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'ir v the Fair F.- I * The w One Price Store The Special Embroidery, White Goods and Lawn Sale will be held Next Wednesday Junel5tli One Day Only Values will be offered during this sale that have never before been shown in Gaffney. Listen to Our Prices UAljroidery St Embroidery Embroidery Embroidery Embroidery Embroidery Embroidery Embroidery Embroider v worth 6oc, worth 50c, worth 30c, worth 25c, worth 20c, wortli 18c, worth 15c, worth loc, worth 8c, this sale . this sale.. this sale. . this sale. . this sale.. this sale.. this sale.. this sale. . this sale . ••39^ ..19c ..15c . .I3C . . I2C . . IOC .. yc ..7c • • 5 C Sermon By Rev. Frank De Witt Talmatfo, D. D. Los Angeles, Cal., June 12.—In this sermon the loving care of God In deal jng with his children and the way in which he tits them for the battle of life are graphically described under the similitude of the eagle and Its young. The text is Deuteronomy xxxil, 11, “As the eagle stirreth up her nest.” The war goddess has crowned the ea gle “monarch of the air." His throne is the inaccessible cliff, his diadem the noontide sun, his footstool the morn ing clouds, his playground the vast ex panse of infinite space. His keenness of eye, boldness of flight, sharpness of claw, merciless destructiveness of beak, cause him to be dreaded in mountain ous lands, as the huge jaws and pow erful claws of the lion cause him to be dreaded in the African forests. But, though the eagle has been called the monarch of the air, as the lion has been called the monarch of the fields, yet the eagle, like the lion, never had plunges us into the abyss of trouble In order that we. as fledgelings, may learn ,o fly on and up. He tumbles us down so that we may soar higher than the cliffs upon which we are born, higher than the mountains whose bald heads are frozen aaaid perpetual snows, and higher than even the morning clouds that have hovered over us in many benedictions. He treats us just as a true parent should always treat bis child. Some few weeks ago I was vis iting upon the ranch of a wealthy man in California. He turned and said to me: “No young man ever amounts to anything unless he is compelled to work for his own mental and physical and spiritual development. So firmly do I believe it is the mountain upon the man and not the man upon the mountain that brings man to the high est development for which God intend ed him that I have compelled my boys to work for every cent they have re ceived, even when they were little chil dren. I never give them anything without a return. If they want spend ing money they must earn It by paint ing the fences or cutting the wood or gathering the walnuts. If they want a gun or a riding horse they must buy It with their own money which they have earned. I have not told them that each year they have an $8,000 Income, which was left them by a dead rela tive, and that at twenty-one years of age they will be independently rich. I know that knowledge would ruin them. I make them work for every cent they spend. In their working 1 as well as to learn how to depend upon ourselves. We must learn to trust ourselves to the Heavenly Father's strength and care, as the eaglet trusts tlf mother bird. It is a lesson of de pendence as well as of effort. 1 had a lesson of this kind when, with my Arab guides, some years ago, I climbed the Egyptian pyramid of Cheops. Each stone of that pyramid is about ♦kve feet high and two feet wide. You Con eggs every year. A common queen ant lays eighty thousand eggs in a day. Herbert Spencer declared that if the cattle propagated themselves as rapid ly as the insect!le world the cattle would die of starvation in a week. But, though the human race does not reproduce itself as rapidly as the in- sectile world, or even as the cattle, yet, if allowed to live on this earth uninter- For Rent. FOR RENT—Storeroom on Robin- sno street, next to Cline’s stables. Webster & Jefferies. C-10-tf. poit KENT—O. C. Wilkins house and lot. Apply to lioo. M. Phifer. 5-3-tf. pt)K KENT—A five-room cottage. to J. I. f>arratt. Apply tf. , . . . . , ruptedly, it would soon he impossible __ give your outstretched hands to your for tbein . owilJt: memberH of the human KENT—Four-room house, near enough dusky guides. They pull and push you tn. grow ing mtumtrs or me human P m for (metory operatives. O. M. Smith. family to exist. • “ New generations come, and room must be made for them. The infant P Smith Hardware < 0. royal pedigree. By that word royal Qnj fjt.ypjopjrjjj- two of the finest boys 1 mean a noble, brave and fearless an cestry. The eagle Is not of heroic mold. He Is a cringing, fawning, con temptible coward. Though he Is a raptorial bird and loves to banquet off 40 inch White Lawns 40 inch White Lawn, worth 17c, this sale • I2j£c 40 inch White Lawn, worth 15c, this sale 10c All Colored Lawn worth 12J2C, this sale 10c All Colored Lawn worth loc, this sale 7/^c All Colored Law r n worth 8c, this sale 6c | Chifou Etamines, worth 25c. this sale 18c Ladies’ Gowns, worth 75c, this sale.... 4&c Ladies’Whi'e Underskirts, worth #1.25, this sale 98c Ladies’ White Underskirts, worth 75c, this sale 48c Black Mercerized Underskirts, wonh #2.50, this sale $i-9& Black Mercerized Underskirts, worth $2.00, this sale $L4& Black Mercerized Underskirts, worth $1.25, this sale 98c Children’s Straw Hats, worth loc, .^.this sale 5c Baby Shoes, worth 35c, this sale 24c Baby Shoes, worth 15c, this sale loc Ladies’ Oxfords from 48c to $2.98 Good Talcum Powders, worth loc, this sale 5c There^ are many other things that will be in this sale, Jhut we haven’t space to mention them; hut the feature of the sale will be mostly EMBROIDERY. We have purchased 3000 yards especially for this sale, if they are not the best values you have ever been offered in Gaffney we can’t ask you to buy. Cut this ad. out and bring it with you; use it for your buying list. Rememi>er the day and the date, Wednesday, June 15th. The Fair «The One Price Store CHAS. HALL, - - Manager Bee Our Window the quivering flesh of a newly slain carcass, the blood which flows through liis own arteries Is pumped from a cra ven heart. In terror this mighty wing ed flier will fiee before the little king bird, hardly larger than a bedwarfed English sparrow. Confined in a cage with a small barnyard fowl, the do mestic bird has been known to makej tin* eagle beg for mercy as a school yard bully will whine before an out raged youth half his size. “Many reputations are undeserved al together,” once wrote an observant naturalist. “Let us not in this con nection trouble now about statesmen, poets or authors, but take from natural history a familiar illustration, that of the eagle. The great strength of the eagle enables it to prey upon creatures that have no power of defending them selves from his terrible swoop, but we must not allow ourselves on this ac count. as our fathers did, to magnify him into a type of magnanimity and courage. In true courage he is not superior to most of the smaller hawks, and certainly inferior to the falcons, which will drive away this so calh*d ‘monarch of the air’ when he ap proaches too near their nests. So that, really, when we remember what a fame the eagle has always had foi magnanimity and for courage, it is obvious, in view of the facts, that he, like many other birds and men, has obtained a reputation which is unde served.” Euicle I'rotecta H1n Youhk- But, though the eagle is a cow r ardly bird in reference to bis own life, no sooner does he become a parent than he Is transformed into a daring, valiant protector of his young. No sooner are the dull white colored eggs deposited In the nest which the twain have build- ed upon the tops of the dizzy heights, or upon the ledge of a precipice, than the parent birds are ready to protect those nests at any cost. I remember years ago seeing a powerful picture called “The One Strand.” A moun taineer of the faroff northeast had been lowered over the side of a cliff to rob an eagles’ nest of Its eggs. Nc sooner w as he lowered by a rope over tbe cliff and dangling in midair, wdtb the surging sea hundreds of feet be neatb him beating its waves upon tbe jagged rocks, than tbe father and mother birds saw the would be de stroyer of their home. They started for their enemy. Aye, it was a royal battle—a battle for life. The eagles were circling about bis head. The sturdy mountaineer was swinging his knife round and round over his head. But once he swung the knife too far. The keen edge of the blade cut tbe rope, all but one strand. With horror stricken eyes be sawr that strand grad ually unraveling. The whole scene was so realistically portrayed that I could almost hear the triumphant screams of the parental birds as their human enemy was about to be dashed upon tbe rocks below. Yes, yes; parental affection trans forms tbe craven bird into a fierce, in trepid champion, capable of sublime self sacrifice in defense of Its offspring. Vet in our text we find him, In spite of that tender affection, disturbing the young birds and turning them out of their home. What does the Bible mean by comparing this strange con duct with God’s providential dealing. \\ hy does God, as a loving Father, treat his children In this seemingly rough w r ay as the eagle bird pushes her offspring? For you must remember that we do not have to go entirely to this figure of the eagle bird to be taught the lessous that God’s band sometimes smites a loving blow, as well as gives u loving caress. In tbe epistle to the Hebrews we are taught that chastisement is one of the proofs God gives us of bis affection. ’ “Whom tbe I,ord lovetb be ebasteoetb, and scourgetb every son whom be re- ceiveth.” In his famous sermon upon tbe mount Christ says there is a bless ing in falling tears and in persecutions and in heartaches and in all affliction •is well as in smiles and perpetual sun shine and Iridescent Joys. Work Makea Character. First, God, like the parental eagle, stirs up our nests in order that we may learn bow to depend upon our selves, as well as upon him. Ho In all this part of tbe country.” The Dead Heart Led On. That earthly parent is developing his | children by work. Cannot we realize God Is developing us spiritually, men tally and physically by work, and hard work? Why were the old Yankees, born amid tbe New England bills, and tbe old highlanders, born amid the Scot-1 tish heather, of the same heroic mold? We have read that In the chivalric j times the Scottish crusaders were be ing driven back, when an old highland chief took from Lis girdle the leathern bag which incased the heart of the dead Bruce. He flung it far into the ranks of tbe enemy, as he cried: “Thou brave heart of a mighty Bruce, lead us on to victory! Lead us on! Lead us on!’ ! Then the fleeing highlanders turned ind charged where the dead Bruce would have led them. Oh, how we thrill at the story of that mighty deed: But why did tin* Scotchmen and the Yankees of old belong to races of giants and the Latin people of Central America and of the southern parts of Portugal and Spain degenerate into a race of pygmies? Difference of blood? Perhaps. But I believe it was not so much a difference of blood as a differ ence of geographical surroundings. In tbe southern parts of Europe all that the inhabitants had to do for cen turies was to tickle the soil and It would laugh with plenty. While among those northern snow clad hills 1 not only did the inhabitants have to tight human enemies, but climatic ones. Any man who wrested a harvest from the New Hampshire valleys or from the Scottish highlands had by neces-: sity to be strong of brain and power fully muscled of arm. It was the cli matic obstacles which made the New Englanders and tbe Scottish clans the mighty men they were and are, and IP is trouble, great trouble, which always develops men. The old parental eagle pushes her fledgelings off the nest to teach her young how to fly. God pushes us one and all out into the abyss of fathomless trial to teach us how to take care of ourselves. God does not want to run a perpetual nurs ery. He wants to make us of men and women of fully developed powers. He disturbs us from our places of ease and comfort and thrusts us forth into scenes of conflict and difficulty in order that we may learn to use tbe spiritual powers with which we are endowed, and to teach us in dire extremity what infinite resources there are in him for every one of bis children who looks confidently up to him and cries, "Our Father.” Gel again stirs up our nests and pushes us off our eyries, as the eagle does Its young, to show us our limita tions as well as our possibilities. ’lit* eaglet has to learn what It cannot do as well as what it can do. It must be taught in one sense bow to depend upon itself; it must be taught in an other sense how it must depend up on the parent bird. Tbe Bible In the beautiful figure of my text pictures tb< old eagle, when the right time comes, stirring up tbe nest and pushing her young off the cliff. Oh, yes, that Is b.-autiful, but tbe next statement of the verse Is just as beautiful. When the young bird drops down and down and tbe fluttering wings grow weaker and weaker, then tbe fledgeling gives a faint, frightened call for help. Then what happens? Why, the old bird at once starts to tbe rescue. Swifter than any sea gull ever dropped into tbe wa ters to clutch a fish, swifter than ever a hawk pounced upon a chicken In the barnyard, the old mother bird starts to save her young. How? She swoops down below tbe fluttering eaglet and, rising with outstretched wings, re ceives It on her shoulders and bears It aloft Into safety. Is not this a beau tiful symbol of God’s care for his chil dren? The psalmist says, “He walketb upon the wings of the wind.” Yes; that is like the eagle. He pushes us off the nest, but he does not leave us to perish. He Is near, and underneath us are the everlasting arms. When we are losing our strength and cry to him, lie bears us up. Do you not see the beautiful teachings of my text? "As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadetb abroad her wings, taketh them, bearetb them on her wings.” A Lesaou of Dependence. The words of the text teach us that wt* mu t learn our limitations and bow to trust G< I, i'lel to depend upon God. pull and push up. Your head is dizzy with the awful abyss you can see beneath, but still they keep on pulling and pushing you up. You help them as much as you can. Without your help they could do nothing, but if you did not have their help you would be doomed. Like that of the English tourist who, a few years ago, tried to climb the pyramid alone, your body would soon be a man gled corpse below. As we must learn from the text tbe duty of depending upon ourselves, so we must also learn tbe duty of absolute dependence upon God. But there is still another great les son from the figure of an old parent eagle stirring up her nest. After the young birds have once been pushed ^1T the eyrie and learned their own limitations, and also learned to trust the parent, then they are ready to be taught by the parent birds by object lessons. When the eaglet once learns that if It does not obey tbe parent bird It will Ik* punished, then It will not only willingly, but after awhile gladly, obey what the mother and father bird teach it to do. First comes fear, then trust, then the attempt to Imitate and to do as tbe parent bird Joes. It has never been my privilege to see an old eagle teaching her young how to fly. but Sir Humphry Davy, the great English chemist, once saw this inter esting spectacle. He gives a full de scription of the scene. First, the eagles followed out exactly the picture of my text. The young birds, with fear and trembling, clung to tbe rocks where they were batched, but the old birds said to themselves: “This won’t do; this won’t do. These young birds must be taught to fly.” 80 the parent birds first tried to coax the young to leave the nest. Then, when coaxing accompllsh- *-Setf. KEN i' t he John White house, re:-ir leaves the cradle to a successor and be- smUh*. aD<l Jol,nwjI1 streets, conies tbe youth, tbe youth passes on Also my residence W. H. J-ii-tf S UITES of rooms to let in the star Theatre A. N. Wood. 3-i£2-tf Colt KENT—A good two-horse farm with a * neat five-room cottage. Apply at once to J. C. Lipscomb. 2-KS-tf Wanted. W ANTEO—To make straight loans on city real estate. No commissions. Several thousand dollars to loan. Apr2tl-tf I. 0. Jefferies. j to manhood and on to old age, and the . fV e * rwm cottage, with ail younger generations tread upon his ply to J. c. Jefferies. 4-1-tf heels at every step. At last be passes on into eternity. What then? The apostle says, “It doth not yet appear what we shall be,” but we know enough of that life to be full of hope. To those who through Christ have made peace with God there is the promise of continued development. “They that wait on the Lord,” says the prophet “shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles: they shall run and not be weary, and they shall walk and not faint.” In that heavenly state there shall be neither hunger, nor pain, nor weariness, nor sickness, nor death. Even tbe eagle, long lived as It is, grows old and dies, but there we shall live forever. And tbe love of our Father In heaven is eternal. Tbe eagle's affections are transferred from one brood to tbe next, but nothing can separate us from the love of God, whose heart Is large enough for all his children. Dread 'Sin Like a Serpent. Would you have such a future to an ticipate? Then let that power which God promises to impart come even now Into your life. The only thing that can blot out that prospect is sin WANTED Everybody to know that I put Typewriters in first-class shape at moderate cost. LUTHER SHERRILL, Gaffney, S. C. Money Loaned. L OANS on improved farms lor a term of years at seven per cent, interest. No commissions. For information apply to J. 0 Jefferies. Attornev at Law. ANNOUNCEMENTS Cards under this head will be In* Dread sin serted from now until the primary for as you would dread the bite of a ser $5.00 each for county officers; mag- pent. Theodore L. Cuyler, the grand '*trates’ announcements, $3.00. All old man of the Brooklyn pulpit, graph- fee8 must b® P aici ' n advance. ically described a scene which I have carried in my memory for many years. A peasant living upon the mountain side was on his way home in the even ing hour. Tired after a bard day’s work, be turned to look down the val ley which as a panorama stretched For the Legislature. With the experience I now have as a legislator, from the confidence the people of Cherokee county imposed in me two years ago, I feel that I would now be better able to represent , . q „h i«ft ■'*' — - * . their interests than ever before; and , . . , K : . ‘ , away at his feet. Suddenly he saw a up0 n this ground I hereby announce with their beaks. With their po erful ea gi e b< ^i n to lift itself myself a candidate for re-election to talons they scattered the nest. Then f ro , n a dmumt cliff. Higher and high- the House of Representatives, sub* they gave the young a btg push, and off eJ . lt roge( gorgeous amid the fires of ject to the rules of the Democratic the setting sun. Suddenly Its move- primary election. meats became labored. It struggled W. D. Kirby. and fought in midair and seemi*<l to be ^ Upon my record £” a legislator, I gasping for breath. I irst one wing be- b e r e b y announce myself a candidate ... came helpless, then the second wing. f or re-election to the general assem* Now, children, you Tljen the buge bir(lt u ke a Btone , shot b ly, subject to the decision of the the fledgelings went. Then the young were carried baik to the nest by tbe broad wings of tbe parent bird. The mother and father birds seemed to stop awhile to have a little talk. They seemed to say: must obey me, whether you will or no. tbr „ U j, b t be a j r an ,i fell dead almost at Democratic primary. And, as you must obey me I want you to do It willingly. I want you to fol low my every movement. See bow I raise my wings, so. I beat them In tbe air just so. And now I begin to circle round and round. Come, boys; come, girls. That Is right. Now, try again. Are you ready? Here we go up and up and up. See how easy it is.” Let me describe this object lesson in almost the same language with which Sir Humphry Davy described It when he saw the two old eagles, by their ac tions, teaching their young how to fly above the crags of Ben Nevis: “After the old birds had coaxed the eaglets off the eyrie they made small circles, which the young eaglets tried to Imitate. Then the parent birds made larger and larger circles In a gradually ascending spiral until tbe birds, old and young, were finally lost to view in the great heaven of blue." Ah, yes, the old eagles teach the young eagles to fly, first, by the sharp blow of the beak and the pushing off the nest; second, by tbe rescue and tbe bringing back to the nest; third, by the object lessons, which say: “Come, children, do as I am doing now. Ck)me, lift your wings as my wings flap, and go up and up.” God teaches us how’ to fly by pushing us off into the great abyss of trouble. He rescues us by the Infinite power of the atoning cross. He then teaches us how to go up and up and up by the object lessons of Christ’s earth ly life. Cbrist’a Life eu Object Leeeoe. Have you and I ever stopped to fully consider bow Christ's earthly life was meant to be an object lesson for sinful men, as tbe flapping wings of tbe old eagles are meant to be visible object lessons to tea« b the young eagles bow to fly? God did not tell us how to be good merely lu the abstract, but be tells us to be good as Jesus Christ was good, because Christ was born bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh and suffered as we suffer and was tempted as we are tempted. Thus Christ’s life is an object lesson to us in all our trial. We must do as be would do If he were In our place. He knows the hitter, weary way. The endless strivings, day hy day. The souls that weep, the souls that pray. He knows. He knows. But there Is still another lesson to be learned from tbe old eagle stirring tbe peasant’s feet. Tbe peasant could not understand the cause until Le went to the side of the bird and picked up tbe still warm corpse. Then to bis horror there wriggled from between W. Judson Sarratt. For Superintendent of Education. I respectfully ^ « election to the office of < bis lingers a tinj serpen a perintendent of Education, fastened itself under the bird s wing j L announce for re* County Su* Walker. For Treasurer. and sucked the life out of the “mon- arch of the ah».” So sin as a venomous, clinging serpent, tries to fasten itself upon us. The mightier winged we are 1 announce myself a candidate for the more anxious that satanic serpent re-election, subject to the rules of is for our life’s blood. But God will to- the Democratic primary. W. Harry Gooding, County Treas. For Auditor. day not only save us, as the mother eagle does her young, but be does more. Christ has given us his life In order to overcome the power of the serpent. He has died lu order that we might live. In this text of an eagle stirring up tbe Believing we need a change in the nest of her young cannot you feel tbe auditor s office, I hereby offer myself tduch of a saving Christ’ a candidate for the place, subject to I tmld send this gospel message the action of the Democratic primary. everywhere. The Episcopalian rector UMUeL reads the Scriptures on the Sabbath Feeling that my friends through* day, upon a lecturn made up of the out the county have the confidence outstretched wings of an eagle. Some in me that they have had heretofore writers declare that these eagle’s wings and soliciting a continuance of the symbolize St John’s inspired vision, same, I take pleasure in again an- whick beheld the heavenly glories, as nouncing myself as a candidate for the eagle’s eye looks into tbe light of r . e ^ 1 .® ctlon the dazzling sun. Others assert that Auditor, subject to the action of the u c niAU - Democratic primary election. those eagles symbolize the flight of the gosjjel message over the world. The last Interpretation to me Is the most beautiful. May this sermon not only have in it the message of God’s love, but may it have the speed which every gospel message should have—the speed like the lightning, which can bring to every sinful heart not only salvation, hut emancipation from sin. May God W. D. Camp. For Supervisor. I hereby announce myself as a can* dldate for Supervisor of Cherokee county, subject to the rules of the Democratic primary election. D. L. Vassey. I hereby announce myself as a bless us today as we use the eagle’s candidate for Supervisor of Cherokee eyrie for a pulpit. And as on eagle s wings we soar To sec the face of Christ once more May heaven come down our souls to meet And glory crown the mercy seat. [Copyright, 1904, by Louis Klopsch ] county, subject to tbe rules of the primary election. W. G. Austell. I hereby announcement myself a candidate for the office of Supervisor, subject to the action of the Demo cratic primary. Wm. (Chris) Phillips. For a change, R. M. Jolly for Su pervisor of Cherokee county. Steam Versus Electricity. The steam railroads vary greatly in their attitude toward electric competi tion, but It has been almost tbe uni form experience of railroad managers. j hereby announce myself a candi- east and west, that rate cuts to meet date for re-election to the office of electric competition are quite futile. Supervisor of Cherokee county, sub- Electric transportation handles traffic ject to the rules of the Democratic in small units. The power house is the Party. whoichoi locomotive, and it can haul ten single L-L.— vneiCD .-. cars as easily as It can a train of ten cars coupled together—more easily. In fact. But in steam service, to reverse I For Congress. am candidate for Congress, up her nest. She pushes out her young fl^ure of spe«*oh, each transporta- from tbe Fifth Congressional District, “ tiou unit must have ita own power subject to the result of the Demo- house. Disregarding technical refine- cratlc primary election. In order to make room for the next hatch of fledgelings. If she did not do this there would be only one brood hatched In the nest. Thus the eagle’s offspring would only consist of two or three or four young. But no sooner does tbe old eagle finish raising one family than she prepares to raise an other batch of fledgelings. Have you ever considered how soon this old earth would be overcrowded and an unlit place in which to live If God did not push the generations on and up? This Is an age of the slaugh ter of the Innocents. Life Is in mortal combat for life. The earth Is soaked with blood. The guillotine never stops its endless chop. Every lullaby has a corresponding death rattle Every cradle implies a grave. 80 rapidly can shell life propagate that one tiny cell can reproduce Itself one Thousand mil lion times in a month. A common cod fish lays l>etween eight and nine mil- ments, it may be said that It would cost a steam railroad five t ,f es as much to run an hourly single car train during a fifteen hour day as It would to run three five-car trains. That is the primary reason on the side of absolute cost which makes it impossible for a steam road to compete with an electric- road for light snort haul traffic.—Ray Morris in Atlanth . T. Y. Williams. Am Alrr HoaerMooa. Tbe following advertisement recently occupied a prominent place in the Ga zette de Zurich: “An Austrian officer of the balloon section wishes to marry a lady who will have the courage to make her bon eymoou voyage with him In a balloon.” Then followed an address in Vienna and an intimation that no anonymous letters would be considered. I Want Chickens You want Haim*. For Hold Hand and Star Ilame, call at my store and market near The Ledger and post- office. I sell cheap and pay the highest price for chickeiiK and egg-. I’hone No. 23 or 183. W.J.Maness,Prr