be lleve that, like the garden beds which used to be planted in our ancestors’ front yards, they should be cultivat ed more and more. Marital affection may be old fashioned, but I believe it is one of the noblest, finest most beau tiful things in life. What could be more tender, more pathetic, than the words uttered by the great Dr. Thomas De Witt when, struggling with un trollable grief, be stood by the open :'ie plantoth a vineyard. She maketh i,-rse!f coverings of tapestry; her clotti ng is silk and purple.” Mark well :1. se words: A true wife “perceiveth that her merchandise is good;” not a slattern, n«t a female doll, not a paint ed millinery establishment. I am speaking of such a wife as the book of Proverbs describes. It is a faithful portrait, the fidelity of which many a man in this church could attest by his own experience. Power Behind the Throne. “Oh, no,” says the masculine egotist, “woman is not the breadwinner of the family. It is the husband, who, as a lawyer, wins fees in the courtroom; as a physician, gains money from pa tients; as a soldier, fights his country’s battles; as a legislator, enacts laws, which the male executive enforces; he is the merchantman, who sells the goods; he is the foundryman, who manufactures the steel rails. Man, man, everywhere is man the bread winner. We find that man tills the fields, and man rules the money mar kets, and man sits upon the judicial bench and the professional chairs.” Is that a fact, my brother? Tis true, man is the visible breadwinner. But when you are looking for the driving force which produces results in society do not make the mistake of supposing that there is no power but what you see. The power behind the throne is some times greater than the throne itself. If this be not true, how can you ac count for the wonderful results which come into many men’s lives at the marriage altar and end with the deaths of or the separations from their female silent partners. Who was Napoleon Bonaparte? The greatest military strategist of the ages? Yes. But aft er all you can find his wonderful suc cess flanked by two incidents in his life. They started with his marriage to Josephine. They ended with his divorce. Had Josephine’s partnership nothing to do with Napoleon’s success? Who was William E. Gladstone? That statesman whose energy and com manding genius were the wonder of his countrymen, acknowledged that the reverence and trust of his devoted wife had been a source of inspiration and stimulus to him all through his long career, and that to have her sit ting by him on the political rostrum or looking down at him from the gallery of the house of commons quickened all his powers. Who was John Bright, the great commoner? He also was the husband of a woman his equal in per sonality. On the day of their mar riage she turned and said to him, John, attend to thy business and thy her the same rewards the apostle has fault with his wife, if he neglects her commanded in the words of my text. an( ] ridicules her and sneers at her, Did Paul ever speak of money in ref- he sets an example which his children erence to the husband’s duty to his are only t<*> prone to follow. His esti- wife? No, he takes that for granted, mate of their mother, often coarsely He says, “Husbands, love your wives.” and bluntly expressed, is likely to be- ^ For Sale. Advertisement* anaw tni* near! win 0 .• inserted for one cent a word each inser- " . u. Nondin**rt«d for less than tea o*nv* FOR SALE—Bay State organ, cheap SI ft \ u r ? u ko « k Dri But that is not all. He gives his com- come theirs, and their natural affection ^°. r cas ^> or exchange for sorry mandment in the superlative sense, for her turns to indifference and in- "Husbands, love your wives even as gratitude. Oh, my friends, who are Christ also loved the church and gave himself for it.” Ah. could there be any sweeter or more devoted or more Intense measure for a husband's af fections than that? It Is love the true wife longs for. as it Is love the true husband In the home should long for. Not money so much as love, intense, devoted, loyal, self sacrificing love. Husbands, pay your wives for their sacrifices of life in the golden coin of minted love. Marriage’s Promissory Note. But there is a promissory note con- milch cow. 6-3-3t-pd R. G. Byars. husbands and fathers, you know how sanctifying and purifying is the intiu- ence that has come to you from your mothers' graves. Your love .and rever ence for your mother have kept you In many an hour of temptation. Let your children have the same beneficent influ ence. Never by look or thought or word weaken the influence your wife may have over your children. When you are untrue to your wives, you are untrue to your children. “Love Your Wives.” But there is still another and a more ^ For Rent. pou kknt—G. c. Wiikms house and lot. needed with every marriage certificate , far reaching reason why American which should compel a husband to give men should love their wives, “even as his love to his wife as well as his grati- Christ also loved the church and gave tude for what she does. It was on ac- himself for it.” Not only is the home, count of this loving promise which he p u t the community and the nation, made to her that she, a young girl, was builded upon the cornerstone of the persuaded to leave her father’s home love which a husband should bear to and turn her back upon her school friends and, like Ruth, who followed Naomi, go with her husband where he went and lodge with him where he lived and make his people her people and his God her God. Therefore if a man who has won his bride upon the promissory note of love does not fulfill his contract he is a swindler as well as an ingrate; a deceiver, a falsifier, a per- his wife. I am not stating this fact too emphatically. I will go further and say the salvation of the world itself is dependent upon that purified love. \Yhut does the Bible say, “God setteth the sefitary in families.” The unit of soclet. is not the man who casts as a vote the white slip of paj)er into the ballot box. It is the man and the wo man Joined together at the marriage jurer, us well as one whoso ideas of altar as one. If that union is not main- gratitude are as monstrous and dis torted as that of the wayward son, who would trample upon a mother’s bleeding heart and turn upon his fa ther’s love. You believe a merchant is dishonest who through the bankruptcy court would repudiate a debt lie could pay. Why will you not say a husband is dishonest and contemptible who would repudiate the obligation of a lifetime love, which lie accepted when he pledged himself to the young girl by his side on his wed^ig^luy, when they stood amid embowered orange blossoms? Tills swindle in reference to prom ised affections which a husband some times practices upon a wife is the more contemptible because in one sense the wife is absolutely helpless after the perpetration of the fraud. Say what you will, argue as you may, talk glow ingly and poetically and grandiloquent ly about woman’s opportunities, a wife’s opportunities have always been and nearly always will be circum scribed by the four walls of her home. The husband has his outside business E'S TOKO A REAL CORF FOR It has recently 'jeen discovered thM he germs that produce Malaria, b’eeu md multiply in the intestines and t>n*n acre spread tnroughout the •>>’ means of the blood. This fact e.\ plains why Malaria is hard to cure by the old method of treatment. Quit-ire, Iron, etc., stimulate the nerves aid POK KENT-A five-room cottage. Apply bUt Ao ^ ot ^r Ar< ■' “ to J. I. Sarratt. tf. ^ t ' le g erms that cause the disease. — ! Rydale's Tonic has a specific eftect •" | crobes. It also kills the germs that F <mtVi, l,uuse :', re;ir i infest the veins and arteries. It drives corn* r liace and Johnson streets. W. H the blood all poisonous matter smith. ' and makes it rich and healthy. V. RYDALE’S TONIC is a blood rOli ItEN F—Nice b-room cottiisre. with hi! ___ _ . . . r improvements, on Grenarcl street. Ap- huilder, a nerve restorer, and a Malaria ply toJ. C. .Teffeties. t-l-tf! destroyer. Try it, it will not disap point you. GAFFNEY DRUG COMPANY. Apply to Geo. M. Phifer. .i-:j-tf. S UITES of looms to let in the J«i:ir Theatre A. N. Wood. 3-22-tf F OB BENT—A good two-horse farm with a neat ft ve-room cottage. Apply at once to J. C. Lipscomb. 2-ltt-tf Wanted. W ANTED—To make straight loans on city real estate. No commissions. Several thousand dollars to loan. Apr29-tf J. 0. Jefferies. Money Loaned. L OANS on improved farms ?or a term of years at seven per cent. Interest. Ni commissions. For Information apply to J. 0 Jefferies, Attorney at Law. public affairs, and I will provide for re i a tion8hips. He has his mercantile the home and relieve thee from all cares at home.” And so great is the friends us well as his store friends. He meets men on the street, in the cars, in value of a true wife in relutfrn to her t}ie ()t ii oet behind the counter. He can husband’s success that nearly all great, men are ready to testify to this fact and declare that they can never repay the obligations which their wives have placed upon them. I was taught the obligation which a true husband owes to a true wife some years ago by an eastern minister whom I consider one of the greatest pulpit geniuses of his age. I was about to he married, and was talking with him, when he gave to me this characteristic advice; “Always love your wife. But more than that, always learn to respect and follow her Judgment, because she can be your best adviser. When I was a young man I started out with some success. I knew I could speak, and I could also write. And often when I would write something I thought very fine I would take it down to my wife and read It. Sometimes she would look up from her sewing and say, ’John, don’t say that.’ With that 1 would throw down my manuscript and stalk up and down the room in disgust. Why do you say that?’ I would ask. Do you know how to preach? Are you a better judge of preaeblug than my self? Haven’t I spent four years in college and three years in the semi nary? What business have you to tell me what to do? You are nothing but a woman anyway.’ But after a long ex grave In which be had Just laid the perience I found that my wife’s Juhg- mortal remains of his beloved wife? He said: “Farewell, my beloved and honored and faithful wife. The tie that united us is severed. Thou art with Jesus in glory, and he is with me by his grace. I shall soon be with you. Farewell.” The Holy Book de clares, ’Whoso flndeth a wife flndeth a good thing.” It is no part of my pur pose to tell young men how they should proceed In trying to win th* affections of the girls they desire to marry. My design rather Is to urge married men to show their wives the same deference, the same love and de votion, that characterized them before the twain stood at the marriage altar, bearing and saying the solemn words which made them one flesh. Why Is the true wife’s value above the price of rubies, as King Solomon declared? She Is her husband’s busi ness' partner; her husband’s equal in brain as well ns In heart power. She fights with him, In a financial way, the great battle of life; therefore, like her husband, she has a right to expect the same rewards for her labors that he has for bis. It has been the habit ot some cynics to represent a wife as a mere parasite, a hunger on, a cling ing vine, a barnacle or a human leech sucking out the life’s blood of her mas culine partner. Polyfnotus, the great ? ! reclan artist, painted her 42*5 B. C. s a four legged beast in “The Rope of Conus,” devouring all the labors of her husband, while he works on and on, weaving out his life work In a rope of straw. But that Is not my Idea of the true wife. The true wife Is a con Sumer as man is a consumer, but she la also a financial producer as man is a producer. Like man, she produces far more than she consumes. As the book of Proverbs pic tures: “She Is like the merchant ships* she brlngeth her food from afar. She conslderoth a field and buyeth it; with the fruit of her hands ment could always be depended upon. When I followed her Judgment I al ways came out light, and when I fol lowed my own against hers I always came out wrong. And, though I am now an old man and one of much ex perience, yet whenever I am in doubt about anything I have ever written I always go to her. And when she says, ‘John, don’t say that,’ I take my pen and scratch out the whole page. My success Is due in a great measure to my wife’s Judgment and not to my own.” Susan Talmase’s Influence. I know that the world honors my father’s memory. But personally I know T. De Witt Talmage’s success was due to a great extent to Susan TaImage, who was his wife and my mother. What most of us can say in reference to our fathers’ successes we can say in reference to our own. It Is to the good advice, the loving intuition, the sound judgment of the wife, whom we have taken as a partner, that we owe in great measure all that we have gained in life. Men, husbands, friends, bow are we going to repay our wives for ail the sacrifices they have made for us? “Oh,” some husband says, "I do my full duty to my wife. I provide for her a good home. I give her all the «oney she needs.” You do? Oh, that m very kind. As far as I can make out you give your wife nothing but her own property. Bbe earns her support, just as you do, and she has a right to at loast one-half of your Income. If from a mere cold blooded standpoint you bad to hire a housekeeper to do the work she does, you would have to pay far more for her wages than your wife ever spends for clothes and en tertainment. “Then if that be the case, and it is the case,” some man says, "how am I to pay my wife un less I pay her In money ?” Why, give get away and does get away from the home. But for the most part the wife is anchored to the kitchen, the bed room and the nursery of home by the children. Therefore if he fails her and defrauds her of his promised love she is absolutely helpless and must suffer more than he can realize. She has practically no redress, for she has giv en up her all for him. If, however, on account of her husband’s neglect a wife turns her back upon him and goes forth to meet the world as an in dependent woman, then the world it self will turn its back upon her. Just before I began my Chicago pastorate a very prominent Pittsburg lady who was divorced said to me: “On account of the neglect and the inhumanities of a brutal husband, for the protection of myself and children, I got a legal sepa ration. But if I had It all to do over again I would bear any injustice and suffer every brutality rather than get a divorce. The outside world does not look Into tbe causes of a family dis ruption, but heartless people will al ways look upon a divorced wife as on one who Las a black mark upon her brow.” Oh, ye faithless, unloving hus bands, will you not be honest to your selves and honest to your wives and pay the promissory note of love which you made when the minister pro nounced you and your wife one “until death do you part?” Broke* Hearted Wives. Can you not bear tbe wallings and sobs of broken hearted wives In the words of the poet of old: Before I trust my fate to thee Or place my hand In thine. Before I let thy future give Color and form to mine. Before 1 peril all to thee. Question thy soul tonight for me. Does there within thy dlirmest dreams A possible future shine, Wherein thy life could henceforth breathe, Untouched, unshared by mine? If so, at any pain or cost. Oh, tell me before all Is lost. In the death knell of a husband's love I also hear tbe sobs of tbe broken heart of a mother as well as of a wife. The great dramatist wrote, “Oh, sharp er than a serpent’s tooth it is to have a thankless child!” Many a mother has learned this by bitter experience, through her husband’s conduct Tbe love that the child naturally feels for tbe mother withers and dies under Uie poison that comes from witnessing the father's contempt for the mother. Lit tle likely is a child to reverence the mother after hearing the blame and vituperation hurled at her by her hus band. In the Venetian museum is a fatal Instrument, invented by Tibaldo, called “the key of death.” It was a key having in its handle a small bid den spring, which Inclosed a needle filled with deadly poison. When this key was pressed by tbe hand the nee die would spring forth, inject the poi son into the hand of tbe holder, and death would always follow the touch. Bo in many a home there is a “key of death.” It is nearly always fatal to a child’s love. It is the key which opens the “chamber of borrora,” In which rattles the grinning, hideous skeleton of a husband’s dead love. If a brutal father systematically continues to find tained in the spiritual sense, then there is no union, and there is no stable com munity. Why was the first settlement at Jamestown, Va„ a failure and the first settlement at Plymouth rock a suc cess? Were the old pilgrim fathers any braver men than the Virginia planters? Was not John Smith of as heroic mold as Miles Standish? The reason for the failure of the James town colony was due to the fact that those southern colonizers did not bring their wives along with them, while the Plymouth fathers stuck to Plymouth rock because they were anchored there by the Plymouth mothers. Why do men herding together as a class degen erate morally, mentally and physical ly? Because they lack the moral and spiritual leaven which comes from a noble wife’s love. Therefore, brethren, if as men you would be true to yotir country, tme to your city, true to your children, true to yourself and true to your Christ you will be true to your wives. Husbands, hear ye not the far- reaching commandment, “Love your wives?” Reapect and Deference. How shall we love our wlvds? By giving them a few silly compliments? Oh, no! Not that A wife is quick to detect insincerity in such inanities. But you can show her your respect and deference. You can prove to her by your pleasure in her society, by the lit tle attentions that when you were a lover came naturally to you and by your preference for her over younger women that your heart Is still In her keeping. The little presents, the con sideration of her tastes and the desire to give her pleasure which used to characterize your treatment of her would delight her better now than ever before and would bring to her weary face the glad smile of tender affection. Husbands, love your wives. We should love them in making them one with us in all our thoughts and hopes and Joys. We should love them so that the bright est hope of our love would be to lighten their burdens and to always have them by our sides. We should love and con tinue to love them even as Christ loves tbe church, when, In tbe canticles, we read his beautiful blessing upon it: “As the illy among the thorns, so is my love among the daughters. As the ap ple tree among the trees of the woods, so Is my beloved.” O husband, do you love your wife as Christ loves his church bride? The pure, the bright, tht beautiful. That stirred our hearts In youth. The Impulse of a wordless prayer, The dream of love and truth. The longings after something lost, The spirit's yearning cry, The strivings after better hopes— These things should never die. The memory of a clasping hand. The pressure of a kiss. And all the trifles, sweet and frail, That make up love's first bliss. If with a firm, unchanging faith And holy trust and high. Those hands have clasped, those Ups have met— These things should never die. ANNOUNCEMENTS Cards under this head will be in serted from now until the primary for $5.00 each for county officers; mag istrates’ announcements, $3.00. All fees must be paid in advance. For the Legislature. Upon my record as a legislator, I hereby announce myself a candidate for re-election to the general assem bly, subject to the decision of the Democratic primary. W. Judson Sarratt. For Superintendent of Education. I respectfully announce for re- election to the office of County Su perintendent of Education. J L. Walker. CALL HERE For Photo Frames, Passe-Partout Bind ing, Passe-Partout work, Photo Albums, Gun Metal Photo Holders, (for indi vidual photograph). Wire Picture Racks. Films and the best in all photographic work. For Auditor. Believing we need a change in the auditor’s office, I hereby offer myself a candidate for the place, subject to the action of the Democratic primary. G. B. Daniel. Feeling that my friends through out the county have the confidence in me that they have had heretofore and soliciting a continuance of the same, I take pleasure in again an nouncing myself as a candidate for re-election to the' office of county Auditor, subject to the action of the Democratic primary election. W. D. Camp. For Supervisor. I hereby announce myself as a can didate for Supervisor of Cherokee county, subject to the rules of the Democratic primary election. D. L. Vassey. I hereby announce myself as a candidate for Supervisor of Cherokee county, subject to the rules of the primary election. W. G. Austell. I hereby announcement mysedf a candidate for the office of Supervisor, subject to the action of the Demo cratic primary. Wm. (Chris) Phillips. Let nothing pass, for every hand Must find some work to do; Lose not a chance to waken love; Be firm and Just and true; Bo shall the light that cannot fads Beam on thee from on high. And angels’ voices say to thee, "These things shall never die.” [Copyright, 1904, by Louis Klopsch.] For a change, R. M. Jolly for Su pervisor of Cherokee county. I hereby announce myself a candi date for re-election to the office of Supervisor of Cherokee county, sub ject to the rules of the Democratic party. J. V. Whelcbel. June H. Carr, Phone 176. Residence, 171, 625 Limestone Street FOR Building and Plastering Lime, Coal, and Plaster Hair, Plaster Paris, Shingles, Portland Cement Dynamite, Blasting Powder, Fuse and Dynamite Caps, call on LIMESTONE SPRINGS LIME WORKS. CARROLL & CO., Lessees. Telephone 57. Dr. S. H. Griffith, PHYSICAN - SURGEON - OCULIST. Former pupil of the celebra ted Oculist, Dr. Julian fj. Chisolm, ot Baltimore. Has also taken special post-grad uate course in the Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Hospital of Baltimore. Glasses Fitted Accurately and Scientifically. |&‘Office in Cherokee Drug Co., BTdg. For Congress. I am a candidate for Congress, from the Fifth Congressional District, subject to the result of the Demo cratic primary election. T. Y. Williams. J. F. GARRETT, ^Dentist. Office Over The Battery. ’Phone 82^ His Hellglon. The Rev. V. B. Carroll, a southern clergyman, tells the following story: “We were driving out one Sunday from Decatur when we came upon a negro with a club in bis band and a freshly killed possum on his shoulder. We stopped to examine his prize, and the colonel said: “ ‘My friend, do you knew it is Sun day?’ “ ‘Sartin, boss.’ “‘Are you a religious man?* “ T are. I’g Jlst on my way home from church.’ “ ‘And what sort of religion have yon got that pennlts you to go hunting on Sunday?’ “’Religion? Religion?’ queried the man as he held the possum up with one hnnd and scratched his head with the other. ‘Does you ’spect any black man in Alabama Is gwlne to tie hlsself up to any rHIglon dat ’lows a possum to walk right across tbe road ahead of him an’ git away free? No, sab! A religion which won’t bend a little when a fat possum heads you off couldn’t be ’stablished round yere by all the preachers in the universe.’ ” Dr. D. P. THOMSON, Dentist. “Oftlce over Cherokee Druir Co. 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 be 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. P'or further information and catalogue address PRES. D. B. JOHNSON, Rock Hill, S. C. June 14. William 8. Hall. Jk. james a. Willis. HALL & WILLIS, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. STAK THEATRE BI.DO. Notary Public Inlofflce. Prompt attention flven to all buslneaa. DR. W. K. GUNTER, DENTIST Office in Star Theatre Building. Phone No. 20. Crown and Bridge Work a specialty. FOR Up-to-Date JoblPrint- ing, call at the LEDGER Office. Gaffney, S. C. The Builders Supply Co. Successors to L. Baker. Will furnish you Building Material of the best that the markets afford and at the lowest living prices. No. i heart pine Shingles anti 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 treat you courteously and mate your es timates for nothing. Iv. Baker, Vice-President and Manager. Piedmont High School For boys and girls. Faculty re presenting Wake F'orest College, The University of North Caro lina, Catawba College, Southern Female College, Littleton Female College an«l Peace Institute. Pre pares thoroughly for college and lor the active duties of life. Non- sectarian. Special advantages in Music and pflocutiou. Magnifi- cent scenery. Mineral water. No Malaria. Splendid commu nity. Not a liar room in the conn ty. Board at actual cost. Last year the average cost of board was $4.87 per month. Tuition Jti .00 to I3.00. Room rent 35c per month. Session open July iHth and close April 4th. For illusted catalogue, write to W. D. BGItNS, Principal, LAWNDALE.N C. June 27.