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your. He new r impressed me as one who had a very brilliant mind.” "No,” you answer, “he h w not. He is not a Rufus Choate nor a William Wirt nor Inh nor a Pinckney, pood, fair lawyer, is an honest man. n Los Angelos, Cal., March li>.—What the whole world esteems, yet what only the few strive for; what a man rever ences and values as priceless, yet often flings away, and what every one wishes to bequeath to his children is the subject of today’s sermon, the text chosen being Proverbs xxii, 1, “A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches.” What is capital? "Money, property or stock employed in trade, manufac ture, etc., the sum invested or lent as distinguished from the iucome or in terest,” is the definition given by the lexicographer. It is wealth producing .wealth, not wealth being absorbed or being eaten up by expenses. When Clarence Bowen, the New York editor and multimillionaire, was a young man he put his savings in a bank for safe keeping. When he went to draw that money out b received a certain amount of extra money. “What is that for?" asked the young man. “This is interest money,” said the cashier. “This is money earmnl by money.” “Then,” said Bowen, "if money earns money, the more I save the more 1 will earn." The money Clarence Bowen put away in bank at interest was his capital. But capital, according to the lexi cographer's definition, is not represent ed in gold ingots or coin only. I climb with the miner a hillside in Colorado or Nevada. He points to some rock and says, “There are millions of dol lars worth of gold buried here.” “Why do you not get it out?” “Because,” he answers, “I have no capital. 1 must have machinery t) break the rocks; I must have miners to burrow into yon der depths; I mu ;t have money to cart away my ore to the smelting furnace. Money must be had before you can produce money. ’ I go into a st< - e and see at work the bus}’ manager jf a great mercantile firm. I say t< him: “Why are you Working for others? Why do you not work for yourself? If you are smart enough to manage a business for other men, certainly you are smart enough to manage a business for yourself.” “Aye, aye,” answers the manager; “that is true. But I have not the mon ey to start a business like this. 1 must have hundreds of thousands of dollars to sink before I can make a cent I must buy my goods from the wholesale dealer before 1 can sell them to my | customers. I must rent a store and ! hire clerks and spend enormous sums for advertising. All these outlays de- j mand a large amount of capital.” Capital represents the seed and the i laud, to use an illustration of the farm. Income represents the harvests. The | farmer must own or hire his farm and plant his seed before he can get his harvests, or his income. Now, as the , farms and the miner's machinery and | the merchant’s stock are nearly always j valued from the standpoint of money, it is a common custom to give these sentences as truisms: "it takes money to make money.” “Everything ani mate as well as inanimate will bow before the scepter of gold.” “Midas’ touch has in his hand the grip of iron.” But today the author of my text em phatically says: “The best producing capital a man ever had in life is a good name. It is better than all the silver of the Leadville mines, than all the dia monds of (lolcouda, than all the gold of the Comstock bonanza, than all the pearls of the Persian gulf. Pile up the gold ingots of the United States treas- • tiry vaults on one side of the scale and put a good name on the other side of the scale, and the good name will outweigh the gold.” If a good name is such a priceless treasure, let us begin to study why its wealth Is of such vast value. Its producing capital must be and Is enormous. If it were not so, King Solomon, up to his time the wealthiest as well as the wisest man who ever lived, would not have made this inspired statement in his book of Proverbs. Value of a Good Xume. A good name, in the first place, Is not a pauper. Her mansion is not the poorhouse. Her wardrobe is not filled with rags. Her family plot is not a potter’s field. As a rule, she has a comfortable house to live in. Her sit ting room has a glowing fireplace. Her library shelves are filled with books. “She is not afraid of the snow for her household, for all her household are clothed with scarlet” “She is like the merchant ships—she bringeth her food from afar.” “Her husband is known in the gates when he sitteth among the elders of the land.” For what her hand findeth to do she doeth with all her might. She gathereth the rewards of an earnest and practical Industry. She Inevitably giveth to the holder of her family name all the necessities tot a happy competency and a healthful physical and mental existence. You can see this fact demonstrated in almost every department of life. “Honesty Is the best policy,” whotker it is found within church walls or down in the busy commercial section of a great city. My text does not say, “Be good, and you will be financially poor.” Oh, no! If it did, that state ment would not be true. It would not pe true in professional life, in mer cantile life or in domestic life. I go jto you hnd say: "Why is Judge Ho-and ■o the - leader of the brilliant bar of *one of lour great cities? They tell me that hi* practice Is worth $50,000 a -.as .in Edmund Han He is, however, But, above ail, On account of his honesty his clients leave their property to him as their executor, often without bonds. When men go to him with legal difficulties they know his chief purpose is to keep them out of the law courts rather than to push them in. Others lawyers may be more brilliant mentally, but Judge So-and-so holds his clients to him with links of steel. They all know he will look after their interests as though they were his own.” Why does your family physician have such a largo practice? You trust him not only as a good doctor, but as an honest man. You know when he is called he will not put you to bed for an attack of grip and call it pneu monia and charge you .SI00 to cure you of a disease you never had. You know he will not run up useless bills against you, ns some dishonest deutists do, who, if they cannot find any cavities boons offered to man, whether he lives in your teeth, will bore holes into them i *n a palace or a but. living an ordinary lire in uu uiuiuary pine'. Therefore if you are kind and loving and gentle and forgiving and helpful to your fellow men they will be kind and loving and forgiving and gen tle ind helpful to you. Why? Because each day of y nr life you come into personal touch with your little wor'd, and the friends ami Hie people of your community see you Just as you are. Would you t like to be loved by the people of the community in which you live? When you go to sleep tonight, would you not like to feel that some tired, sick woman who is tossing around on her bed unable to sleep is smiling over Hie good cheer you brought her this afternoon by your visit and is saying, "God bless you, God bless you?” Would you not like to have peo ple always speaking your name and saying. “No one is ever in trouble, but be Is ready to help them if he can?” You can win this love if you will. Come, get a good name for kindness and love. Come, make the people by whom you are surrounded love you. The love of those with whom we come In contact is one of the most priceless Just to send you a bill to make you support them and their families. You know that yonder merchant has a large business not because be offer*'better goods than his rivals, but because you can believe his statements in reference to those goods. Indeed, I go further than my original assertion in refer ence to my text. A good name is more often found in a comfortable home than it is in a hovel. Where Good Maine* Are Found. “Seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added unto you.” That means clothing, food, home, education. As a rule, all these blessings accom pany the industry of a good name. In order to win a good name, sacrifices you will have to make. In order to w.’Ji the battle of Waterloo, Wellington had to make awful sacrifices. A short time after his famous conquest the English commander wrote to a dear friend as follows; “What do you think of the total defeat of Bonaparte by the British army? Never was there in the annals of the world so desperate or so hard fought an action or such a defeat. It was really the battle of the giants. My heart is broken by the terrible loss I have sustained, of my old friends and companions and my poor soldiers.” In the battle of Waterloo, in which you have to struggle for a good name, you will have to make many sacrifices, us did Wellington. But, as a rule, you will not have to suffer poverty, hunger, homelessness and cold. A good name is Avon by industry, frugality, purity, Taking another step forward in my subject. I declare that a good name is the most glorious of all inheritances Avhich a man can leave to bis children. It means more, infinitely more, than gold. It means more than fame, more than social position, more than landed estate. It means more than anything else on earth that you can give. Most of us want to leave our children the best we can. We must not forget to give them this treasure, which is of more value “than great riches.” The Greatest of Inheritances. How can parents financially poor leave lo their children the greatest of inheritances? I.et me explain more in detail. The adjective “good” comes from the substantive “God.” To be “good” in the highest sense means to be “goodlike*” or "like Christ.” There fore, when a father bequeaths to his sou a “good name” he gives to him, in the highest sense, a Christian example well lived. lie seems to step to ins hoy’s side and put his hand in his boy’s hand and say: "My son, I want you to come with me and kneel in prayer. I want you to come Avith me and learn to read the promises of God in his holy hook. My son, Avhen sinners entice thee I want to tell you AA-here I have found strength in the past to resist temptations. And when sorrows come, as come they Avill, I Avaut you to learn where you can find God as a refuge and strength." Side by side Avith their children the Christian parents walk. Side by side they go with them through life. Long after the parents have pil honesty and doing with all your heart lowe(1 tlK , ir ii 0a( i s in t he dust the mem- md mind what your hand finds to do. These characteristics of man, earnest-1 ly and faithfully followed through life, ' Avill inevitably laud a man in a better place than the poorhouse or potter’s j field. It does not follow because you [ are financially poor that you are holy; ' it does not follow because you live in a j palace that you are a rascal. Beau ! Brummel died a pauper; Peter Cooper j lived In a rich man’s mansion. But a good name does more than pay your butcher's and baker’s and grocer’s j and clothier’s bills. It does more than ] give you a title deed to the house in j Avhich you live. It offers to you the most priceless gift on earth, next to j the gift of Jesus Christ, the love of your family and your friends and the love and respect of the community in Avhich you live. There is an old prov erb which says: “A man cannot live on love nlouTk When poverty knocks at the door love flies out of the win dow.” Poor proverb that! The richest home on earth Avhere love is not is poorer than the poorest man’s hovel where love dwells. The love of a com munity is yours if you Avill earn it with the deeds and Ioa’os ''f a good man. If you Avere a great man, a truly great man. I could not say this. One of the heavy prices a truly great man, as a rule, has to pay for his greatness is to suffer misrepresentation and slan der and hate. Most of the contempo raries of John Milton never could ap preciate the true Avorth of the blind sage, Avho In the black exile of national contempt had to go to his study for comfort until his blinded eyes saw more of the glories of heaven than the tAvo eyes of any inspired Avriter have ever seen since apostolic times. Many a soiled statue in Westminster abbey could b® washed as white as the driven snow If It were only possible to col lect ah the tears Avhich once fell from the eyes of those whose bodies are now ; sleeping under yonder cold marble, j Those tears Avere shed in the days of, neglect and ostracism and poverty. Only the other day I ran across an ed itorial Avrltten by one of the most fa mous of northern Avrlters, Avho after ward became one of the greatest eulo gists of our martyred president Abra ham Lincoln. This editorial was Avrit- ten in the heat of the civil war. “Any man Avho Avould go down to Washing ton and shoot the stupid fool in the White House Avould be conferring an ories of their good names or their Christian examples live on to guide their offspring. Are you not going to leave to your children the inheritance of a good name or a Christian exam ple, such an inheritance as that which your fathers and mothers left to you? If any young men and women need to be held to the cross of Christ by the Christian example of a parent’s life, trusting in God and being aa’IUi God, those children of yours need it. They have exactly the same kind of tempera meut that you have. They are high strung. They are impulsive. They can be easily SAvept off their feet by success and discouraged by defeat. What are they going to do in “the swellings of the Jordan?” My brother, even Avith all the advantages of the Christian surroundings of your boy hood, still you have had a hard strug gle. What, then, art your children go ing to do Avhen temptations assail them? They have never seen their fa ther kneeling in prayer or walking Avith Christ. They have never thought that you hud a divine succorer. “A good name" as an inheritance? Why, It is simply priceless in value. Is not, for your children, a good name rather to be chosen than great riches? But, if our good names are essential to our children after we are dead, how much more essential are they for us when we step out from this life into tlie next! The heaviest money bag that was ever secreted In the dark vaults of the rich man who despised the poor Lazarus groveling on his pal ace steps cannot be carried by him or his friend one single Inch beyond his grave. Do you not think it an absurd thing for a rich man to struggle and to keep on struggling for something he cannot keep over a few years at best? This money may and in all probability will do his children a damage after he is gone. It is an old saying that “shrouds have no pockets,” yet many men seem to live as though their shrouds would be different from all other shrouds or that they Avould live on forever and ne\'er have a shroud. Death la Sure. But, though death may postpone its coming, death Avill surely come. Now, my friends, what are you going to do for your open sesame of heaven? I grant that your name may be a very important one on earth. How impor- inestimable serA’lco on the American tant it is but foAA’ of us, cacu the hum- people Avere it not for the fact there blest, realize. We are all Americans. »ncl Avere given two or tne best seats. Ah, the word “America” is a magic Avord in European lands' But, when aa’c take that last voyage and pass oA-er the sea of eternity, think you that any national name or any family name or any earthly name Avill open to tis the gates of heaven? Oh, no! We must haA’O royal blood in our veins. We must bear the family name of the King of kings or else avo shall ncA-er he allowed to enter heaven. W'e must have a “good name.” That means avo must be “godlike.” We must be “like Christ” My friends, if I were you, I AA’ould not center my heart and soul in acquiring a f< av more government bonds and a few more railroad stocks and a feAv more bank receipts. You do not need them and will never be able to spend them. Struggle today to get that priceless name, which moth and rust Avill not corrupt and which death as a thief will not break into your strong box and steal. But if the divine name of Jesus will giA’e to us "abundant entranee” into the heavenly kingdom it will also give to us a mighty spiritual success in tills world in Avhich we live. W’hen the am bassador of Germany comes to our na tional capital the president sIioavs to him exactly the same respect and deference as if he were King William. Why? At that audience truly lie stands in the place of his royal master. At the national inauguration the near est seats to the president elect are those of the ambassadors who repre sent the kings and the queens and the powers from across the sea. So when you and I hear a good name avg be come the ambassadors of the Lord God Almighty. God Avill work through us. God AA'ill be in us. A Frleml In M’eed. Is this bearing the name of the Lord God Almighty to you a meaningless figure? Will you not at least rejoice in it as much as you would for bearing the name of a human friend in your hand? You remember some years ago your business was going absolutely to pieces. You did not knoAV which way to turn. The bills were coming in and had to be paid or you Avould he flung j into the bankruptcy court. All night long you kept walking the floor. You kept saying to yourself: “Oh, God, what shall I do? What shall I do?” The morning broke, hut that morning was as black to you as midnight. Sud denly there came a ring at your door bell. You thought it was one of your creditors. The hammer of that bell struck your bralu as though it was a butcher’s bludgeon. The parlor door opened. At first you were too dazed to look up. But when you looked you saw not a creditor, but a dear old friend —perhaps a father, a brother or a Jonathan. “Harry,” said he, “I hear you are in financial trouble. You know I have lots of property. Well, here is a blank cheek to which I have signed my name. You can draw on me for all you need. God bless you, my boy. Goodby. You Avill come out all right.” What did you do? Did you thank him? Oh, no. You were too deeply moved for that. Yon just cried like a little child. Then you brushed your tears away and went forth to meet your creditors. Oh, your head was up; your step was firm; your lips Avore a happy smile. In your hand you bore the name of your friend Avho had financial ly saved you. When God gives to ns a good name he gives to us a pledge that lie will see us through all the struggles of life. He says: “The sheep upon a thousand hjjis are mine. The gold buried in the deepest mines is all mine. The winds obey my voice. All that I have is thine. I will, if necessary, give It thee in this struggle of life.” Oh, my friends, can not you today feel that God is back of you when lie gives to you the offer of a “good name?” Will you bear the name of Christ as your Saviour’s name? Will you bear it upon your forehead? Will you allow your name to be engraved in the palms of his hands? When you ; choose between a good name and riches you do not choose between I Christ and poverty; you choose be- | tAA’een Christ, Avith all the Avealth of a 3 universe, and gold as an oriole which I might spread her yellow wings and be ! gone in a night. When Cyrus offered to Artabazus a ! cup of gold and gave to Crysantas a kiss, Artabazus sa’d, “The cup thou 1 gavest to me Avas not so good gold as ; the kiss thou gavest to Crysantas.” Why? When Cyrus gave his kiss he gave to his favorite his heart. He gave to him the symbol that hereafter he i and all that he had were Crysantas*. May the dear Christ place upon every one of our lips a holy kiss! And then when he becomes a part of us and avc a part of him avo shall bear his name, and all that ho has shall be ours, and all that we haA’e shall be his. With that one kiss we shall enter into the royal family of which God is the Fa ther and Christ the Elder Brother. His name shall be upon ever}’ forehead. “A good name.” Oh, let us change the text! “The Christ name is rather to be chosen than great riches.” [Copyright, 190C, by Louts Klopsch.] THE 5 GAFFNEY HARDWARE CO, MS OPENED cfn with a large and complete line of Haiti ware, Cutlery, Farming Imple- •SLments, Harness, etc. Your patronage is solicited. : : : : • EVERYTHING NEW LIMESTONE STREET. i mi i - — i.. ■ ^ ^ ^ ^ M A A .A—Au-A— A A A Ml & & A ® A f* * M 0 From The Factory To The Bank. The GalFoey Savings ^ Bank should receive part of the contents of the wage earner’s envelope each pay day. No mat ter what the income may be, a certain amount can and should be set aside for emergencies or use in old age. :::::: THE GAFFNEY SAVINGS BANK Will accept amounts from $1.00 and upwards and pays FOUR PER CENT. INTEREST on all deposits. The Gaffney Savings Bank. Office in The National Bank of Gaffney. .♦ j was a bigger blockhead in the vice presidential chair.” Ah, yes, the bit terest of execrations were hurled at Lincoln when he Avas alive, as the most fulsome of eulogies are given to him now he is dead. Tlie Injustice of the Public. Though tlie AA’orld often has been un just and bitter to the great men, I have always felt that this persecution and this bitterness Avere not due, as a rule, to the lunate meanness of the human race, hat rather to Its Inability at cer tain tlmee to appreciate the heroes and heroines who wore sacrificing their lives for the good of their fellow men. But, my friend, you need not be afraid that the world will be unable to appre ciate your good works, If you are doing any good works. You are not a great warrior, a great statesman, a great re former. You are only an ordinary man, To be American means wo belong to the most honored nation on earth. Many years ago two travel stained Americans alighted from the railroad train In the French capital. No sooner had we registered at the hotel than we heard that a great statue was to be unveiled that afternoon, at which some of the greatest orators of France were to speak. At once avc headed toward the place of the ceremonies. The streets were blocked with the crowds The police were pdshlng the people tc the right and to the left We had no friends there and no one to assist us. At first, nonplused, we were about to go hack to the hotel. Then a happy thought struck me. I went up to one of the guards and spoke a single mag 1c word, “Americans.” At that word way was made for us. We were asked down the tines and upon the platform The Splritanllut Medium's Ryes. Dr. Maxwell of Bordeaux has ob served tiny spots lu the Iris of the eyes of all mediums Avith whom he has come in contact. It is not a question of different colors. The spots he has ob served in all his good mediums have generally been round black marks bear ing a vague resemblance to a cat's head, a bird’s head or a cat’s paws. Sometimes letters appear to be traced on the iris, and Dr. Maxwell knows a medium in whose left eye the letter M Is very clearly and distinctly marked. Dr. Maxwell now asks for further In formation. There seems good reason for asking, at any rate, whether abnor malities of the iris might not be re sponsible for the medium’s hypothetical power of seeing things which other people cannot.—Annals of Psychical Science. Embroidery Sale! I have now on sale the largest and best se lected stock of Embroideries to be found in town, at all prices, from 1c to 25c per yard. The ladies have a special invitation to call and inspect these goods whether they buy or not. Just received, lot of A. F. 0. Ginghams, Toile, du Nordsand Per cales at way down prices. I have some great bargains in Ladies’ Underskirts. Big lot Negligee Shirts from 25c to $1.00. Clothing, Hats and Shoes for everybody at all prices. I have a few pairs of Blank ets left; also a few Quilts, and now is the time to get them at bargain prices. : : See me for Seed Irish Potatoes and Onion Sets. :::::: J. I. W. J. MOORHEAD Yellow Front, Blacksburg, S. G. I have just received a complete line of Hardware, such as Plows, Steel Plow Shares, Hoes, Wheelbarrows, and everything usually carried in a Hardware Store. Sugar, Coffee, Flour, Meal, Meat, Molasses. I have the “W. S. Wilkerson” Home-made Molasses, 50 cents per gallon —try a gallon. I carry a general stock of Dry Goods ; also Hats, Cape, etc. Have just received a good line of Shoes and Hats. HZHZ In order to make room for Spring Clothing, etc., can make special prices that will make # them go. If you want the goods, I’ve got ’em at the right prices. With satisfactory arrange ments I can furnish farmers on time. Come to the Yellow Front. The volume of busiuess is what I want and will put up with short profits. W. J. MOORHEAD, Yellow Front Black&tmrg, O. . A'Qe