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Wireless Telegraph Message Calm age Sermon By Rev. Frank DeWitt Talmatfe, D.D. Awaits you at the store of ♦ The Gaffney] Drug Company, free—all charges paid’by us. It’s a; sample of Rocky Mountain Tea. Good for j cure of all ^Stomach and Liver disorders. Call for a free sample at our store. It will be given you as cheerfully as if you were “paying for, it The Gaffney Drag Compy. R. C. GARLAND, Mgr. M - - : Kotik lid Dipot. v w DR. J. H. CRIMtfl, The Famous German lyelght •paolallaft, . la permananUr located Mi burg, S. C. Corracta (be man oou> plicated caaea of era traubha. Examination Free. All Kleaaea at the moat reaaonabla prloea. Oroae-ayea cured wttb gla—a without cuttlnc. Office houre/ f A. 1L to I P. M. Office, 90 W. Main, OppoaRa Spartan Inn, Spartanburg, S. C. ssfrtt acre. “ For Sale 385 acre farm, $20.00 per acre. 67 acre farm in Yorkville $27.50 per Lot 72x100, 3 miles from Gaffney. 83 acre farm, $14.00 per acre, 6 miles from Gaffney. acres $100.00 per acre, acre farm 4# miles from Henrietta and 25Cliffsides, 12 acres of it in timber, $16.- 1150 per acre. « HOUSES and LOTS. 8 room’house and 6 acres in Blacksburg, /i,300.00. Fine 6 room house,newly finished, $1,800. Lot 72x135, $900.00 down. 78 acre farm, $1,350; 2 years to pay for it. 4 acres 3 blocks from depot, $3,300.00. Lot 80x200, w'est end, $350.00 Lot 2)4 acres, 4 room house, $1,050.00. Lot 135 feet by 200, 3 blocks from depot, $72500. Lot 200x200, 4 blocks from depot, $700.00. Fine 6 room house, newly finished, near graded school. 3 fine houses and lots near depot. 125 acre farm 7 miles from town, $13.50 I presses per acre, Vz in timber. 185 acre farm near Pacolet Mills, $15.00 per acre—enough timber on it to pay j for it. 185 acre farm 7 miles from Gaffney, $15.- 00 per acre. 7^ 140 aoe farm near Cherokee Falls, 40 acres in fine bottoms, 60 acres virgin timber, $15.00. £ ^ 82 acre farm 4 miles from Gaffney. Price $14,00 per acre. 114 acres close toGaffney, $28.00 per acre. 122 acre farm good houses, barns, etc., part in corjiorate limits, $4,100.00. 125 acre farm near town, $1,350.00. 78 acre farm 3 miles out, $1,350.00. 129 acre farm 3 miles out, #16.00 per acre. 40 acre farm on Pacolet road, good house, etc., $1,250.00. 84 acre farm extremely cheap. 202 acre farm, good houses, good barns, etc. Price $1,800.00; easily worth $12.- 00 per acre. The Hill house and lot, 5 rooms $510.00; the cheapest place in town for money. Would rent for $6.00 per month. The Charlie Stacy house, only #800.00. 75 acres most all in timber, $1,000.00. One fine lot right in heart of town, $2,- 100.00. One farm (extremly large) $10,250.00. 50 acres, house, etc., edge of totvn. Price #4,000.00. 4 room house, barn, store room and 1 acre laud at Thickety depot, $425.00. Lot 80x200 in left of resident portion of town, Price $800.00. 36 acres, lies nicely, $360. Prices reasonable. R. L. Parish. Los Angeles, Cal., Nov. 5.—lu this termon the virtue of sotf sacrifice and generous recognition of the rights of others is clearly set forth and is shown to be one of the chief essentials of u noble character. The text is Matthew v, 41, •‘Whosoever shall compel thee to go with him one mile, go with him twain." What Sir Walter Scott was to the moors and glens of old Scotland, ro mantic with their legends and folklore, and what Charles Dickens was to the quaint vernacular of the Loudon streets, and what Feuimore Cooper was to the North American Indian, with his wigwam and his campfires, his hates and his loves, Frederic Bem- ington, the great American figure and animal painter, has been to the habits and customs, the comedies aud trage dies of the western cowboy, now al most a relic of the past. Future stu dents of our past history reading Theo dore Itoosevelt’s "Winning of the West” will gain a clearer idea of the scenes and the people there described if those four volumes are illustrated with Remington’s famous pictures—“The Last Stand," "The ('rooked Trail," “The Frontier Sketches” and “A Dash For the Timber.” But above all the pictures that Frederic Bemington has sketched I do not believe there are any more powerful than those In which he depicts the daring exploits of the mes sengers of the pouy expresses. Now the east and the west have been married by the wedding ring of the iron rail and the swift locomotive dashes across the continent, but in former times the gold fields of California would have been cut off from communication with the busy east if it had not been for the useful system of the pouy relays. Every thirty or forty miles there was .a station. This chain of stations stretched clear across the continent. Then between these stations every day a cowboy would ride. Alone uixm ids horse he rode forth with the mail and with his saddlebags often loaded down with gold and precious stones. He rode straight out Into the deserts and over the prairies; he rode forth in de fiance of Indian murderer and white skinned highwaymen and ferocious wild beast; he rode with bis life de pending not so much upon the sureness of his aim and the steadiness of his gnn as upon the swiftness of the four Hooted beast be bestrode. There in sons Frederic fl^paington’o "Fron tier Sketches" you can see the messen ger of the "pony express” riding with t ocore of red skinned savages on bis trnll. Ton can almost bear the pant- logs of his exhausted horse and the whining of the rifle balls as they fly past the cowboy’s ears. There be Is digging in the spurs in bis race with dsath, or, rather, in bis race for life. Now, in order to get a clear grasp of my text we should take some of Rem ington’s “Frontier Sketches” In refer ence to the pony express and give them an oriental coloring and pot them among the Palestine hills of 1,000— aye, of over 2,000—years ago. Albert Barnes tells us that the word "compel” of my text is of Persian ori gin. It comes from the royal court of Cyrus the Great, who died in 529 B. C. There was no postal system in that day. King Cyrus planned a system of pouy expresses all over bis empire. Thu.i by a system of relays of horses, when the king wished to send a royal command to one of the governors of his provinces, his message could be handed from courier to courier with the greatest expedition. As these cou riers had to go through wild regions, like those traveled by the messengers of the.pony express during the fifties and the sixties, they had a right to compel any man they met to go with them and protect them as the county sheriff today has a rigid to compel you or me to help him arrest an offender against the law. A Simple IlluMtrutiou. I his extensive system of pony ex- not only spread throughout Persia, but in ( hrist’s time spread through all the Roman empire and Caesar’s provinces. Thus Jesus, in or der to show how his disciples should he willing to sacrifice for any right au thority, used a very simple and com mon illustration. He says, "If any courier shall compel thee to go with him one mile, go with him twain.” That means when an authority asks you to do a certain amount of work you should be willing to do twice what he asks. Can we not today make this application of sublime gospel conces sion to the home and to our relations with employers, our churches and the great world at large as well as to Cae sar’s couriers V Christ’s command of cheerful sub mission applies to the home. As in the 1 nited States government the execu tive, legislative and judicial depart ments have their place and their sepa rate functions, so in the home there are co-ordinate powers, each with its duties aud its rights. The husband and wife, the parents and children all come under thla divine Injunction of mutual concession and in fulfillitig it will promote domestic happiness ff any one in the home has need of a service It should be cheerfully render, d —aye. In double the measure required. It Is unwillingness to go the twain mile In the home which causes most of the difficulties of the domestic circle. You know it by personal experience. You hear angry words coming from the children’s bedroom. “What is the matter, girls?” I hear you ask. "Why this trouble?” "Oh,” answers your daughter Mary, ‘ I cannot stand Jen nie's disorder any longer; She was playing with her dolls yesterday, and she left her doll trunk out in the mid dle of the floor. I have stumbled over it again and again. Now I have fallen and hurt my knee. Then, mother, just look at that bed. It is a perfect sight. It is her time to make it up today. 1 made it yesterday.” Then you say, “Daughter, why did you not put the trunk away and make up the bed your self?” With that Mary angrily tosses her head as she answers: "I simply will not do Jennie's work. I am ready to do my own work, but I am not will ing to do hers." Why are the girls quarreling? They are both standing upon their rights. They are not for bearing to each other. They are not willing to carry each other’s burdens. They are not willing to go the twain mile. They are willing to do what they have to do. but they are not willing to do what they do not have to do for eaeli other. Domentic Dltllrultieii. What is true about the difficulties be tween the children of a home is also true in reference to ifaost of the difficul ties between husbands and wives. In stead of some men aud women looking upon the marriage altar us an opportu nity for promoting the happiness of their marital partners, they look upon it us a stepping stone to a throne, where they can make their husbands or wives work for them. Their mar riage altar is not symbolized by the beautiful nuptial ceremony which the Cherokee Indians used to have. There the young bride and groom used to stand upon the opposite banks of a brook and clasp hands over the run ning waters to show that hereafter their interests and work were to flow together as the waters of a running stream. But instead of some husbands being willing to go the twain mile for the wife, or some wives being willing to go to the twain mile for the hus band, each says, "I will do for you what I am compelled to do, and I will not do anything else." A young man wooes, w ins aud mar ries a young girl. She has been brought up in a well to do father's home. She was an only daughter, aud to u great ex tent she lias been spoiled. Time passes on. Theyounghuslmud tries to keep up a home to the standard in which his wife has been accustomed to live, but the income is too small to meet the outgo. Day after day he keeps saying: "Nel lie, you must economize. You must lessen our expenses. Cannot you make your old hat do this winter? Cannot you send the children to the public school?” "No,” she answers, *T shall not. You married me, and it Is your place to take care of me. I never heard this nagging question of money, money, money, in my father’s home, and I ought not to bear it now.” The young man daggers on fh b* Htniggle. ftfc tkkee t<9 %rlak. Ktod Vords ars now exchanged for angry ones. The domestic difficulties culminate in the divorce court. Why? The wife was unwilling to go the twain mile for her husband’s love. On the other hand, the husband is just as much to blame as the wife. From sickness or overwork the wJfe may become a nervous wreck. In her weakneas te he always gentle? la be always kind? la he always thoughtful? Does be try to shield her as be ought? Do the two angels Bear and Forbear hover over his fireside? Are we all, for our dear ones' sake*, ready to travel the twain mite of sacri fice? Are we ready to do for our dear ones what I saw a noble friend of mine do for his helpless, tougued tied and men tally beclouded-wife, who a few months ago went to her heavenly rest. This gentleman at the time I knew him had passed his threescore years and ten. His wife had a fatal disease creeping over her that was rendering her more helpless every day. Instead of the old gentleman leaving her at home to be eared for by servants he waited on her as gallantly and devotedly as though she were a young girl. He cut fur her tin* food at table. When lie had guests she was always by his side to eat with them. When she spilt her cup of cof foe, as she sometimes did, he would not apologize to its, but sweetly say to her: "Never mind, Jennie; never mind. It is all right.” When we went out to hear one of the greatest singers in the world he took her along because even in her physical and mental weakness site always loved music. Then he would say to me: “Ah, if you only had known her when she was well! I can never be too good to her for what she has been to me.” Yes, in the home we should never forget what our dear ones have done for us. They have traveled the twain mile often enough for us. Shall we not travel the twain j mile for them? In IluHineaM Life. | Christ’s command applies also to mercantile and professional life. Ev ery man to a greater or less extent is or ought to be a servant. As a clerk he should he a servant to his employer; as a physician he should he u servant to his patients; as a lawyer he should be it servant to his clients; as a mer chant lie should Ite a servant to his customers; as a professor he should be a servant to iiis students; as a scien tist lie should lie a servant to his inves tigations. Now, the man in profession al or business life who works for mon ey alone and who is willing to do only what he is paid to do anil nothing more is very foolish. He is looking at suc cess through the wrong end of a tele scope. It is only when a man works for the love of work and not for mon ey that we can say a happy man is trudging along the highway of (ruesuc cess. One day n young artist called upon Audubon, the r~ naturalist, and showed some drawings to him. Audu bon lookcij at these drawings a mo ment. Then lie said: "I like those drawings very much, hut they are not true. You have painted the legs of this partridge nicely, except in on** respect. The scales are exact in shape and col or, but you have not arranged them correctly as to numbers. Now, upon this upper ridge of the partridge’s leg there are just so many sea/es. Y< 11 have painted too many. Examine the legs of a thousand partridges, aud you will find the scales always the same* in number.” Then Audubon said: "Young man, it is only when you become wed ded to your work—body, mind and soul —tbat you will make u success out of it. You must be willing to work day in and-day out, week in and week out. year in and year out, to investigate to the minutest detail; otherwise you can never master it. When you work for science you must work entirely above the idea of mercenary remuneration. You must work for love.” Fop Lore of Science. Did not John James Audubon prac tice ills own teachings? For years and years aud years, with gun in one hand and portfolio in the other hand, he wandered through the western forests seeking the haunts of the American birds, to reproduce their likenesses in his portfolios. After years of work lie went to Philadelphia with the results of his labor. He was compelled to leave the city for a few weeks, and when he returned he found that the rats had entirely destroyed the results of a decade of labor. The precious portfolios which contained the delinea tions of over a thousand rare birds were forever ruined. His portfolios were forever destroyed, as the manu script of “The French Revolution” of Thomas Oarlyle was burned by an ig norant servant, who threw it into the fire as worthless paper when she was sent into the study of the friend to whom he had lent it to clean up. So great was the shock in Audubon's case that at first he was flung upon a bed of sickness, where for weeks he hovered between life aud death. Then he arose and went back to the forest. He hunted up his old friends, the birds. He spent three more long, weary years repro ducing what the rats had made nests of. Aud he did all this for the love of science, for during Audubon’s lifetime his printed books hardly paid for the cost of the printing. What is true In reference to science and professional life is equally true hi business. The young man who makes a success in business is the one who makes his employer’s interests his own. It is not the young man who simply does what he is told to who is promot ed in the store. It is not the young man who works with his eyes upon the clock, ready to drop his tools at the flivt stroke of the bell, who becomes the foreman of the factory. It is the young man who is a perfect glutton for work who Anally aits In the glass office. It is the young man who is will ing th do what he is not asked to do. aM^what .gfeQr clerk* unwilling to do, who finally gets the peomotton. in other words, the successful man in the mercantile world is the successful man in the scientific or the professional world; the man who for others is ready to travel the twain mils. Oh, the neglected opportunities of business, to which some of us shut our syes! .These neglected 01 port unities are lying about, despised, everywhere around us. The story is told that one day a couple of humorists were wan dering through the zoological gardens of London. While there they saw the carcass of a huge lion being dragged from its cage. In a spirit of fun they bought It and sent the dead lion as a Joke to their friend, Sir Edwin Land seer. It arrived at the great artist’s house early one morning. The servant, in amazement, went and awoke his master to ask him what he should do with it Landseer at once dressed and went down to see It. He stood a mo ment aud looked at the huge body. Then he said, “Bring it Into my study.” They carried it in. Then I^udseer took up his brush aud commenced to paint. He painted that dead lion in the midst of a great expanse of sand. He called the picture “The Desert.” It became his most famous masterpiece. The model which ids friends tossed aside as a joke he took and made out of it a stepping stone to a throne. So in professional as well as in mercan tile life there are opportunities lying about us everywhere. If we grasp them in the love of work, if we sacri fice for them, even though at the time they may seem to amount to naught, our "dead lions” will become "living lions." When a man works for love, then a man. like Sir Edwin Landseer, will make everything he touches re dound to his own success. “If in th“ mercantile world thy employer compel thee to go with him one mile, go with him twain.” Tli* 1 Call of Ihc Cliurcti. But there is another authority that lias a right to subpoena your time and your sacrifice, Just as Caesar’s courier had a right to compel the Hebrew to protect him when he was carrying tin- royal message over the Judaean hills. This authority is the church. It lias a right to conic to you in the home, in the store—anywhere you may be—and say: "God wants your money. God wants your time. Cod wants your personal sacrifices. Come with me for at least one mile.’' Now Christ says: "In the name of the church you should not only ho willing to go one mile far Cod s church; \ >u should Ik* willing to go the twain mile." Yet how few peo- ple arc willing to give up their money and time and personal sacrifices for 1 the church of God as they ought! You Keen t > have time for almost every other line of work on eartli hut that of the church. I go to you todnv aud say: "Mrs. .So-and-so, 1 do wHi yon would come and work in our Fnii day school I have one of tin* finest classes of girls you ever saw. There are almost twenty girls in it. They are Just at the critical age of life. If we cau only hold them for five or six years longer they will make grand workers for Coil. But they must have the riglit kind of a teacher. Will you come?” And inevitably I hear an answer some thing like this: “Oh, I can’t come. That means I will have to get up early Sun day morning and always in; there. You had better ask some one else who can be more faithful and better fitted for that work than I.” And so I am put off from getting the right kind of teach ers for my Sunday school, just as near ly all pastors and Sunday school super intendents are put off. The average church members arc willing to go the first mile for Clod in the church. They are ready to attend Sunday morning service—that is, if they can come in late and leave as soon as the benedic tion is pronounced—but they are not willing to go the twain mile. They are not willing to give whole hearted serv ice, consecrated service, entire service, to the church of the laird Jesus Christ. Now, my brother, what authority should have a prior claim upon your services to the authority of the church of the Lord Jesus Christ? The chief purpose for which the church was startisl was the saving of souls. Could an} - work he more im portant? Some years ago I saw an officer of the law pursuing a thief. A carriage drove by. Without one mo ment’s hesitation the officer command ed the driver to halt. lie leaped into the carriage, took the reins and hit the horse with the whip. He made that horse run at full speed after the tlee- iug thief. You say at once: “That is right. The officer had * perfect right to do that.” Well, my friends, then 1 would ask you this question. If that of ficer had a right to take a man and his carriage and pursue a fleeing thief, has not my Lord and my God a right to summon you to come and work in his church, where Christian people are working aud praying in order to de velop boys and girls aud men and wo men so that they will not become thieves and social outcasts? Is the fireman’s work, who rushes to a burn ing building, any more important than that of a Sir Humphry Davy, who manufactures the little mining lamp, that there may not be a fatal explosion in the mine? The Country's Call. But 1 cannot close without speaking one or two words with direct reference to Caesar’s couriers. Christ is here enunciating the doctrine he preached to the Pharisees when he said, “Bender unto Caesar the (hings which are Cae sar’s as well as to God the things which are God’s.” Shall we not, in the best and in the truest sense, be sub limely submissive to our city and state and national government? And yet, when our country Is calling us and needs our aid, how many of us turn deaf ears to those calls! For the peace and happiness of our dear native land are we ready to fight its internal enemies as well as Its foreign foes? Are we ready to fight the saloon and ail Its sinful dives and all evil vam- pii»i that are trying tiMMck out the lifeblood of our social organism? Are we willing to be true to the nation and come to her help, aa the Hebrews should have been willing to wpHny to the aid of Caesar’s couriers and go wtth them not one mile, but twain? Would that In thaae times of peace we might be aa true to the beat Inter ests of our nation aa were our ances tor* In times of war! Then It was with them no question of money. Oh, hew heevily the harden of taxation rested upon them! Every loaf of bread In those war times was taxed; every cup of coffee and tea was taxed. Then the women sewed and the men poured forth their money In rivers of gold. Not oniy did they give their money, but they gave their blood and their lives, to save the land. Mothers brought their sons to the recruiting officers and said: "I am a woman. I cannot fight, but here are my boys, my brave boys. Take them and let them die as sacri fices that their country may be free.” Fathers left their wives and their chil dren; brothers left their parents, their sisters, their sweethearts. Those brave men left these brave women and wr-q forth to die by the tens of thousands 1.1 order that their country might lie free. Oh. ye men. in these times of peace cannot you hear your country calling }ou to come to her aid and imploring } 011 to make the same kind of sacrifices us your ancestors made in time of war? The heroes of peace must la* just as brave and just as true as were the sol dier boys who waded through blood soaked battlefields and whose bodies are now awaiting the cull of the resur rection in the trenches of Bunker Hill, of York town and of the Wilderness. I Inis my text has not. as some peo ple might suppose, a literal but a figur ative Interpretation. It does not sim ply mean that you should be willing to travel with a man 2,0<>0 paces, which was double the distance of the Roman mile, but it means that in the home, tin* store, the church and as an Ameri can citizen you should render unto God the very best service you can. You should sacrifice for his name, uo mat ter how great the sacrifices may seem to he. 11 is said that after one of the fa- mo - Spartan buttles a Lacedaemonian mother hailed the courier who brought the news from the front. This mother had five sons fighting in the army. "How goes the battle?” called she. “Alas," said the courier, “all thy boys are slain!’ The brave mother answer ed: "I did not a«fc thee how fared my boys, but how fares my country. If the battle is won, all is well, no mat ter what lias happened to my sons.” So may it be with us. May we not work to find out how it shall be with us, but how it shall lie with others. May we work and continue to work not for our individual selves, but for the best interest of the home, the store, tae church, the country. Then we shall be working for God and humanity. Oh, men and women, will you travel for others today the twain mile? [Copyright, is**, by Louis Klopsch ] COMING! HUMPTY OUMPTY SPECTACULAR PANTOMIME DIRECT FROM NEW YORK ONE NIGHT ONLY Not- ember 1 Wednesday GEO. K. ADAMS’ BIG COMPANY ACTORS, ACTRESSES, SINGERS, DANCERS. HANDSOME [COSTUMES, GORGEOUS SCENERY. BUSTER BROWN. Also, New York’s Greatest Sensation The Creation of*a Woman out of nothing The most startling and unexplainable act ever given on the American stage. Prices, 25c, 50c, 75c. $1.00 Tickets now?on sale The very best and largest show here this season. Geo. H. Adams, the original Clown. One-half the audience ladies. 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