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Dr. Pierce thus invites the fullest investiga tion of his formula knowing that it will be found to contain only the best agents known to the most advanced medical science of all the different schools of prac- I tice for the cure of woman’s peculiar i weaknesses and ailments. If you want to know more about the composition and professional endorse ment of the " Favorite Prescription.” send postal card request to Dr. U. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y., for his free booklet treat ing of same. You can’t afford to accept as a substi tute for this remedy ofknon'n rnwimsitina a secret nostrum of unknown com posi tion. Don’t do it. Sltmge Sermon By Rev. Frank De Witt Talmage, D. D. mander of the Drltiab and colonial forces, led his troops against Fort Du- quesne In 17.T>, the young colonel, George Washington, warned him j against the dangers into which he was running. He said, “My general, you I are dealing with one of the bravest | and most treacherous foes.” Pooh, pooh!” answered General Praddoek. I “We are merely fighting a lot of red I skinned savages. You may he afraid | * ” ; of them, but I am not. You have never Los Angeles, Cal., Sept. 30.—That no , been trained In one of the great Brit- | man ever lived who possessed all the > ish military schools. I have some of talents and that pride of intellect and the best soldiers of his majesty’s army, j unwillingness to learn from others fre- j They can defeat any body of soldiers , quently lead men to ruin is the lesson of this sermon, the text chosen being Proverbs xi, 14, “In the multitude of counselors there is safety.” In my time I have been much asso ciated with many classes of men. As over gathered together in these west ern wilds.” So he went ahead in his blind folly. On he marched with his banners flying and his drums beating. And what was the result? At Great Meadows, the present site of the city of Pittsburg, suddenly the woods be- a result of this association I am struck came a perfect hailstorm of bullets. with two fur reaching facts. The first is how much the average man knows. When I say this I refer to the so called common people as well as to the wealthier or the more Influential social class. Some of the most valuable nug- “Fall in. fall In!” cried Braddock. “Aim! Fire! Charge!” were his orders. Rut where were his troops to aim? At what body of men were they to charge? The enemy’s fire seemed to come from everywhere, and yet not an enemy Sour Stomach gets of gold have been dug out of the was in sight. Edward Braddock, with common dirt. Some of the rarest ideas j scores and hundreds of his bravest of- and the most brilliant intellects are | fleers and men, fell mortally wounded found in the skulls of men who wear | or were instantly killed. They were coarse clothes and live in very humble j ruthlessly slain because their corn- houses. mander, with egotistic folly, deliberate- Kev. Dr. William M. Lawrence, who | ly shut his eyes to the strength of his for many years was the most promi- | foes. | nent Baptist preacher of Chicago, once ciiief chunc of the War. j told me that he always made it a prac- “What was the chief cause of the ! tice when it was possible to ride upon rivil war?” I asked an aged southern {the platforms of the street cars and gentleman some time ago. “Without talk with the conductors and the mo- any doubt,” said he, “it was due to the I tormeu and the mechanics and laborers : ignorance of the two sections in re- v. ho were returning from their daily J spen t to the strength of each other, i toil. “And,” said he, “some of the very j This fact was never better demonstrat- ed than in the life of Senator William Yancey. lie used to be a neighbor of mine, and I knew him well. He was born and brought up in the south. He knew practically no other region than the south. He was one of the most best ideas which I have preached from my pulpit have been suggested by them.” Because an old well is some- ! times covered by moss and creeping | ivy and entangled thickets, that does j not prove that there are no pure, spar- | kling waters among its rocks. Because j eloquent men I have known. He was No appetite, loss ot strength, twvwm- a gem is found glittering amid a lot j n bitter partisan and went up and doss, headache, constipation, bad breath, of eonble-‘ mes, that does not prove down the southern states delivering his general debility, sour risings, and catarrh that it is a < ibblestone. Many a great inflammatory speeches until the whole of the stomach are all due to Indigestion, philosopher dresses, like Tolstoi, in { S o„th was in a turmoil. But after he Kodol cures indigestion. This new diacov- peasant's garb. Many a stonemason had ignited the fires of rebellion and ery represents the natural juices of dlg<*. ( ., in , in(1 lik(> r ,, sh Minor, the “Foot- lion as they exist in a healthy stomach, . . ’ . ,, , .,.1 combined with the greatest known tonic 1 . . ... and reconstructive properties. Kodol Dyo- sandstone of < rm iarty. Many a pobt- popsia Cure does not only cureindlgastlon leal sage is scanning the horizon of and dyspepsia, but this famous remedy statecraft, like Marcus 1’orciun Cato, cures all stomach troubles by cleanalng, | with an eagle eye, while he is guiding purifying, sweetening and strengthening p| ow across the field of a country the mucous membranes lining the stomach. ( f. irin Mr. s 3 Ban Of Ravenswood w Va. ' Th( , traveler who cannot glean In- I was troubled with sour stomach for twenty years. 1 111 Kodol cured me and we are now uslnf It In milk formation from all classes Oi men, UO ,OT b *Ktvdol Digests What You Eat. j ^ .'“V Bottlas only. $1.00 Size holding 2H times ,he tital UuUl "“ 1 S-d.len sta ks after the reapers who were binding size, which sells for 50 cents. Prepared by E. 0. DeWITT & CO.. OHIOAQO. For sale by Cherokee Drug Co,, Gaffney; L. D. Allison, Cowcens. NOTICE To Farmers We are prepared to store and insure your Cotton and to advance money on same. Call on us. A*. N. Wood &D.W. Hicks Sept. 25-im. the fanned those living embers into a con flagration, about a year before the war broke out, he took a journey north. He traveled through New York and the middle states and on toward the west. He saw then with his own eyes the 1111- limited resources of the northern peo ple', and he knew that the effort to gain southern independence was doomed to failure. He eame hac k home from that trip disillusioned and chagrined and never opened his mouth as a public speaker again. Like an incendiary who sheaves in the harvest fields of Boaz, j j liU j ignited the fuse of a powder mag- 1s a tourist who has ears to hear and .,zine and could not put it out, all that will not hear, who has eyes to see and i j H , cou id do was to sit and watch the will not see and who has a dumb tongue too clumsy to probe for the treasures of mankind by asking the leading questions which will bring forth the desired answers. Said old Robert South: “It takes both flint and steel to make a spark. You must pound the one upon the other or else the fire will never come. You can pound a piece of steel for days and weeks upon a wooden log, and the wood will never awful carnage approach as the civil war came nearer and nearer, conscious that the appalling sacrifices of human life and property that the south was making would be useless.” This court ly southern gentleman said to me with a quaint smile, “No matter how strong a man may be*, it is always well for him to find out beforehand If his ene my is not as strong or even a little stronger before he* takes off his coat Chew RED EYE TOBACCO The Best Chew on Earth. Aug. io-2tn-pd. Host Anything And a little of everything is now being shown in my line: All the new conceptions and fads . : : ..In The Jewelry Line.. From the cheapest ^orth having to the very finest specimens and grades. Re pairing done by an Ex -<ert. Thos. H. West rope, Next to Shuford & LeMaster. Are You Needing a Well? flash back a flame. You must rub up an( j i^ins to fight.” There Is Infinite Intelligence against Intelligence In or- I w j s ,i om i n that remark. It is always der to make the Intellectual sparks fly. | we |] f or eV ery man to realize the difli- If the traveler has a brain of flint ho cu i t i ( . s which are ahead of him before will find that the average man has a , 10 euters tll e struggle of life, brain of steel. Then the intellectual Don’t Be E*otl*tic. ■parks will follow thick as the stars on the Milky way of the heavens. But If the traveler has a wooden brain then he will think that most people he meets have brains of wood also." A Common Weaknena. The second fact which Impresses me about the human race Is that, though the average man baa much Intelli gence, yet most people make failures out of life. To use an expression which I once heard used by Dr. Mac- Arthur of New York, "They never saem to be able to put their mental goods upon the market.” They seem to have all the capabilities of success; they are like an exquisitely and perfectly con structed rifle, but they always seem to miss Are. You recognize this fact as I do. "What is the matter with Lawyer So-and-so?” I ask. “He was an old college chum of yours. Why has he not made a greater success? Has he not brains and application?" "Oh, yes,” yon answer. “He was one of the most prominent men of my class. He was an honor man and graduated a member of the Phi Beta Kappa so ciety. He Is honest and a hard work er. But somehow be never seems to be able to get ahead.” That statement is true of most law yers, most doctors, moat ministers, most merchants, most men of all de partments of life. Mentally equipped they seem to be. Honest they are also. But failures they have actually turned out Now, If I were to put my finger upon the chief weakness of these lives, I would state that egotism has been the main cause of their failure. In the critical moments of their career they will not take advice. They will not heed the warnings which their friends are so anxious to give. And, like a fire horse with the blind stag gers, they needier,sly crash Into this obstacle and that danger until at last they are flung and in one sense ruined as far as their earthly careers are con cerned. King Solomon well expreseee my thought in the words of my text when he says, “Where no counsel la the people fall, but in the multitude of counselors there Is safety.” The blind egotist In the first place Lee If you are thinking of drilling a well on ^our premises, consult Lee Bros., Gaffney or Spartanburg. S. C., as to the merits of a drilled well. We are now drilling a well for the Victor Cotton Oil Co., in this city, and will be pleased to { nearly always underestimates the dlf- furnish any information desired Acuities of the work which he baa to on the subject of wells. - - - - fl 0 . He is like a commander of an In vading army who seems to despise the £2 strength of his enemies. He pretends BI-OS., to think that the opposing forces can not shoot as well as his soldiers can Gaffney or Spartanburg, S. C. | "boo* and that the very Sight of his "Ob," says tbe egotistic lawyer, “there is no need of my making much prepara tion for my case. I am one of the most brilliant and ready speakers at the bar.” All that he says may be true, but a Goliath may be slain by a little David if he leaves even the fraction of an inch exposed between tbe Joints of his armor. Many an ordinary lawyer has won his case from a brilliant attorney because be bad carefully and thorough ly prepared bis case and the other had not. "Oh,” says the brilliant preacher, “what Is the use of my working so hard upon my sermon? I have the gift of speech, and I can always talk.” Yes, some ministers can always talk, but It Is only the minister who realizes tbe enormous difficulties which confront the pulpit In the preparation of his ser mons who is the man able to deliver each Lord’s day a true message for God. Young man, you may be smart, people may say you are very brilliant, but I want to tell you there are hosts of people just as smart as you. Fur thermore, I care not bow smart you may be, remember this—It Is only the plodder, the hard worker, tbe man who, day by day and week by week, realizes tbe difficulties which are ahead and the struggles which must be made, who In the end will triumph. Natural ability will never accomplish much In this world unless It is re-enforced by the severest kind of work. The blinded egotist rarely measures the altitude of the mountains of dif ficulty be has to climb. He commits a worse folly than that. He deliberately shuts his syes to the mental and phys ical and spiritual Infirmities with which he Is handicapped. He seems to say, “Because I am strong In one character istic of my nature therefore I am strong In all characteristics.” He Is like Frederick the Great of Prussia. He was a great warrior and, single handed, contended with and defeated the greatest military powers of Europe, but he thought he was a great poet and a great philosopher. He Invited tbe greatest literary genius of all Europe, Voltaire, to come and be a member of bis royal court and praise his silly verses. He may be a great actor like Edwin Booth, but he will be foolish If he says: “Because I am a great tragedi an and can Interpret aright Hamlet’s soliloquy therefore I must be a great comedian and a great singer and a great playwright and a great musician and a great business manager. I shall Wagner." Now, God never made a man with all the talents. Just as certain diamonds have flaws In their makeup, we all have flaws, some of them perhaps serious. In our natures. It Is the wise man who is ready to recognize these flaws and limitations or who never engages in any enterprise in which they would be disastrous and never undertakes any work for which he has not the neces sary talent. TcittiiHK the CoinpaftN. And, furthermore, my friend, remem ber this—It does not take much of a flaw or weakness to absolutely destroy the whole fabric of a man’s life work. Did you ever see a sailor test his com pass? The ship will be sailing on day after day until it gets away from land. Then the rudder will be Jammed to the left. When you hear those rudder chains rattling you may he frightened and rush upon the deck. There you will see the ship swing around in a cir cle. “What is the matter?” you will cry. “Is anything wrong?” “No,” an swers the sea captain; “we are merely testing our compasses.” “But why did you not do this in the harbor?” “Ob.” answers the sea captain, “we cannot do that near the shore. The rocks and the land may exercise a magnetic influence. When we test our compasses we must be far out at sea. away from their in- 'fluence. The propinquity of a single nail may make the compass needle point in a false direction. If our com pass is unreliable it may send us upon tbe rocks or lead ns away from our true destination.” What the sea cap tain says about a faulty compass the great navigators of life teach about our weaknesses or failings. If a man does not recognize bis weaknesses and guard against his weaknesses, in the end these weaknesses will surely destroy him. Marie Antoinette wins our admiration by the heroism with which she went to Imprisonment and death, hut that does not require us to admire the frivolity and selfishness which led to her ruin, i George B. McClellan may have been the greatest organizer the American ; army ever had. hut that does not prove | that ho was (it to command at Shiloh j or In the Wilderness. Cicero had the most eloquent of tongues, but that did : not prove he could do the work of a i Caesar or a Cromwell. Every man has his limitations, and the sooner we reo- i oguize our limitations the sooner we { shall arrive at a just estimate of our powers. 1 But there is another fatal error to | which I want to call your attention. | Blind egotism may become Insanely | conservative. It is ruinous when It re fuses to n«irk the progress of new methods and discoveries. It is often ; found that an egotist who has mode a ! success in his younger days is apt to mark time and to think that the world, like an army, has also been marking time Instead of going ahead. Egotism ! seems to be incapable of readjusting ; Itself to new conditions of life. Be- ; cause the world once traveled In canal- boats or In stagecoaches therefore some egotists pretend that it Is never digni fied to travel faster than a snail’s pace. Because our fathers and fore fathers once read by candlelight there fore these modern egotists seem to think that there Is no house properly lighted without candles and that the chandelier, with its wires and globes, is a detestable abomination. Behind the Times. One of the most famous physicians of his day became shelved because he would not accept the new Investiga tions which had been made In the medical world. He not only positively refused to accept the theory of bac teria, but he refused to go Into con sultation with any practitioner who ac cepted that theory. His practice left him almost as quickly as tbe wavsa of tbe sea leave the shores on tbe ebb tide. Being called as an expert med ical authority In a murder trial of New York, the district attorney placed him on the stand and so twisted him up in hie answers that he nearly broke down and cried like a little child. Tbe man in tbe business world today must meet other conditions and plan bis mercan tile campaigns upon different lines from those adopted by the merchants of flity years ago. And yet some peo ple after tl}ey have made a little euc- cess seem to stand still. In their ego tism they seem to be unwilling to rec ognize the advance of the human race, and before they know it younger men come up to them and then pass them and leave them behind. Our lives must be a continual prog ress or else they will be a continual retrocession. I once read of a woman who bad a strange dream. In her dream she seemed to be at tbe bottom of a well. All was complete darkness about her. But suddenly she looked up. There, through the mouth of tbe well overbead, she saw a brfgbt star glowing. It seemed to say to her: ••Come, let me lift yon. Rise, rise, rise!” And. strange to say, as she looked at tbe overhanging star she be gan to rise. She felt herself going op and up. But as she was rising she looked down, and Immediately she fell to tbe bottom of the well. Braised and sore she was Then she looked up again. Again that star began > lift her op. Higher and higher she went, but again she looked down and again ahe fell to tbe bottom of tbe well. “Ah.” she cried, “I know now what I mast do. 1 must never look down, bat always look up. Then as I keep my eyes upon that star It will lift me up and up until I stand upon tne firm ground overbead." Thus she did; thus she rose. Beautiful allegory that. It Is tbe allegory of life. Life should have Its stars which lift and not Its introspections and backward looks which drag us down. A man ■bonld not be like a gopher, wltb a little bole, now and then rushing out mound of dirt and look out over the broad psalries ami chatter, “See how big I am.” But he should bo like a traveler, always with his vision focus ed upon the distant hills. He should be continually striving to reach that which he has not attained. Egotism for the most part Is nothing but a bubble of self complacency filled with air. One puncture and It will burst and be gone forever. But the saddest fact to me about bankrupting egotism Is that It drives from our sides the very best friends that we have. It drives away those true men and women who want to be our friends and who want to help us if we will only let them. I mean those friends who are thinking of our inter est rather than their own. We simply turn to them ami say: “Thank you, gentlemen. 1 am perfectly able to take care of myself. If yon will clean your own front doorsteps I will look after my own.” In one sense we are in ex actly the same condition as was the young Prince Rehoboam, who had just inherited King Solomon’s throne. Kt'liolmnm'n Mistake. You know the simple story. No soon er was the old king dead than a dele gation of the Hebrew people came to the young prince and said: “Your maj esty, it Is simply an Impossibility for the people to bear any longer the heavy taxation which your father put upon us. These aqueducts and public gar- deus ami temples and houses may be very beautiful, but they are paid for by the sweat and blood of the common people. Now, therefore, make thou the | grievous service of thy father and his 1 heavy yoke which he put upon us light- ! er, and we will serve thee.” The young prince answered: “I will consider your petition. Come again after three days, and I will give you my answer.” That was well said, Rehoboam. No man has a right to decide a great question of 1 life hastily. Now, what did the young prince do in the meantime? First he { went to the aged counselors of his dead father. That is, he called In the* tried { old prime minister and the secretary of the treasury and the minister of the 1 Interior. These old statesmen hud been tested by many years of service. They j knew the policy of the past reign, and l they know what was just—what tbe new king could do and what he could not do. As honest ami tried veterans these gray haired, well trained states men said: “Your majesty, the men of j tills delegation are not inciters of a re- j hellion. They are as loyal to you as they were to your father. But the taxes j are too heavy. The people are groaning ; under them. Make them lighter. .Say a few conciliatory words to these men. j and your reign will be long and hap py.” Thus spake the wise old men. But the young prince was not satis fied with the advice of these old men. 80 he went to the companions of his youth. He called in these sycophants, who were accustomed to make sport with him. lie said: "Boys, what would you do? This delegation waited upon me this .norning, and the old states men told ne I had better knuckle down to them.’ With that the young men answered: “What—are you not king? Are you going to sit upon a throne and not rule? I would tell these meu that I should do as I pleased and that my word was law. I would say: ‘My fa ther made your yoke heavy, and I will add to your yoke. My father also chas tised you with whips, but I will chas tise you with scorpions.’ ” A smile of pleasure now lights up the face of the young prince, and his egotism Is beau tifully tickled and flattered. Then he forsook the counsel of the old meu and clave to the counsel of the young men and thereby lost most of his kingdom. Oh, my brothers, are we like Reho boam in our ruinous egotism, driving the best friends we have from our side? ▲re we going to turn our backs upon the dear, good, noble Christian meu and women who have loved our parents for fifty years? When these Christian disciples come to us and say: “Young man, I love you for your father’s sake; my boy, don’t drink,” shall we flush up and answer, "I will do Just as I please?” When that dear good man ■ays to us, "My son, yon had better curb that temper or It will ruin you,” ■ball we drive our fangs Into him with their bitter venom? There Is no need of my running through the long list of your weaknesses. You know what they are better than I do. Your true friends, your best friends, have warned you against them. Are yon going to drive those true friends from your side, as did Rehoboam, and refuse to heed the warning signals they display over your physical, mental and spiritual Infirmi ties? And, oh, my friends, are we also go ing today on account of yonr sinful egotism to drive that best of all friends, Jesus Christ, from your side? He Is even now laying tbe hand of love upon that shoulder. He Is even now. wltb his eyes of yearning, looking Into thy eyes. He Is saying: “My child, I want to be thy friend and stay by thy side and help thee in the awful struggle of life, but I cannot stay and be thy friend if thou wilt continue to trust to your own guidance. Wilt then not let me stay, and wilt thou drive these evil ad visers away?” What Is thy answer, O man, O woman? Wilt thon let Christ stay by thy side as an everlasting friend and adviser? You most answer this plea and answer It now. Wilt thon receive Christ as thy friend and coun selor? [Copyrtsht, 1906. by Louis Klopsch.] Happy Home To have a happy home you should have children.] They are great happ'-home makers. 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