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y 1 1 T* 1 - r yr-Tir * • WlLMAM H. HAU-.JK. JAMBH A. WlbLlS. HALL & WILLIS, ATTOKNKY8 AT LAW, STAK THKATItB BLDO. < i A J-r e - CNI h; V . —. C‘. Notary Public in offlee. Prompt attontlon elren to all buslnosa. DR. W. K. GUNTER, l) 1C T' I « T OflQct' in Star Theatre Building. Phonk No. 20. Crown and bridge work a specialty. DR. B. L. ALLEN, Physician and Burgeon. Offices In the Star Theatre building. j. c% o r Attorney-at-Law, Notary In Office. Office removed to New Bank Building. Dr. D. P. THOMSON, Dentist. Over Cherokee Drug Co. Phone 56. J. F. GARRETT, Dentist. Office Over j The Battery. ’Phone 82 At Fincken s Old Stand. I All kinds of Fruit in season, Fancy Groceries, Cakes and Bread. D. A. Young, Mgr. West End' I have purchased the stock of Staple and Fancy Groceries, Confection eries, Cigars, Tobacco, Dry Goods and Notions formerly belonging to J. A. Graves, in “West End.” I bought the goods at A. 13i*s WLocluotion ; From first prices, and will sell just asT^ I bought—Low Down. Call and in spect my stock and you will find I can save you money. B. F. Gibbs, Graves' Old Stand—West End. F_OR Building and Plastering Lime, Coal, and Plaster Hair, Plaster Paris, Shingles, Portland Cement, Dynamite, Blasting Powder, Fuse, and Dynamite Caps, call on LIMESTONE SPRINGS LI'lE WORTS CARROlL & CO., Leasees, 'telephone 67. Any Light You may look »t It, you can't find fault, with our Photographs Most any “cheap man' can make a soot am whitewash nejraiive butfor beautiful lltrht- Injr. entrancing grada tfons of light am shadow, and fine tonal qualities, our Photographs will be found In a elas. 1 entirely their own. \V» know just how to 1 <»vt and how to finish r picture to make It i Kem. We are dolr' r a nice amount of pic. 11 r« framing these d «yt- and have a large ordei of high back gilts ami ornamented oaks on the road which will arrive In a few days. June H. Carr, Phone 176. Ites. 171 By Rev. Frank DeWitt Talmatfe, D.D. Los Angeles, Cal., April 16.—From the story of au iniquitous bargain and the use to which the tainted money earned by It was put the preacher In this sermon draws lessons of the evils that come from avarice and cupidity. The text is Matthew xxvil, 8, “Where fore that field was called the field of blood.” A grewsome fascination hovers about the bricks, and the stones, and thc- boards, and the grounds where lived and wrought some of the world’s evi! workers. Island of Blennerhasset! Wonderful name, rich in historical as sociations! 1 see the boats every spring and summer and fall filled with sight seers almost dally pushing out upon the Ohio river to seek thi« little island near Marietta. Why? Is it a summer playground? Is it an Isle of Wight? L its center a mansion? Are its banks terraced? Are its trees filled with sweetest of songsters as they were once in the halycon days when its owner, Harman Blennerhasset, took his bride there and changed this island into au Edenlc garden, as Nebuchadnezzar, who had courted Princess Amytis among the hills of Ecbataua, to humor the whims of his queen, hud lifted high for the wonderment of the world the famous “hanging gardens of Babylon V'’ Oh, no. Blennerhasset island today is of little intrinsic value. A few scrub trees, a few rocks, perhaps a few hov els such as can be seen in scores of is lands In the middle of this Ohio river, are all the aesthetic beauties it has to offer to the landscape artist. But to the historian Blennerhasset has the same fascination as have the broken walls of Kenilworth castle. Blennerhasset is immortal on account of the infamous history of Aaron Burr. That is where the ex-viee president stopped on his way to establish a monarchy in the great southwest. It has an evil fame as the rendezvous of the traitorous con spirators of that day, just as is that house in a side street of Washington In which Mary E. Surratt welcomed the thugs of the later time who were plotting the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. The people in swarms used to go to an old fashioned New England house where was kept a bloody shirt, the relic of a dastardly deed of the Revolu tiouary war. As I remember the story, au American officer was surrounded by the enemy while eating dinner in this very house. When called upon to surrender he handed over his sword, hilt first, to one of his captors. In stead of the British soli^ier receiving i' and placing his captive under guan... he took the sword and plunged it through the heart of his helpless vic tim. The rent in the shirt showed where the sword had pierced Its way into the bleeding flesh. Of course such a cowardly act as tills was condemned by the British army as well as by Un- American. But the condemnation of the murderer has not anything to do with my thought. The one fact I want to impress upon you Is this: Scores an ! hundreds of people naturally seek ii fascinated awe the places where a great crime lias been committed. The star In the floor of the Pennsylvania depot, where Garfield was shot, for years had Its thousands of sightseers. The scene of the Chicago Ilaymarket riot, the place where Edward Stoke; shot James Fisk, the sausage vat where Leutgert disintegrated the body of his murdered wife, all h*ve had their morbid sightseers even as tin* room in which George Washing.on breathed his last lias its daily visitors “The Field of Blood.'* Crowds of sightseers In Jerusalem for years after the crucifixion went to the scene of my text out of n morbid curiosity, as Uie multitude seek the island of Blennerhasset. Indeed, had they not gone out of a morbid curios ity they never would have gone at all. “Aceldama—that Is to say, the field of blood”—is not, as some people might suppose, an Esdraelon plain where a mighty battle was fought. It was an old potter's field, filled with clay. It was too poor ground to be used for agricultural purposes. It had been turned into a paupers’ cemetery. Yet this paupers’ burial ground had for years hosts of sightseers. Why? Per haps the best way to answer you is to tell you what some of the sightseers are now saying. “Yes, this Is ground,” says some one, “that was bought by the priests with the thirty pieces of silver Judas received for betraying Christ." “Aceldama—that is, the field (f blood”—says another; “it is well named.” Could we have a better sub- j Ject to preach upon on the Sabbath preceding Good Friday than this pot tor's field, which became a paupers’ burying ground, bought with the money Judas received for betraying Christ? Aceldama, in the first place, teaches us that there is no honor among thieves. When a man becomes a Satanic hire ling ne is not iik< !y to be true to his j partners in infamy. A murderer Ir. order to save his owu neck, as a rule, will turn state’s evidence against liis •’oinpunious in crime. A pickpocket will lie just ns willing to empty the in so of an associate ns be is to snatch . .he watch of a bank president. It Is 1 ften vaunted that there Is honor thieves, but experience prove.: 'bet it is a vain boast. The thief has no honor. The evil spirit who seeks i ) load you into temptation is the evil sp.m who will desert you as soon us I y »’ have l>een caught In n fatal trap or are floundering In the quicksands of shame. .Vo Loyalty to Kin. A sly fox has no loyalty to her kin. ghe has but one desire—to save her own skin. This characteristic is es- stnlially true of the Satanic devotees. All that you have to do to prove this premise is to study how this Acelda ma was purchased. For weeks and months the priests were trying to tie ■troy Christ. They knew not how they might capture him, for they fear ed the people. At last one of their spies came and said: “Ah, ha, 1 have solved the problem! One of Christ's apostles can be bribed. We will tiud out where Christ is in hiding at night. Then we will take some soldiers and go and arrest him and summon the sanhedrin and try him and convict him and crucify him before his friends can come to the rescue. Here is my man at hand. What say you, Judas? Will you betray your Master for thirty pieces of qilver?” “I will,” answered the apostate. Then what happens? No sooner is Christ betrayed and judas is overcome with remorse than he comes back to these same priests and says: “1 cannot take this money. It is blood money. Here it is.” And he flings it at their feet. Then what happens? Why, the priests look down upon this blood money and say: “That money is too vile for us to touch. We cannot use a murderer’s money In the temple. We are too good and holy for that. Let us take the money and buy a paupers’ burial ground. That certainly will hurt no one. They got Judas to betray Christ. Then as soon as Judas had done this vile, under hand. sinful work they turned their backs upon him and said: “Judas, yon an- too low, too meau and too con temptible for us to have anything to do with you. W T e will not even take back the money we paid you with our owu hands, for it is blood money.” Ah, the evil geniuses who lead us in to temptation will never stand by us when they have miserably destroyed us. Ih ancient Rome the defenders for months were defying tin* northern bar barians. The strong wails and ti e Iron gates could not be broken down. At last these barbarians Avent to a Roman woman and said, “If you will open for us the gates at night and let us In, we will give to you our war shields, made of ornamental gold and silver.” 8he opened the gates by night, and Rome fell. But as soon as the northern bar barians became masters of Caesar’s throne they destroyed the woman who betrayed her country. They gave her their shields of ornamental silver and gold, but they hurled those shields at her with all the force of their mighty arms until her mangled and bleeding and lifeless body lay buried under her prizes of war. After Benedict Arnold betrayed his country he was hated even more in England than in America. One day he was seated In the gallery of the house of commons when a statesman arose to address the house. Before com mencing his speech he said: “I see in the gallery of this house a contemptible character who, by the betrayal of bis own land, has forfeited every right to the respect of mankind. Before I enter upon my speech I hope that Benedict Arnold, known as Arnold the traitor, might be requested to withdraw from tliis body of honorable men.” Yes, the very men who protit by a crime despise their instrument and desert him in his ignominy. They Will Tarn Asninat Yon. Man treading the path of sin, do not be a fool. Do not suppose that those sinful people who are praising you now will fawn upon you after your morals and money are gone. All that the saloonkeeper wants is your gold; as soon as you are in rags his free lunch counters will no longet* give a welcome to you and yours. All that gambler wants is your gold; as soon as your money is gone he will kick you out of his presence as willingly as he would put a bullet In the heart of a mad dog. Ah. yes, the far country held plenty of friends as long as the younger sou had horses and wine sup pers, but as soou as his money was gone his friends were gone, his wine was gone, his horses were gone, his servants were gone; there was a great famine in that land. Companions of sin will fawn at your feet while you live in a palace. They will crush you under their heels when they can de stroy yon. Aceldama, the Hold of blood, was bought by the eviL priests, who had turned against Judas as your companions of sin will yet turn against you. Aceldama teaches another lesson. The easiest way to make au apostate Is not by denouncing or ridiculing the divine mission of Jesus Christ, but by developing the tendencies to sin which have not been eradicated from bis na ture. Let me illustrate my thought practically. You have all wandered through the northern forests In the win ter time. Everywhere you have seen the tall trunks of the trees supporting the bare branches. Not a leaf Is in sight; not a flower is blooming. Where are the millions upon millions of leaves which as an arched roof covered the mountain pathways last summer? Al! gone. But if you will nib yonr fingers lightly over the bark of those branche you can see when* new buds and new sprouts will come forth just as soon as springtime places to her lips the silver trumpet of the warm winds. As I ap proach a man Who is culled a Christian man I figuratively find him without sin, but ns I touch his heart 1 find, still figuratively speaking, that nil over his heart are latent sinful buds easy to be developed. ITiless a man lives clo • to Christ and continues to live close to Christ these evil buds will sprout and grow even tie; the white apple blo.»- sotnn cover the tree branches almost in one May day. The reason Judas In- "rayed Christ was because he allowed his latent buds of sin to develop: th i’ Is all. “Judas not different from his {ellow apostles? How w t; that?” some on % — J* «" asks me. “Why, Christ called him a devil.” Aye, my friend, that is true. But Christ did not call Judas a devil in the sense that lie was in the beginning uiy different from any other of the apostles. Indeed. I know he was just about the same. The apostles at that time honored and respected Judas so much that they made him their treasur er. He was their almoner; he handled all their moneys. He war, pot impul sive like Peter. lie was a calm, cool calculator. Why, if Peter had boon elected treasurer in Judas’ place, the first ten beggars who came to him would have got all that he had, and no provision would have been left for the needs of the little company. The rea son Judas was elected treasurer was because at first he -was loyal to Ids Master and he was very careful In handling the funds. Tbr Sin of Jntln*. But when Judas began to look after ■Inner. God loves us and clings to ns In exactly the same way as a mother cling.; to iier children. I asked a dear friend of mine some time ago who was the favorite among her many chll- j dren. She answered, *T love the young est best until he Is grown, and the nb- { sent one best until lie returns, and the sick one best until he gets well.” Ye:, 1 I said to. myself, “And the prodig .1 1 best until he comes back to a mother's love.” So God clings to his wayward ones. The more we sin the more tie wanis us !>v bis side and the more be ! * I pleads with us and clings to us. Do we not find this fact true in refer ence 19 Judas' life? When Christ knew that Judas was to betray him, did he drive Judas from bis side? No; that I was not Christ’s way. He kept Judas with him clear up to end. He seems to be saying all the time, “Oh, Judas, why wilt thou betray the Son of man?" One of the last acts of Christ’s earthly the money the old latent sin of his life life was to honor Judas above all his grew wanner and budded and sprout- ! brethren when be gave to him the sop ed. Covetousness was Judas’ sin. Ev ery penny, every piece of silver and gold which came into bis possession, only maddened his passions. Methinks I can see him at night counting the at the supper. The giving of the sop was an act of love, not of hate. So Christ today is pleading with you and me. We may spit in his face, as did those who led him forth for crucifixion; D old while his companions slept. “Ah.” we IUi ‘. v place a crown of thorns upon he kept saying to himself, “if this gold hi* head; we may betray him with a was only mine.” This passion, this ; kiss, as did Judas, but we cannot make evil passion, kept growing and growing | Christ cease to love us. Oh, my friends, upon him. It kept growing upon him ; nof . V011 :,n d I yield to this love of just as the desire for gold 0# fame or Jesus Christ, which passeth all human social position may have been growing understanding? Me have wandered upon you. Once Judas would have I faL f«ir away, but Christ Is today still knocked a man down who would have loving us. \\ ill you accept his pardon- placed a menacing or murderous hand l n £ love? W ill you accept it now? upon his Christ. But now he kept say- 1 A Wmiiiwide invitation, ing: “Cold, gold; I must have gold. I | This is a worldwide invitation which must have gold, even if I do destroy Christ to get it.” Liston! Let me trace the downfall of Judas—first, the hon ored apostleship; second, the election to the treasurership of the apostolic band; third, the hugp’ng of the g >l i bags to satisfy the cravings of his de veloping avarice; fourth, the protest because the box of ointment of spike nurd, very precious, was poured upon Christ’s head; fifth, the selling of Christ's life for thirty pieces of silver. Judas was not a devil always. Judas wont down to the betrayal step by step. He went down to the betrayal of Christ as some of us are going, slowly, surely, awfully, demoniacally, step by step, step by stop. The field of blood teaches us, in tie- next place, that the most awful danger Jiat can be done against Christ is done ! I am giving you to come to the saving cross, indeed, so great, so far reach ing are the possibilities of human re demption through Christ, that while I was writing this sermon in the quie tude of my study the thought aro^c: “How do I know that Judas was eter nally dsetroyed? God changed his mind In reference to the NInevites when they repented of their sins. How do I know that Judas, even when he I was dangling on the end of that rope. . did not make such supplication as brought him within the influence of the divine Father’s forgiving love? 1 Perhaps in the death struggle Judas called upon Christ for rescue. If he | did, who shall say that Christ did not pardon him? He could pardon Judas’ j sins just as ho forgave Paul’s, who ! was the “chief of sinners.” If Judas by his apostates and not by hi? out and 1 did call for divine forgiveness, I know out bitter enemies. For weeks and months, as I said before,. the high priests were trying to take Christ and crucify him. “But when they sought to lay hands upon him they feared the multitudes, because they took him for he received it, just as the penitent thief, as Mary Magdalene, as the wo man of Samaria, received forgiveness when repentant, just as freely as you can he forgiven today. Oh, my friends, with such a divine love surrounding us. a prophet.” What is the meaning of • will yon not throw yourself upon the this? They dared not touch him. ; mercy and atonement of Christ, which Christ’s beneficiaries at that time have saved in the past, which save would have risen up and swept the 1 now and which will save through all high priests and the Pharisees from o.f 1 time? The < ross can lie changed into the earth. A Supposition. Supposing toward the close of the Crimean war the English general had given orders that Florence Nightingale was to be shot as a spy, what would have happened? Methinks about the commander's tent would have been seen 5,000 poor fellows pleading and pray ing and threatening. One soldier would say: “She nursed me through a fever and saved my life. She shall not die!” Another would say: “She held my hand when they cut off my leg. She must not die!” Another would have said: “She bandaged my eyes, blasted by the gunpowder explosion. It was on account of her care that I now can see.” So those whose limbs Christ had straightened and those whose eyes Christ had opened and those whose lep rous skim Christ had cleansed would have risen up and cried out: "He shall not die! He shall not die!” But when Judas led the Homan officers by night to the garden of Gethsemaue and show ed where Christ was in retreat then Jems was taken by stealth and tried while Jerusalem slept. Ho was tried by night. He was crucified on the early morning. Oh, my friends, shall it be that you and I as apostates have betrayed Christ into the hands of hi: enemies? Another thought: “Aceldama—that is, the field of blood”—teaches that re morse for a sin committed does not necessarily wipe off the record of that sin from the Lamb’s book of life. Ju lias was sorry for his sin. No sooner had lie given that betraying kiss than he would have been willing to cut off his right arm to have undone the dam age. He flung the money back into the priests’ faces. He did more than that. Lacerated and agonized on account o f his mental sufferings, he went forth and hanged himself. He practically said: O God, my brain is crazed! Let me die!” But to be sorry for a past sin is not enough. Bemorse is not salvation through Christ. Dr. Whitley well said in one of his sermons, “Judas had a sight and sense of sin, but no appre hension of the mercy of God in Christ, and so he pined away In his Iniquity.” O man, today you are sorry for your sins. You are sorry because they drag ged you down and down and down. But are you more than sorry? Are you ready to renounce them and to plead with God for pardon through the blond of Christ? This pardon Is offered to all who come in Christ’s name. Remorse for sin does not necessarily mean sal vation by faith. There are two facts in tlie life 01 the prodigal son I would have you well bear in mind. The one is, he was sorry; the second fact, h«- arose and went back to his father’s house. Oh, my brother, will you repent of your sins? Will you do more than that? Will you turn your back upon sin and look at the loving, forglvin r face of Jesus Christ? God’s Love Srx+r Wi»nr». But the last thought to me Is tin sweetest of all. Standing by “Acelda ma—that Is, the field of blood"- I IV.' that, no matter how much we have sinned. God never loses his love for tl < a crown by changing the last two let ters. Remorse can be changed into triumph if today, In Christ’s mercy, you will reach up and look and live. 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He was so successful in this work and rendered such important service to the Dominion of Canada in pushing the railroad across her vast expanse to the Pacific ocean that in 1896 Queen Victo ria knighted him. Pre-eminently on dowed with common sense and humor, he is not the man to take his knightly honors too seriously. Shortly after re ceiving his title he exclaimed to a group of friends; "This ’Sir William’ business is very fine, but I’d like to hear what the boys down in Chicago will have to say aboil!: it They used to call me Just plain Bill.”—Success Magazine. IrreprexNllile Bnera. Commandant Jan Louw, the Boer of ficer who refused to lay down his arms when his fellow countrymen surr?“. dered to the British and who fled to tlx Longberg mountains, on the borders of German West Africa, with his band of burgher fighters, lias been successful ly resisting the combined English and German forces in South Africa for more than two years. 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