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I I J. F. GARRETT, JDentlst. Office Over The Battery. ’Phoue 82 Dr. D. P. THOMSON, Dentist. (^“Olllce over Cherokee Uruj: Co. A ii.m am .s. Ham,. J r. JAMES A. Willis. HALL & WILLIS, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, STAR THEATRE Bf.IUJ. • A I-r rs; I-C Y, ». CJ. Notary Puhllc in’ortli'e. Prompt attention (riven to all businesa. DR. W. K. GUNTER, I) IG 'P I Sri r Office in Star Theatre Building. Phonk No. 20. Crown and Bridge Work a specialty. WANTED! All yout clothes that need hri*rhtenln>.' up. 'brim; them to us. We will make them look fresh and new. All work done by expert tailors. See us and lolu our pressing 1 elub. ROBINSON & JONES, Tailors. Over W. U. Telegraph Office. Phone No. 4.'J. C. Eskridge B 4 U 1— “Have your]l)lM('ksmltliliiK l> <nc. s ■ rf.'.i’uaw All Smithing, Ironjand Wood Work none in'tirst-class style.andjat reasonable rates. ‘ ~ ‘i m (Fortenberry’s Old Stand . The j Remington 5 typewriter 'ZfxwttH (Qls acknowledged the world over as the Standard, and everybody knows it’s the best typewriter on earth. ^ ;"T I control the territory including part of North and South Carotina, and would be glad to take the matter up with you when in the market for any kind, or any price typewriter. (Will take your old type writer in exchange). We now supply Remingtons with any style type desired, fractions and other special charac- teWRm keyboards, with card cylinder, and Polychrome ribbon arrangements for “writing in red”—all at the catalogue price for machine complete. I will be in your town about once a month in the interest of the Remington Typewriters. In the meantime if you are interested in a typewriter, write me and I will come to see you, with brand new latest model Remington and demon strate same to you. We carry a big stock of latest model Remingtons in Charlotte, and can send you one on a moment’s notice, and will gladly do so if you wish to examine one for several days, p We sell all grades and kinds of carbon papers, typewriter oils, etc., and the Paragon—the best guaranteed ribbon— made for all kinds of typewriters, 75 cts. each. (We prepay postage). ^ Kindly write me when in any kind of typewriter trouble. Frank F. Jones, Charlotte, N. C. June 10 im. Dr. S. H. Griffith, PHYSICAN - SURGEON - OCULIST. Former pupil of the celebra ted Oculist, Dr. Julian J. 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, jt Office in Cherokee Drug Co.. B’ldg. 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. 1 heart pine Shingles and 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. Baker, Vice-President and Manager. FOR Building and Plastering Lime, Coal, and Plaster Hair, Plaster Parle, Shingles, Portland Cement, Dynamite, Blasting Powder, Fuse and Dynamite Caps, call on LIMESTONE SPRINGS LIMEJWORKS. CARROLL A CO., Lessees. Telyhone 67. Kodol Dyspepsia Cups Pin—U what you —t. BA W W E R 8A LVE the meet healing salve In the world. Calm age Sermon By Rev. Frank DeWitt Talmage, D. D. Los Angeles, Cal., June 20.—To the | discourage*!, to those who have made I what the world calls a failure of life ns well as to the impatient and dis- satisfied, this sermon conveys a prac-1 tical lesson. The text Is Exodus xiv, 13, “Stand still and see the salvation of tfie Lord.” To fall back, in order to go forward; to retreat. In order to advance; to evacuate, in order to conquer; aye, that is the course most great military chief tains have had to take, at least once in life, before they won their ultimate triumphs. Such a line of tactics won for our nation that independence the . anniversary festival of which we are I soon to celebrate. George Washington it Yorktown would never have been possible had there not first been a Washington’s retreat from Long Is land. When General Mifllin, with a small dftaehmout of troops acting as sentinels over wooden guns, deceived the British army while the American troops. In a dense fog, quietly paddled past Loral Howe’s fleet and slipped! tlirotigli the fingers of Sir Henry Clin ton. America’s liberties were rescued; from almost certain strangulation. Had Washington stayed to obstinately hold his ground after the bloody battle of Long Island, the American army would have been annihilated or captured. It is not always a good plan for a general | to rut fils bridges behind him. Had I there been no retreat from Bohemia after the battle of Kolin, and no evacu ation of Berlin after the slaughter ot Kunersdorf, there would have been no | humiliation of a Maria Theresa, and no Frederick the Great, whose name has been the marvel not only of Prussia, but of all Europe and the civilized 1 world. Nathanael Greene, tin* mighty military leader of the Revolutionary war, second only In power to George Washington, was aptly called “The Great Kotreatcr.” He never won a decisive battle in his Ufa-. So it lias been witn other military chieftains. There is strategy in eluding a foe whose strength is superior. Many a general has ka-pt tin* field and worn out the patience of an enemy lay avoiding a decisive battle and in the end lias proved victorious. Can Do NotlilnK but 'Walt. There may come times in the battle of life when a man is to fight, and times when a man is to run. There also come other times when a man is* to be like a Moses “encamped before Pi-hahiroth, between Migdol and the sea, over against Baal-zephon.” On the one side of him was the Red sea, on the other side of him were the pursuing hosts of the Philistines. He could not run. There was no place to run to. He could not fight Pharaoh. He knew ho would have been annihilateil in the conflict. He could do nothing but wait. He had to “stand still and see the sal vation of the Lord.” Moses was like Sir Henry Lawrence, entrapped in the residency of Lucknow during the sepoy rebellion of 1857. For three long months the little English garrison, surrounded by a hundred thousand murderous de mons, had to do nothing but wait They just kept on waiting for the rescuers, who fought their way up from Calcutta under the leadership of that hero of heroes, Sir Henry Havelock. Moses was like General Charles George Gordon, who for ten long months just had to wait and continue to wait in tlae besieged city of Khartum, and then gave up his life only a few days before the English rescuers hove in sight. Moses was like the foreigners, praying and hoping and hoping and praying in tlae missionary compounds of Peking, waiting for the allied troops to deliver them from their Impending fate during the Boxer uprising of Chi na in 1900. They were too strong as a body to have to surrender. They were not strong enough as a body to fight their way to the English ships. And so, hemmed in and driven in on all sides, they just stood their ground fighting for their existence by day and sleeping on their guns by night. They were waiting—simply waiting. They were standing still, to see the salvation of the Lord. Very easy it is for most of us to gc forward in the battle of life when the divine command is given clearly and distinctly: “Charge! Let the whole line charge!” Easy it is for most of us to retreat when the command is given clearly and distinctly: “Fall back! Let the whole line fall bacW” But it is another matter for us to stand still. It Is another matter to patiently wait. Yet waiting is a very great element in spiritual success, as it is in temporal success. How much a factor is “the waiting crisis” in the successes of life can be well learned in the words which Dr. Cuyler taught a few years ago. when he said, “1 have been conversant in my time with thousands of failures of talented men, both in New York and Brooklyn, and 1 can bear testimony that ninety-nine hundredths of all those failures were, without doubt, due to the lack of patience, both in a spirit ual sense as well as in a temporal.’' It Is to teach the important lessons o! sanctified patience that 1 am preach ing this sermon. The waiting crisis comes to thou sands upon thousands of faithful men and women in the struggle for a finan cial existence. It comes not to the lazy, good for nothing human beluga who think the world owes them a liv ing, and, therefore, they do nothing !t comes not to the tramps, the loafers the deadbeats, who. as <b great highway si‘.,s oi relicts on the i .e, are a menace to all with whom they come in touch. But it conies i>» the young man who gets up promptly t ti o’clock and goes to the store i mii-tunlly on time. It comes to the e mscientious lawyer and doctor and mechanic who are striving with all their power to do right. It comes to men and women who in every sense tire noble, who always seem to be on the verge of making u great success and yet never seem to be quite able to reach the goal. Mnn;- Are True, but Unfortunate. These men are true and good men, but unfortunate men. They are what worldly people call “unlucky.” We know there is no such thing as luck. Men are not lucky or unlucky, but there are some who seem to have more mis fortunes than others; who, through no fault of their own, miss the good tilings of lift*. The strong man triumphs over them, but as the world witnesses his struggles under successive strokes of adverse fortune it calls him “unlucky.” When old Mayer Anselm Rothschild, the founder of the famous banking laousa* of Frankfurt-on-the-Rbine, was dying, he called his children about him and gave to them this parting advice: “First, my sons, never plan any great movement without first consulting your mother; second, never have anything to do with an unlucky man.” Mark this! Anselm Mayer Rothschild dial not say, “Do not have any business dealings with a dishonest man.” lie took that for granted. But he did say “an unlucky man.” You know who is that unlucky man. He is yourself. You are unlucky in the fact that just as you were about to go to college your father died and you were taken out of school and had to go to work. You are unlucky in the fact that just after you had saved up a little money and put it In tlae bank the cashier became a de faulter and you lost all. You are un lucky in the fact that just after you had learned to be a good draftsman and had a fine position about to be of- fered you fell and broke your arm or had your fingers cut off by having them caught in the cogs of a factory wheel and you had to start life all over again. You are unlucky because just as you were about to be appointed to a certain position an enemy lied about your character as an enemy lied about a young friend of mine who was about to become pastor of a prominent church in the east. Though your char- neter in one sense was vindicated, yet the damage was done. Another step- ped In and got tin* place, even as the poor Invalid at tin* pool of Bethesda was pushed aside by others again and again when the angel of health “went lown at a certain season into the pool and troubled tin* waters.” After hav ing been repeatedly struck down by misfortune after misfortune you are today on the verge of complete despair. You are saying to yourself: “Oh, I am always unlucky! What is the use of nay trying any longer?” lie I'Mtlent, Not DlMroarnsed. 1 dseournged, are you? “Yc»s,” you mutter, “fearfully discouraged!” You have conscientiously done your level best? “Yes, I have done my level best. I can do nothing more.” Oh yes, j’ou can, nay brother. You can let Goal now come and do the n*st. You are simply •encamped before I’i-hahlroth, between Migdol and tlae sea, over against Ihaai- zephon.” Goal is going to open a way for you through tlae R»*d sen to escape tin* pursuing Philistines. How? I do not know. This, however, I do know. God will resale you if you are patient, only patient. He will, If like Job amid the traganly of a wrecked home and amid a ruined fortune and in tlae agonies of physical as well as mental pain, you can say, and still continue to say, "Though he slay me, yet will I trust him.” God will show to you a Jin-a-t means of escape if you will only stand still just where you are and con tinue to look for the salvation of the Lord. You may not now think it, but all tilings, even amid tlae greatest dis couragements, all tilings are working together for good to them that love the Lord. After the darkest of nights there always conies the brightness of a light giving dawn. Amid the blackest of troubles there will always come a pil lar of fire to lead God’s children to a promised land. Trust him, brother. Continue to trust God. Be patient. Just go on and continue to do your level best. All tilings will ultimately come out right if you do. That is the teaching of this grand old text, “Stand still and see tlae salvation of the Lord.” But there is another class of hearers I find today encamped among the Is- raelltish hosts near Pi-hahiroth. They are the men and the women who are not necessarily struggling for a finan cial existence, but who are unhappy and dissatisfied with the fields in which God has compelled them to labor. They know they could do better work amid other surroundings. Or they are say ing to themselves: “I do not know why it is that all my labors should be mis construed and unappreciated. If God does not open to me another field of work soon I shall drop this position anyhow.” Do Yonr Work the Beat You Can. Going to give up your present posi tion? You say you are not happy In it? Don’t you do it, my brother. What you need in life in this waiting crisis of yours is a great big invigorating dose of patience. Stand still Just where you are, and do your work the best way you can and see the salvation of the Lord. God does not, as a rule, call his workmen from nothing to something great, but from a small position of Influence to a higher position of In fluence. When Christ wanted to select his cabinet and to fill the apostolic po sitions of the “fishers of men,” he did not go into the market place, where he could find the loafers idling around. He went down to the shores of Lake Galilee and found two stalwart men easting their nets into the sea. He said to Peter and Andrew, his brother, “Follow me, and I will make you fish ers of men.” It is nearly always a hard struggle for a man in a small po sition to climb up into a higher posi tion. But it is nearly always an al most impossible struggle for a man out of a job to be called to a fine position. Christ uttered sound philosophy when he said in his parable: “Take therefore the talent from him and give it unto him who hath ten talents. For unto every one that hath shall be given and lie shall have abundance, but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which lie hath.” It is easy enough for the pastor of a successful church of New York to bo called to a prosper ous church of Chicago. But a minister without a pulpit, though he be a giant among preachers, lias an almost insur mountable undertaking to be called to any strong pulpit. The man without a job is a naan whose failure is stamped upon his brow, and every one looks at him with suspicion. Be patient. Every thing will come out all right. Just be patient. Not an Important an We Think. But there is still another reason why I do not want you to give up that po sition which seems to fret you. As far as I can make out, you are getting in life just about us much as you de serve. Instead of complaining, you Duglat to get down on your knees and thank God for the position which he lias given to you. Why should you axpeet God to make you his favorite rtiild anal allow you to rest upon a bed >f roses? Are you any different from any of his other children? Are you so smart or so good or so humble that fou have a right to expect more than they? Instead of grumbling about four small position, you should see men, in every way your superiors, physically, mentally and spiritually, oc cupying smaller positions than you. Be patient in that work God lias given to you. Most of us—aye, perhaps all of us—have all we deserve in life, and more too. If God wants us to go high er, he will open the way. If he does not open the way, then let us do what he wants us to do. You and I are not so important or so brilliant or so per fectly sanctified as some of us think we are. In order to impress upon you tlais fact, I would read to you a quaint piece of poetry by James Whitcomb Riley. It lias helped and encouraged me much in life. I hope the reading will make you contented in tlae field of labor to which God has called you to work. The signs ai - e bad when folks commence A-finding fault with Providence And balking 'cause the world don't shake At every prancing step they take. No man is great till he can see How less than little he would be If stripped to self, and stark and bare He hung his sign out anywhere. My doctrine is to lay aside Contentions and be satisfied. Jest do your best, and praise or blame That tollers, that counts Just the same. I’ve allers noticed great success Is mixed with trouble, more or less. And it's the man who does the best That gets more kicks than all the rest. But, roaming in and out among the Israelitish hosts encamped at I’i-hahi- roth, I find the ranks of the Mosaic ar my cursed and retarded with hangers on. There were many brave men in that army. Men there were like Josh ua and Caleb, but there was also a host of lazy, good for nothings, as in every army, who expected others to do all tlae work. When the tents were to be lifted, they were not there; when the manna was to be collected, they were like tlae five foolish virgins who wanted to borrow the oil of the five wise virgins. And so today when I see a strong, willing man I inevitably see a lot of human leeches clinging to that naan as barnacles stick to a ship’s hull. Furthermore, today I see scores and hundreds of you hardworking men and women rebelling at the injustice by which others are trying to live off the results of the sweat of your brow. Let me illustrate my thought by drawing a verbal picture of what we all know to he true: There are four of us boys, all brothers, born In a humble farmhouse away back in the country. Two of my brothers and myself are just happy-go-lucky boys. Oh, yes, we work hard when we work, but we work just as little as we can, and when we have a dollar we always spend the whole dollar. If there is a country dance, my two brothers and I always go there. If a leisure hour, you can al ways find us lying around the village store or playing pranks upon the boys. We are not bad; we are just ordinary, happy-go-lucky, everyday boys. We are like most of boys. We do what we are told to do and do nothing more. The Succeunfal Man'* Burden. But I have a brother Jack. The young folks say he is queer and mean and stingy. Some people say he is crazy. My brother Jack is not lazy. He works Just us hard ns we do, but when he makes a dollar, Instead of spending that dollar as we do, he saves it or goes and buys some books. In stead of loafing about the village store in the evening Jack is always home studying. If lie Is not crazy, Jack is certainly queer. One day Jack comes in and tells us he is going to teach winter school in order to go to college. We think then he is crazier still. Aft er awhile Jack, by working all his sum mers and all winters, gets through col lege, and then comes home and tells us that he is going to the law school. We think he is crazier still. After awhile Jack, by years of self sacrifice and hard work, is graduated. Then he goes to New York city. After awhile my brother Jack pushes his way to the front of the New York bar. W’hat is the result? Do we hoys praise Jack for his labors? Do we say, "If we had worked as lie worked we could be where he is?” Perhaps. But that is not the general rule of the average family. We immediately begin to com plain because Jack doi.» not send us money and help to support us. We take from him all we can get. And so, wUen any man honestly tries to make a success out of life, he immediately has 11 lot of indigent, selfish, lazy folks about him trying to live off the results of his hard earned toil. Some one listening to 1111* says, “Yes. that is so.” Then you turn and say: "What shall I do alaout my drunken brother's family? Shall I pay any more money to let him keep on drink ing?” “What shall I do about my daughter?” says another. "I do not want her to leave her husband, and yet I certainly do not want to keep on supporting both of them in their foolish extravagances.” “What shall I do about my wayward boy?” says another. “Shall I let him go to the dogs and not support him any longer?” “What shall I alo in reference to that lazy partner?” says another. “He won’t work, and yet he expects half of the profits.” “What shall 1 do in ra*forenee to my husband?” says a troubled wife. “He is always loafing around or entering into wildcat spec ulations which bring us in nothing to support the family.” “What shall I do in reference to my wife?” says a troubled husband. “She spends my money right and left. She is more in terested in euchre parties than in tlae economy of the home. Shall I leave her?” What shall you do, my friends? Well, I am not here to tell you in de tail, hut tills I do assert in general: Do not let the injustices of tlae past blind your eyes to the pressing duties of the present. Because your kith and kin and business partners have been and are now doing wrong to you, do not you do wrong to them. Be pa tient. Be careful, and if you must err let it be upon the side of mercy. God does not tell you to weigh the past so much as to conscientiously solve the pressing responsibilities directly at hand. “Stand still” before you snap the golden cords of affection which bind you to that wayward sister, that wayward brother, that wayward child, that wayward husband. “Stand still” If you do not know what to do. “Stand still and see the salvation of the Lord.” Be very patient when sickness conies and old age comes and the wearing faculties of mind and body seem to un fit you for the active duties of life. Be very patient when you seem to be like an old. womout horse turned out upon the commons to eat a little and sleep a little and live a little longer and then die. Some of us with great gusto in the days of our youth used to sing in Sun day school that old hymn: Oh. to be nothing, nothing, Only to lie at his feet, A broken and empty vessel. For the Master's use made meet. The IliKht Time to Die. But when the advancing years pass on, and by sickness or old age we seem to be laid away upon the shelf as use less by a busy world, then most of us do not appreciate tlae petition of that song prayer. We do not want to be “nothing, nothing.” We want to be “something, something,” and have that something a very active “something.” Sometimes at the funeral of a strong man we see a suggestive floral tribute in a broken column. That means the man died In his prime. That means, most of us say, “Is it not too bad that lie had to go when he had so much to live for?” But I do not think it takes nearly as much divine grace to die in your physical and mental prime as It takes to live on in physical invalidism or in decrepit old age. In the first in stance a Christian man like a warrior is struck down at a blow. In the sec ond instance a man is like an aged veteran In a soldiers’ home, like a Job’s war charger smelling the battle from afar and yet not able to answer the bugle call for the grand charge. The saddest scene during all my stay in the west was when in the Methodist Epis copal conference five noble men who had served their church as bishops long and faithfully were retired and placed upon the superannuated list. But, as God has placed some of you upon the great "waiting list” as physical or mental ineffectives, be patient. Trust him. Even in your retired field of wait ing you have a work to do. It will all come out right. Yes, sick one and aged one, it will all come out right You may not be able to understand God’s ways now, but it will all come out right. Thus today, as the “waiting” lesson is the hardest of all gospel lessons to learn, I am going to close in the beau tiful words of one whose poem has been very near and dear to me. I am preaching against my own impatience Just as I am against yours. I know that a parent can never bring his child up right unless he teaches that child to learn to trust him and wait; there fore no child of God can ever trust God unless he is at times ready to “stand still and see the salvation of the Lord.” These verses embody the whole thought of my text: When my hoy with eager questions, Asking how and where and when. Taxes all my store of wisdom. Asking o'er and o’er again Questions oft to which the answars Give to others still the key, I have said, to teach him patience, Wait, my little one, and see. And the words I taught my darling Taught to me a lesson sweet. Once when all the world seemed darkness And the storm about me beat. In the children's room I heard him. With a child's sweet mimicry, To the baby brother's questions Saying, wisely, “Walt and see.” Like an angel's tender chiding Came the darling's words to me. Though my Father's ways were hidden. Bidding me still, “Walt and see.” What are we but restless children. Ever asking what shall be? And the Father. In his wisdom. Gently bids us "Walt and see.” [Copyright, 1904. by Louis Klopsch.] ♦ENGINES. ♦ We have a full stock of the well-known Farquhar Threshers amt Ajax Portable Engines and can make prompt shipment. Prices right. Catalogue on request. GIBBES COMPANY, Columbia, 5. C. This Always Tens It. Hla Nickname. "Why do you call your little baby brother Radium?” asked the precocious boy’s uncle. "Because father and mother think he's worth about a million dollars, but nobody else does.’’—Washington Star. 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You could tell the same story just as effectively to every reader of this paper in each issue. You do not believe it would have the same ef fect? If you told the story in the ssme way it would. We are ready to do our part to prove it. Do yoe care to try it?