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W. mortal day sermon voices the longing I of all thoughtful men and women Fine lawn, shade I throughout tin* world for the early . . realization of the promise of universal • • • * * peace and welcomes the agencies that If vmi want anything in real are now at work for that purpose. The It }on want anjunng t ,, xt ls Isa , ah n, 4i “Neither shall they estate come to me. : • : : learn war any more.” Every great catastrophe Is an inspl- R. L. PARISH, ration for overcoming or at least for Office National Bank BniMin*. No , 80 "“ er , m ^ umce Gaffney, S. C. awful conflagration of the Iroquois ~ ’ — theater take place In December, 1904, than the whole city of Chicago arose FOR ALL COUNTY NEWS, IM- in protest. Excoriating denunciations PORTANT HAPPENINGS IN THE ! appeared in all the dally newspapers. PORTANT IM -r„p*T Editors as well as people declared -‘No STATE AND EVENTS OF INTEREST ^ ^ Hke that had a right to cx j s t" IN FOREIGN LANDS, TAKE AND At once there was a scurrying about of the city officials. The Are regulations : were overhauled. The means for fight ing fire were Increased. The fire in spectors were clearly and emphatically told that hereafter there was to be no evading of the fire laws and of the building restrictions. The will of the people plainly said, “The horror of the past through criminal negligence of the city officials shall not become the hor ror of the future.” ‘ What is true in reference to fire ca tastrophes is also true about railroad accidents. The tragedy of the Tay bridge in old Scotland strengthened the abutments of many bridges in many lands. The terrific annual slaughter of human life upon the railroads of our country was the cause of creating the block system, the Westlnghouse brake and the automatic coupling whereby car can be joined to car without en dangering the body of tyrnkemni^ or other railroad employee. So the awful tragedy of the civil war, with its mil lion dead, ought to be an Inspiration to teach us not only how we should honor the soldiers who fought and bled and died, but also how we should honor those who a>*e living, to prevent such a horrible butchery of human life In the future. As man has to be taught the art of war, so he must learn the art of peace. Shall he not honor his preceptors, who are teaching him how to cover the val leys with houses and fuctories and schools and churches instead of with campfires and fortresses and burning towns? Shall we not honor the men Avho are teaching us how to change ? our plains of Esdruclon into “cities of refuge" which were once battlefields hi many war ? Shall we uot honor to day such teachers as Professor R. G. Holden of Iowa Agricultural college, who lu 1901 gave to the farmers of the west a certain kind of corn seed which would produce a better kind of corn In that region t^an the farmers had been able to grow ami thereby la one year put Into the western fanners’ pockets $50,000,000 more than had ever been there before? Shall we uot honor such a one as well—ns we honor the soldier who teaches the Iowa boy how to march and how to shoot and how to slay his brother? RoonevelfM I’.-n Vermin Hin Sword. Shall we not honor Theodore Roose velt’s pen as well ns Theodore Roose velt's sword? The pen which sum mons the representatives of all the civ Uized nations to the peace conference at The Hague Is just as truly brave and patriotic as was the sword which our president drew at San Juan hill and the sword which today Is rea«.y to be drawn if foreign nations dare tram ple upon the rights of American citi zens. Yes, the pen of peace Is to be honored quite as much as the sword of war. Therefore, on this Memorial Sunday, when friends and loved ones are strewing the graves of our dead soldiers with flowers, I would place garlands upon the brows of the living heroes, upon the brow’s of the men and the women who are living and work ing to prevent future civil wars and fu ture International strife. This subject which we are alsnit to discuss Is one which Is uppermost to day In the minds and hearts of many. “It has occurred to me recently," wrote a dear friend from the east, “that a good subject for a sermon at some ear ly day would be ‘Peace’ and the move ments being made for the preservation of the world’s peace. Now that the statue of Frederick the Great has been set up In Washington It is seriously proposed to supplement It with the statues of Caesar, Napoleon and Han nibal. This may be a war college Idea. I do not know’ who made the sugges tion, but It Is not in line with the true spirit of the age, which Is one of peace aud arbitration. Instead of glorifying these great destroyers of nations wo* might do well to emulate the South American republics of Chile and Ar gentina. which have entered into mu tual arbitration compacts, melted their cannon and set up a huge statue of Christ on a peak of the Andes as the bringer of pence to the world.” That letter has in It the true ring of the gos pel and of tin* best Christian states manshlp. May Ood help us, one and all, to honor the dead soldier today In the best of all ways by teaching man kind to honor the gospel and the tem poral agencies that are at work to pre vent future wars! True StuteamanaMp. The dead soldier of the civil war In the first place should teach us that the Btntesinnu who ought to be most re spected In American politics la not nec essarily the man who Is elected to of fice, but the man who would srfoner be defeated for advocating a just princi ple than elected for advocating a wrong oue. He should teach us that a Jeroboam lu exile may be more of ft true friend to his country than a Re- hoboam. the heir apparent to a throne. A publicly denounced and disgraced Queen Yashtl is infinitely to be pre ferred to a Jezebel holding lu her right hand the signet ring of a reigning king. He should teach us that a Toussnlnt L’Ouverture fighting for the liberation of his beloved Haiti and dying In tlie^ dark dungeon of a French prison or a' William Wallace foully executed in London for lighting for the freedom of Scotland or an Oliver Cromwell endan gering his life by denouncing the tyr- scboolhouse desk their eyes have be come Intelligent eyes, unless their ears have become deaf to the calls of the demagogue and their minds have been developed to do their own thinking. A safe nation is not built upon the autocracy of a throne. It Is not an chored upon the rock of a liberal con stitution. It Is dependent upon the in telligence and the wisdom of the peo ple, the common people, who associate themselves together with a govern ment, be it a monarchy, an oligarchy or a republic. Form Not Responsible. Let me illustrate this idea from the history of some of our southern repub lics. I used to think that tin* form of annies of King Charles Is to be hon- ; the United States government was the ored Infinitely above the apostates who cause of most of our national prosper- for wealth or fame or position sold ! Ry. That Is not true. As I turn to their honor and their principles and be- those republics of South America I find trayed their country’s rights. And yet. that most of them were patterned aft- strange to say, often does a country e r our own constitution. What is the estimate a statesman’s successes not ; result? A noted English writer d<*- by the fealty with which he guards her ; dares that, though there have been rights, but by bis ability to force him- within late years 350 different in seif Into office, no matter what means stances of constitutional government he may use to attain It 1 started, most of them have been dead Is not this fact absolutely true in ! failures. In the Bolivian republic alone reference to Napoleon Bonaparte? lie out of fourteen consecutive presidents was uot only honored when he was alive, but he was and is honored by the French people and by the world when he Is dead. Never was there a funeral procession like that which brought his dust back from St. Helena to sleep its last sleep upon the banks of the river Seine. The son of the king whom Napoleon had dethroned went forth In ship to bring this treasured burden from British soil. “England took the eagle and Austria the eaglet,” were the words Victor Hugo wrote to poetically describe the English Imprls- thirteeu have either been assassinated or have died In exile. The history of most of the South American Imitations of the United States constitution has been merely a long series of wars be tween the military and civil authori ties, governmental convulsion after convulsion, revolution after revolution aud upheaval after upheaval. What is the cause of all this? It is uot due to the form of the South American repub lics, but to the Ignorance of the South American people. The reason the American ballot box for the last hun- onment of Napoleon I. and the Aus- dred years has stood as solid as Plym- trian appropriation of the little king of outh rock is due largely to the fact that Rome. Yet iu what way did Napoleon it is handed to the American boys over benefit France? Did he live for her the schoolhouse desk. We have a peace or her strength or her honor? 1 strong republic today because we have No. He was simply great as a mur- j strong, Intelligent, individual voters. derer, great as a robber, great as a merciless tyrant. He made wars; he levied taxes; he led his i>eople to the slaughter merely for his own aggran dizement. lie crushed the members of bis own home under his Iron heel for his own convenience when It suited him. He banquet'd year after year up- ITas any government offered greater educational facilities than ours? No sooner did the Puritan settle lu old New England than he Immediately be gan to erect bis institutions of learning. The pilgrim fathers landed In Plymouth In lt520, yet only sixteen years later, or in 103i‘>, wo find that Harvard college on the sufferings and agonies of France was founded In Cambridge on the out- and cared not how many hearts ached skirts of Boston. We find the Dutch and bled as long as Napoleon’s stand- and tin* English settlers drifting down ards were to the fore and Napoleon’s .into Connecticut, and what happened? throne was lifted higher, even though There Yale college is started in 17ol it was remorselessly raised upon a pile I at Saybrook. We go south, and what of corpses. ! do we find? Pennsylvania and all the 'Which Wax Greateati middle states honeycombed with eol- Shall Napoleon Bonaparte be honor- leges and academies. Vego west, and eti above Stephen Langtou, who wrest- there institutions of learning are seat ed from King John of England the tered everywhere. The schoolroom desk Advertising is called by some an art. If it be an art it is the art of telling a story simply and convincingly. Nobody knows more about the strong qualities of an establishment than the proprietor who oversees it. Other things being equal, nobody should be ab’e to write more convinc ingly of the articles he of fers for sale. In a store where the employer sells goods side by side with his clerks It is rare that the employer will not be the best salesman. The reason is simple. He knows the goods from A to Z. He probably has pur chased them. He knows his aims. His arguments earn weight because they are convincing. The same arguments pre sented in the same way, with the same enthusiastic spirit, the same knowledge of detail, would attract new customers if presented through the advertising col umns of this paper. If you have not triod it, why not begin? If you bave tried it and are not aatia- fied, let us ki ow about it 1 is seen at almost every crossroad, and the college Is intrenched iu nearly every town. Ah, yes, the modern Na poleon would have hard work here. | to start an international conflict just for fun or to gratify his ambitions. He would have hard work to upset us financially, socially or politically. Why? Because the people of this ag^ in our beloved lanil have too much in telligence to follow such a leader as the “Little (lorsicau.” Liberty and Education. What Is the practical application of this thought? ('hlef among the endur ing guarantees of future peace is the Magna Charta and made the English people a nation of kings? Shall he tie honored above Martin Luther, who, single handed and alone, defied the temporal authority of the church of Rome and drove in the opening wedge which will ultimately everywhere separate church from state? Shall he be honored above that wonderful a.*- semblage of men who, under the lead ership of Thomas Jefferson, penned the Declaration of Independence, and of James Madison who jienned the con stitution of the United States, whenjby man in a republican form of govern ment is compelled to respect the rights of man? Shall his name be honored presence of our schools and schoob above that of Abraham Lincoln, who teachers iu foreign’ lands. Too much a little farmers’ college in the west. But this one fact 1 know—had there not bee:: a little farmers’ college* near to my father's farm I would uever have received an education at all.” When we praise the schoolteacher as a messenger of international peace we must also praise the noble men who give of their wealth to support the schools iu out of tin* way places. We must also praise the Christian dis ciples who give of their little to sup port teachers in foreign lands as well ns to help support the small sectarian schools and colleges In our own. The I’lnoe of fhe Church. But what good does mere knowledge do unless It is balanced by moral cbar- # ucter? What good does it do to plant Dr. Duff’s missionary schools in India or Roberts’ college iu Constantinople or our own schools lu America unless moral aud spiritual development keeps pace with mental growth? None, abso lutely none. So today, as the greatest messenger of international peace, I plant the church of the Lord Jesus ( hrist between the legislative hall of the just statesman and the schoolhouse of the just teacher, for I find that the church of Christ is the main leaven which leavens the purity of govern mental law as well as the chief herald which is scattering true knowledge to the farthermost parts of the earth. Why does the church of the Lord Jesus Christ do all this? Because the very essence of Its belief bids It to carry this gospel work everywhere. As It looks forth into the great wide world it sees deep into the hearts of men. There it finds that, though men may be divided into different classes, yet, after all, they all belong to one great class. That class says: "We are all weary. We are all troubled. We are all sick at heart at best. There fore it is our duty as far as in us lies to try to boar each other's burdens through the help of Jesus Christ.” Thus everywhere the gospel mission aries are going. Everywhere they are planting their schools. Everywhere they are trying to make tin* stronger nations help the weaker and to make each nation care for the weak among its own subjects. Never since the coming of Jesus Christ to earth was there a better time for the consummation of tin* world’s peace than tl*.* present. Cannot the laws of international arbitration, through the power of the Holy Spir it. accomplish this most beneficent achiovement? In order to lead all na tions to join this international com pact and to disarm our” armies and to i dismantle our fortresses we need not wait until all muionwre converted to i Jesus Christ. We nirnq have the sen- I tinient of the civilized world longing for peace. Are not the better elements of Europe and Asia and Africa and .Unerica •longing for the stopping of Promptness Guaranteed. Picture Framing, Sign Writing, Paper Hanging, Howie and Carriage Painting L. R. Gaines 8k Bro. ’Phone No. 47. J. F. GARRETT, Dentist. Office Over. The Battery. ’Phone 82 J. C. OTTS Attorney-at-Law, Notary In OfTIc*. Office removed to New Bank Building. WILLIAM 8. HALL, JR., Attorney at Law, National Bank Building, Gaffney, S. C. Prompt attention given to all business. DR. W. K. GUNTER, IJ 15 T I » T . J Office iu Star Theatre Building. Phone No. 20., Crown and bridge work a specialty. was born in a hut, lived for the most part of his life upon a western prairie and yet by the proclamation of eman cipation taught the world that all men upon this North American continent are free aud equal? CauNea of CItII War. Civil war inevitably, to a greater or less extent, is the result of oue man or one class of men tyrannizing over the rights of others. What was the cause of the overthrow 1 of the Mar grave of Anspnch? It was the merci less tyranny of the last great duke. Oue day this ruler was seated by an open window of his palace with the Infamous Lady Craven by his side. Off In the distance a chimney sweeper was working upon the roof of a tall money cannot he expended upon our public school system. Porto Rico and the Philippines will never be truly con quered fof America until American schools have educated those colonists and taught them to realize the mean ing of American liberty. That was a | very wise move of the United States government which a few years ago brought the Cuban schoolteachers un der the classic walls of old Harvard. Roberts’ college In Constantinople and the Presbyterian schools at Beirut are the two wedges which shall overthrow j the brutalities of the Turkish empire. China, through the influence of our missionary schools, shall yet become a gigantic nation, sworn to perpetual peace and to forever avert the horrors building. "Would it not be amusing i () f another Boxer uprising. And that The Builders Supply Co. V Successors to L. Baker, Will furnish your Building Material of tho best that the markets afford and at the lowest living prices. No. 1 heart pine Shingles and Laths, Guar anteed Pure White Lead and Zinc, and Pure Linseed Oil. Nothing better to paint your house with and costs less than mixed paints. When In need of anything In the building line, call and see us; we’ll treat you cour teously and make your estimates for nothing. I-/. Baker*, MANAGER. to see that man fall to the ground?" said this infamous woman. With Ihut the margrave called oue of his soldiers to bring a gun. lie lifted the musket and took deadly aim. He fired and the laxly rolled to the ground a bleed ing corpse. A short time after this the duke aud his infamous female com panion were out riding and the widow of the murdered man approached his carriage and begged for help. The duke gave to her 5 florins, or $2. When he gave It to her, however, he said: "Woman, I do not give to you this money as a compensation for the death of your husband, but as a royal charity, for I, as ruler, have a right to do as I will with my subjects. I can reward them or kill them, and there is no redress.” Do you wonder that such u tyrannical government as that was overthrown?* All wars, both civil and internntiou- ul, are caused by injustice. The states man who works to make right might, who labors to have no law press more heavily upon one class than upon an other class, who struggles to give “a square deal” to the poor man as well as to the rich that man Is a public benefactor. That man Is u preventer of future carnage. That man Is teach ing the world that each nation must respect the rights of other nations, that oue swinl class must respect the rights of other social classes and that all peo ples are Independent only as they re spect the Independence of others. May God bless today the Christian states men who are not serving one people, but all i>eoples, In their own and other lands! The Just ruler or states man Is a pre venter of future war. Yes, but In this eulogy of the "heroes of peace” *the schoolhouse inust he built alongside of the legislative halls. No people in any bind are safe against the crime of making unjust wars unless at the vast government of Russia, made up of many mixed peoples and heteroge neous'nationalities, speaking as many different tongues as did the workmen I at the tower of Babel, shall yet become ! one through the missions of peace. Oh. my friends, we cannot honor too much our public schoolteachers and the pro fessors of our colleges as among the 1 greatest of wonder workers who are teaching us that war shall be no more! And here let me state another fact. We not only honor the teachers and professors who have given to us our education, but we also honor men like D. K. Pearson, who with their money have made It possible for this same i kind of teachers to carry that educa tion to some who would never be able to get It but for their beneficence. I consider D. K. Pearson one of the most practical and far reaching plfilan- throjlists of this age. He does not take his money and pile It up In some great city university, while the young people can find an education in many other schools near at hand, hut he gives here and there a few thousand dollars to struggling colleges far out In the coun try, away from the great centers. He gives there a few thousand dollars and yonder a few thousand dollars, and everywhere his money gtH*s to strug gling colleges, where It Is bringing forth Its fruit, some thirty, some sixty and sonic a hundredfold. To shoiv what good his money Is doing. 1 would quote tin* words siwken by a great Judge lu the east. A frlei^l came to him one day and said, “Judge, don’t you think you would have made your success quicker If you had graduated from Yah* or Harvard or Princeton and had had the help o} the alumni as sociation of one of these Institutions?'’ “Weil,’* answered the distinguished Jurist, "I do not know whether 1 would have made a greater success had I boon educated In the east Instead of In such carnage as was lately witnessed at Port Arthur and Mukden? Are we not longing that the sword may be turned Into the plowshare and the spear into the pruning hook and that men may not war any more? So, my friends, as never before I want you to pray for the president of the United Htates. Pray that God may enable him to lead the rulers of tho na tions to enter into a compact to stop hellish war and by the laws of Interna tional arbitration to stop It forever. I w«nt you to pray, and pray as never before, for the teachers of our public schools and colleges and for the teach ers who are laboring in our colonies and missionary schools in foreign lands as missionaries of perpetual peace. O God of Paul, who sat at tho feet of Gamaliel, teach thy teachers to lead their scholars to thee! And I want you also to pray and to work while you pray for our church as a messenger of peace. As the heart pumps the blood to the furthermost parts of the body, so a consecrated church of the Lord Jesus Christ is the heart which sends forth the spirit which will give us Christian statesmen and Christian teachers and Christian messengers of perpetual peace everywhere. May God bless those who are teach ing men to love their fellow men and to help them aud to forgive them and to lead them to the cross of that Christ whose nativity song was "Peace on earth, good will to men!” [Copyright, 1905. by Louis Klopsch ] DR. B. L. ALLEN, Physician and Surgeon. Offices In the Star Theatre building. Dr. D. P. THOMSON, Dentist. Over Cherokee Drug Co. Phone 5S. In Mnrrlnire a DiNeaaef Sometimes it seems as though the an tidivorce enthusiasts were not as sci entific in their methods as they should be. The great, abounding cause of di vorce Is. of course, marriage, and mar riage, therefore, is the thing to Investi gate. First, then, Is marriage a germ disease? We have considered this question a long time, getting no fur ther with it, but the scientific investi gators will he able to tell us. And If it is a germ disease they cau catch the germ, and, the germ once caught, they can get cultures and compose antitox ins which will strip this common and serious complaint of most of Its ter rors. And. of course, once we get mar riage under control we shall Ik? In n position to regulate divorce with a pre cision absolutely scientific, If there Is any divorce left to regulate.—Harper’s Weekly. A Wlali For the Blntiop. Bishop Coleman of Delaware, the Episcopal dignitary who every sum mer makes a two or three weeks’ tour over the country, tramping Incognito, is a man of tremendous appetite and is^proud of it. But ft story Is ’elated of a Kent county housewife who got the best of him. Mhe was the learned prelate's hostess o« one of his tramp ing tours and, knowing very well who he was, set before him a dinner fit for a man of great labors. The bishop ap predated her cooking highly and told her so, but he was unprepared for her rejoinder: “Bless ye, bishop, eat your fill, for I loves to see ye eat; eat till ye bu’et I wlabt you would!” Building and Plastering Lime, Coal, and Plaster Hair, Plaster Paris, Shingles, Portland Cement, Dynamite, Blasting Powder, Fuse, and Dynamite Caps, call on LIMESTONE SPRINGSTIMEJORKS. CARROlL & CO., Lessees. Telephone 57. Winthrop Coll'^gg Scholarship and. Entrance Examination. The examination for the award of vacant scholarships in Winthrop Col lege and for the admission of new stu dents will be held at the County Court House on Friday, July 7th, at“9 A. M. Applicants must not be less than fif teen years of age. When scholarships are vacated after July 7, they will be awarded to those making the highest average at this examination provided they meet the conditions governing the award. Applicants for scholarships should write to President Johnson be fore the examination for scholarship applicatfon blanks. Scholarships are worth $100 and free tuition. The next session will open September 29, 1905. For further information and catalogue address Pres. D. B. Johnson, Rock Hill, S. C. 5-16-2mo-pd. 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. 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