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m :■ 7, P litMMMH Chamberlain’s j W A Cough Remedy The Children’s Favorite ---CURES--- Coughs, Colds, Croup and Whooping Cough. This remc.iy Is fainou« for Its cures over * large imrt of the civilized world. It can always be depended upon. It contains no opium or other harmful drug ami may be given as confidently t > a baby as to an adult Price 25 cla; Larg-o Size, 50 ere. "»i ''ii-nn rn - ~r»i— Calmage Sermon By Rev. Frank De Witt TaJmage. D. D. Los Angeles, t'al., Jan. 27. So\J T Stomach No appetite ley." oi strength, nervous ness, headache, conrticatien, bad breath, general debili'y, sour risings, and catarrh of the stomach are all cue to indigestion. Kodol relieves indigestion. This new discov ery represents the natural juices of diges tion as they exist it; a healthy stomach, combined with the greatest known tonic and reconstructive propei: c.s. Kodo! for dyspepsia does not only re eve indigestion and dyspepsia, but this famous remedv helps all stomach troubles by cleansinu. purifying, sweetening and strengthening the mucous membranes lining the stomach. Mr. S. S. Ball, of Ravenswocd \V, Va . says:— “ I was troubled with sour sf n ; ch for twenty yerrs. Kodol cured me ar.J we are :: v using it In ml He for baby.” Kodol Digests What You Eat. Miles only Re'>ves It.di ti^n, s-uir s? rrvrh, be chi. i; of . • , etc. Prepared by E. C. OcWlTT & CO., CHICAGO. For sale by Cherokee Drug Co„ Gaffney; L D Allibon, Cowtena. NOTICE OF SALE. By virtue of a decree of foreclusure •nd partition of the Court of Common Pleas of Cherokee county In the case ©f Alfred Gore, et al, plaintiffs vs. Gertrude Fowler, defendant, I will •ell at Gaffney b-’fore the court house door during the legal hours for sales, •n salesday Monday. February 4th, 1907, the following described prop- •rty, to-wit: All that certain lot. parcel or tract •f land, being and situated in said •ounty and State, containing one hundred and forty five (145) acres, ®ore or less, known as the “Thomp son place,” bound-d by lands of W. S. Lipscomb, on the north; by lands •f Sallie Lipscomb on the south and west and on the east by lands of John H. Lipscomb and Luther Bon- *er Also a lot of land south of the road leading from Goucher Creek church, known as the Morris land, contain ing three (3) acres, more or less. Said lands have been re surveyed and platted into two convenient tracts which can he seen in the clerk’s of fice and will be offered In separate lots and then as a whole, and if It should sell for more when offered as a whole than separately then the sale &g a whole shall he taken and con sidered the legal sale. TERMS OF SALE: One-third •ash. and the balance in one and two years equal installments, with in terest from day of sale, secured by bond and mortgage of the premises. Purchaser to pay for all papers and recording. J. Eh. Jefferies, Cl’k C. C. Pi’s. Pub. Jan. 18, 25 and Feb. 1. DISSOLUTION NOTICE. Notice Is hereby given that the firm of J. H. Curry, Luther Curry and V I. Spurgeon, doing business under the firm name of the Gaffney Brick Com pany. has been dissolved by mutual consent. All pprsons owing the o’d Arm will •ettle with J. H. Curry, who will also settle all obligations of the firm. J. H. Curry. Luther Curry, V. I. Spurgeon. COPARTNERSHIP NOTICE. Notice is hereby given that the GafTn®y Brick Comnany will continue In business. Joe Spake and J. S. Lem- wons having purchased the Interest* •f Luther Curry and V. I. Snurgeon. J. H. Curry. Joe Spake. J. S. Lemmons. Jan. 25, Feb. 1, 8. DeWItt’s K»2’ Salve For Pitas, Burns, Sores. FOimnONFMAR Cures Coldss Prevents Pneumonia lOimHONEMAR •tope tl&e oovSh end He*?«lun«» In tills iermon the preacher shows us how greatly It would conduce to the benefit of the world at large and to human happiness here and hereafter if men would cease to strive and quarrel over Biblical Interpretations and hair breadth differences in (Toeds and cere monies and with simple Christian faith unite in fraternal efforts for the com ruoii good. The text is Titus iil, 1). “But avoid foolish questions.” Have you a fathom line? Then drop It into the seas. Have you a telescope? Then cleanse its lens and focus It upon the stars. Have you a crowbar? Then with it pry open the hermetically scaled doors of the geological libraries ; and finger the leaves of rock and read the geneaologieal histories of the spe cies. Have you a microscope? Then with the bacteriologists roam through the corridors <>f the infinitesimal and find an aquarium in a drop of water and exquisite beauty in the end of a fly’s wing. God would not have placed the wonders of the heavens above us ami the wonders of the deep beneath us and the wonders of the land about us if he had not meant us to explore them and to try to make the works of his fingers part of our lives You never yet met an intelligent man or woman who was not continual ly asking questions and striving to un derstand the unknown. The indisposi tion 1o investigate and the unwilling ness to attempt the solution of the problems of life about us are always the sqgns of an Intellectual weakling. In the pirilual life, as well as In the politieal and the mechanical and the philosophical world, the one word which should lie most often spoken by the human lips is “Why?” We should be continually asking “Why this?” and “Why that?" and “Why the other thing?” Th-- human mind and soul cannot mark tin e. The mind must either broaden out or shrivel up. The Interrogation point Is a golden key with which we should try to unlock the manifold mysteries of the uni verse. But there Is an intelligent way of pushing that word I'Why?” and-a very foolish way. There is a way of asking “Why?” which proves to the world that you are sincerely desirous to obtain knowledge. Then there Is a way of asking "Why?” which proves to the world that you do not wish to learn, but are moved by curiosity only or by a desire to unsettle fundamental ques tions. There never was a foreigner who came to America who asked more questions than LI Hung Chang. But the questions which he asked were gen erally frivolous and to our ideas imper tinent. He would ask aged maiden ladies why they never married and how old they were. He would ask peo ple why they wore false teeth. He would ask this question and that and the other question until he made every one around him uncomfortable. Thus some people push that word “Why?” in a most ridiculous way. By the So- cratic method they try to argue God and Christ and the Bible out of the minds and hearts of their friends. With the interrogation point they would advertise to the world their transcendental reasoning powers when they are only advertising their trans cendental curiosity. St. Paul’s Advice. Paul in his epistle to young Titus advises him to beware of such frivo lous curiosity. When he tells him to avoid foolish questions he Is not cir cumscribing the intellect of this young man by telling him not to think and not to investigate. He is laying down the broad principle which you and I would do well to heed when he said, “Avoid foolish questions and genealo gies and contentions and strivings about the law, for they are unprofita ble aud vain.” In other words, avoid those foolish questions and contentions which have nothing to do with pressing home the great purposes of the gospel. Live only for those divine truths and self evident facts which will draw us nearer and nearer to the cross of Jesus Christ. The poet expressed my Inter pretation of Paul's meaning when he wrote: Some read the blessed book—they don’t know why— It somehow happens In their way to He, While others read It with uncommon care. But all to find some contradictions there. Some read to bring themselves Into repute By showing ofhers how they can dispute, While others read because the(r neigh bors do. To see how long ’twill take to read It through. Some read to prove a preadopted creed. Thus understand but little what they read. And every passage of the book they bend To make it suit that all important end. Some people read, as I have often thought, To teach the book Instead of being taught. qnate description of the beauties of Shadyslde, which was limited to an architect’s specification of the details of the h >me of the father of American letters. It might be al - utely correct aud its measurements unimpeachable, but we should miss the spirit aud the tender associations of the place that wou’.d make us feel that we saw It as Irving saw it. And yet some men seem t school themselves against studying the spirit of the Bible. They read mere ly the letter of the book. By reading the letter only they lose the true pur poses for which the Bible was given as n guide to us through this world to the other. The Case of Galilei. This fact was conspicuously Illus trated in the persecution of the physi cist and astronomer, Galilei. You are familiar with the story of his life. He was not the first inventor of the tele scope. but he was without doubt the first intelligent user of it. He focused his eyes upon the heavens and began to follow the movements of the heav enly bodies. He went on in his inves tigations until at last he found out that the earth moved around the sun. “Absurd! Absurd!" cried the Church of Rome. “The earth does not move about the sun; the sun moves around the earth. Hoes not the Bible tell us that Joshua halted the sun above Gid- we shall open our minds and hearts to the full en.; i.vment of the gospel life, and. my brother. 1 never want you to sit at the feet of any religious teacher unless he is first willing t» confess that In his gospel investigations there are certain mysteries so hig'» that lie can never scale them, so deep that he can never fathom them, so wide that he can never cross them. We come to our pastors and friends and ark Just the same kind of foolish questions that the disciples asked Christ of old. We come to Christ, for Instance, 'and ask: “Jesus, here Is a man who has been married two or three times on earth. When he gets to heaven. Is that man going to be a Mor mon and have two or three wives?” Then we begin to make flippant re marks about how a man Is going to get along in heaven with two or three wives. You know this is the question which the Sadducees propounded to Jesus himself. Or we begin to try to solve the resurrection of the physical body, or wo go into a long and elabo rate study of where Christ spent his time between the crucifixion and the resurrection, or we try to solve the mystery of the Trinity. And Instead of going ahead in a brave, noble Chris tian way, doing the w ork which God gives us to do and accepting the atone ment of the cross, we fritter away our eon and the moon in the valley of gospel peace and usefulness by asking impossible questions and in trying to solve impossible mysteries. Now. my friend, why cannot you follow' the ad vice of Paul? Why do you not concen trate all your faith on Jesus Christ? Why not accept him at his word and Is there today any doubt or mystery in your mind which can outweigh the in finite fact that Jesus was born the Son of God, that he died to save you and me, that he will pardon all our sins and that in him we may have ev- Ajalon? Aw’ay with the heretic! Away, away!” Then the so called literalist priests placed the heavy hand of the law upon Galilei and would have tor tured him to death had he not signed this humiliating recantation: “With a sincere heart and unfeigned faith I abjure, curse and detest the said er rors and heresies (viz, that the earth moves, etc.). 1 swear that I will never in the future say or assert anything verbally or in writing which may give rise to a similar suspicion against me. I, Galilei, have abjured as above with erlasting life? my own hand.” Let Mysteries Alone. Now, was there ever such unmitigat- jj mysteries of the Bi ed nonsense as that act of the church? ^ould uo t separate us from the It was the setting up of a claim that j OV g 0 f (jjoj, why should the great di- a book written to teach morality and vine mysteries keep uue Christian religion should be an authority on sci- church frum working in gospel fellow- enee also. It was as if one should in- s jjip with other Christian churches? sist on taking an incidental reference Because one Christian church puts spe- of a physician on a question of music ( .ial emphasis upon one of God’s attri- ns an authority superior to the dictum i UI tes in its creed or practice Is that of a musician. The Bible writers, in- ;mv reason why other Christian church- tent on teaching men how to live in c S which lay stress on another of God s this world so as to bo happy in the attributes should not affiliate with that next, learned in the things of God, but body of Christians or to operate with unlearned in the crude science of their it? Because one gospel chu. h loves to times, accepted the ideas current at sing the old psalms and another loves the period aud passed on to their ap- to use a liturgy and another church pointed topic. But Galilei was declar- loves to put emphasis upon immersion ed a heretic on such testimony and and another church makes the sermon Cease from sectarian differences, stop frittering away your time and go to work in his dear name. We can all lie one in unity for the cross. I remember many years ago, when in our seminary we were discussing the sacraments, I said to our professor: "Doctor, you say that wo must use wdne aud bread at the Lord’s supper. Suppose I were on au arctic expedition. Supposing we were caught amid the icebergs and in all probability were about to die; sup posing I wanted to have the com munion of the Lord’s supper with the men of the ship, and supposing the only food we had left was some hard tack and some soup, could I use the soup for the wine and the hard tack for the bread?” The professor looked at me a moment In surprise. Then he said: “Under such a condition the soup would be as acceptable to God as the wine and the hard tack as the bread. It is not Ihe wine and the bread that w r e lift to the lips which make us con secrated to the Saviour, but th<> spirt of the yielding of our own hearts to his divine will.” The old professor was right. It is not by ecclesiastical formulas that you and I are going to come to the cross, but only by consecrating our lives to Christ’s will. Friends, you may have been quibbling In the past. You may have been switching yourself off from the main spiritual Issue. Do you be lieve that Jesus is divine? Do you be lieve that he died to save you? Will you accept his offer of salvation? Will you here and now consecrate your life to save men aud women by Christ’s blood from sin and death and hell? go forth and work In God’s vineyard? „ . , “Yea, yea! you answer. Then pledge yourselves to him. Having given your selves to him and his cause, join with brethren of any name in work for him and, following the apostle’s advice, preach Christ crucified and avoid “fool- j Ish questions.” (Copyright, 1907, by I.ouls Klopseh.] The Farmer’s Wife Is very careful about her churn. Rhe scalds it thoroughly aft c using, and gives It a sun bath to sweeten it. She know# that if her churn is sour it will tamt the butter that is imide iuit. The. stomach Is a churn. In the stomach and digestive and uutritive tracts are performed pro cesses which are exactly akin to the churning of butter. Is it not apparent then th. t if this stomach churn is foul it makes foul all which is put into it? The evil of a foul stomach is not alo*e the bad taste in the mouth and the fopl breath caused by it, but the corruption of the pure current of blood and the dissem ination of disease throughout the body. Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery makes the sour and foul stomach sweet. It does for the stomach what the washing and sun brth do for the churn—absolutely removesbvery tainting or corrupting ele ment. In this way it cures blotches, pimples, eruptions, scrofulous swellings, sores, or open eating ulcers and all humors or diseases arising from bad blood. If you have hitter, nasty, foul taste In your mouth, coated tongue, foul breath, are weak and easily tired, feel depressed and despondent, have frequent headaches, ; dizzy attacks, gnawing or distress in stom ach, constipated or irregular bowels, soar or bitter risings after eating and poor appetite, these symptoms,r»r any consider able number of them, indicate that you are suffering from biliousness, torpid, or lazv liver with the usual accompanying Indl- S estion, or dyspepsia and their attendant erangements. The best agents known to i ledical sci ence for the cure of the above symptoms and conditions, as attested by the writings of leading teachers and practitioners of j all the several schools of medical practice, have been skillfully and harmoniously combined in Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery. That this is absolutely true will be readily proven to your satisfaction if you will but mail a postal card request to Dr. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y. t for I a/ree copy of his booklet of extracts from ; the standard medical authorities, giving j the names of all the ingredients entering Into his world-famed medicines and show- ; Ing what the most eminent medical men | of the age say of them. saved his life only by recantation. Let us be careful lest wedemaud of the Bi le more than it was ever intended to teach. More Bigoted Stup.dity. The same bigoted stupidity of the mediaeval church we can find in the church of the eighteenth aud nine teenth centuries. The scientists went on in their investigations, and they proved that this old planet was uot created fi.ooo or O.uuu years ago. It has been developing during thousands upon thousands and hundreds of thou sands of years. The Bib.e, by the way, does uot fix a date for the creation. It merely says, "hr the beginning.’’: (The dates on the margin are those of Archbishop Ussher. who lived in the s foundations became stronger, sixteenth century A. D. t The geolo- ^ earl y church grew It was uot only gists went on in their investigations able to resist and dnve back its perse- aud found eras aud epochs aud ages. the chief part of its service is it any reason why all these Christian church es should not be united in working for the same master and for salvation by the same divine blood? When you look over the ecclesiastical history of the world you will notice one striking fact—the church is apt to de- g“uerate when it becomes prosperous. After the crucifixion came the dark days of persecution. But the growls of the wild beasts, while crunching the bloody bones of the Christians in the Roman Coliseum, only welded that Christian ehunh closer together. The fires of persecution only purified it. The Christian church began to grow. As The Rich Pay the Book Fines. Wealthy people are careless, says the , public librarian. They are slow in re- , turning the books wnich they have i taken to read. Last year $1,422.79 in lines was paid at the library. This is the total of ' sums which ranged from 2 cents to a dolla’' It is the penalty paid for keep ing books longer than the prescribed week or two weeks. The fine is 2 cents a day. “Poor persons and persons in mod erate ciremnsiances are very punctual j in returning books.” Mrs. Whitney j said. “Very seldom do they keep them | overtime. But the wealthy are n >t so careful. A tine of a tew cents makes no difference, aud they pay it without comment “Not long ago a little girl came In the library and laid 2 cents down before the cashier. Her face was smeared with licorice, and her hands were gummy and sticky. She held a half stick of it closely in her hand. ‘“Your fine’s 14 cents,’ the cashier said. “ ‘Well, ’oo take ’at,’ the little one responded, 'an' ever’ time papa dives me a nickel to buy tandy I’ll save ’oo two pennies. An* I'll pay it.’ “That's financing a deficit,” Mrs. Whitney said. “We remitted the fine.” —Kansas City Star. Fire, Life, Accident, Health Insur- perhaps a million years apart. Not only did science prove the immense age of th • earth, but fiat the develop ment was a slow processor ages. They brought these facts to the church aud said, ”C.»nie and see a,id study.” The church threw up its hands in horror. “What will become oi our Bibles if you prove those statements true?” they exclaimed. “Does not the Bible de clare that God made the earth and the heavens in six days? No more and no less.” “Bui." said the scientific the ologians, “perhaps the 'day' of God's creation meant au era, uot a day of twenty-four hours." “Absurd!” cried the church. "Absurd! A day means a day of twenty-four hours aud nothing else.” So the church fought the in vestigations of science. They fought them on aud fought them on. The theologians said to the church mem- cutors, but it became stronger and stronger until at last it was able to lay claim upon the temporal as well as the spiritual life of the nations. Then the Catholic pope became the uckaowledg ed spiritual ruler of Die world. Then what happened? As the Roman Cath olic church financially prospered did it spiritually prosper? Nay. The Vatican became a cesspool of sin. The' Bible was a closed book. The torture cham ber was the holy of holies. Flagrant sin was everywhere in the church. Then came the divine mission of a new church. The Reformation. The reformation came to its birth. Martin Luther led the fight in Ger many, John Knox In Scotland and John Wyclif in England. The grasp of the pope was shaken off. but soon in the English church came laxity and In difference. Another reformation was bers, “If you believe this heresy you needed, and John Wesley and George are uot a Christian.” The result was Whitefield began to preach, and Metb- the church coniiuued to read the first <xRsm and Congregationalism began chapter of Genesis as literal history their mighty work. Still later William until it made Itself absolutely rldlcu- Booth has stirred the stagnant waters lous. They overlooked the essential with his Salvation Array. So as the fact that the “day” of the creation Is need has arisen God has unfailingly not a day o*’ twenty-four hours. “One raised up men to do his work, day is with the Lord us a thousand Wherever the churches, growing In years aud a thousand years as one numbers and In financial strength and day” (II Peter Hi. 8). power have drifted from God and tum- Now. there is the same disposition to- ed their Master’s temples Into places of day as there was in the mediaeval merchandise, wherever their preachers Value of Fishskins. "Fishskins are popularly regarded as about the most useless thing on earth, not good to eat and only valua ble to hoH together the good fish meat i Inside them.” said a man who had caught fish or worked in fish packing houses ail his life. “But just wait un- ; til we begin to pay more tor our glue, 1 and tnen we'll sit up and think about the fishskins. The market value of , this commodity has advanced rapidly the past few years, and in another year i It is going to take a decided leap up ward. “It was only a lew years ago that fishskins were thrown away as worth less. and the fish packing companies were seriously concerned as to how to ( get rid of them. In one place where I I worked there was a hole In the fish j skinning loft which was connected | with a runway into the water beneath the wharf. Even then we would fill up | the hole quicker than the skins could be carried away. Some firms used to go to the expense of having the skins carted away to some dumping ground. “But one day some one woke up to the fact that the skins had certain ad-1 heslve qualities, and fish glue began to be manufactured. Then fishskins took on a commercial value. Since then the price has advanced steadily. The demand now is so large that It Is prob able the price will be doubled sritbin a year.”—New York Press. ance Surety Bonds* Jones J. Darby FOR 'Jp-to-Date Job Print ing, call at the LEDGER Office. Gaffney, S. C. church and In the church of the nine teenth century. Some church members today are trying to stir up Internal strife by reading the letter of the Bible have become unlike the humble Nuzn- rene. then there have come a spiritual rebirth and a new church. Aud to this new church, this humble church, has Modern Witchcraft. How many English readers who have read the witch trial of Vienna know that just such women as Marie Neblly, DON’T FORGET I yon era be cured of Cancr, T» I I mor or Chronic Ohi Sores. Ten I I thousand cases treated. It Is tbs I I surest cure on earth. Delay It I i fata! How to be cured? Just I I write | i O. B. GLADDEN Grover. N. C. I FOR ALL COU TY NEWf, IM PORTANT HAPPENINGS lH THB *TATE AND EVENTS OF INTEREST N FOREIGN LANDS. TAKE AND READ THE LEDG2R. Instead of the spirit of the Bible. They fallen the task of spiritually leavening performing just such tricks, are to be •nd WHISKEY HABITS cured at home with, out pain. Book of aatw ticulars aent FKKB. | mmmmmmmKm h. m. woollf.y. m.d. I Atlanta, G*. Office 104 N. Pryor Street foleyskidneycure Msk— Kidneys and Bladder Right Kodol Dyspepsia •ts what yau ia Cure Paul is saying, “Titus, my son, study the spirit of the Scripture Instead of the letter of th * law." We should not l.e among those P.ible students who are spiritually nearsighted and hold their eyes so close to the sacred pages that they can on'y see a sentence or a word at a time, an 1 they do u >t realize that some of the pas’ ges of Scripture had special and exclusive reference to the times In which they were written and to the geographical con lltlons of the writers. That would be a vary Ins de- are trying to take certain Bible pas sages and twist them out of all sem blance of their true meaning. They do this with the assumed air of great spiritual erudition and gospel sanctity. When they quote these passages, they look at us In a very condescending way, as much as to say: “Have you not forgotten such and such a passage? Do you not wish you knew as much about the Bible ns I do?” The Spirit of the Bible. We should read the spirit of the Bi ble. More than that, we should never try to solve the unsolvable mysteries of God and his work, which can never be solved this side of the grave. Now, It Is a wise man who Is willing to rec ognize the fact that there are certain limitations to his mental and spiritual faculties. It Is a wise man who Is willing to confess that there are cer tain things he does not know and nev- the old churches of the world. Aud. my friends, if you do not believe that what I say is true I would like you to answer me one question. If Jesus Christ were to come upon earth today, where do you believe the lowly Naza- rene would prefer to preach—in the gorgeous Vatican of a pope, with his spotless robes, in the chancel of a great cathedral and be paid the $75,- O*) a year as its archbishop, or in some fashionable Protestant church whose wealthy members sometimes sit stolidly Indifferent to the great suffer ings of mankind? Or do you believe ' Jesus would feel most at home ns a street preacher, working with the hum blest workers in the slums? There can he but one answer. There is but one •elf evident reply. The Professor's Reply. Thus I have tried to show you that er will lie able to know this side of you have only one spiritual duty In heaven. When you and I come to that life- You are here and now to grasp glorious condition of mind and soul, the great doctrine of Jesus’ love. I I found In England? Marie seems to have surprised the Austrian Judge by her story of the Hungarian shepherd, Stephan Stepbanovics. who Is ninety ye^rs old and who sells charms aud in whom she believes. He made the re mark, which we have so often heard before, that the world Is not in the mid dle ages. But the judge is wrong. A great part of mankind is in the middle ages. If by that is meant that it be lieves in witchcraft. The credulous Austrian woman who thought that her husband could be cured of extrava gance if she gave a half of one of his socks to Marie Neblly. who would then for a small consideration In ready mon ey give a powder to cure him of spend- • thrift habits, has many French and English fellow believers. White and black witches thrive in many parts of England. And what Is more, they not only make dcpei, but uot a few of i hem really lielleve In their own charms, as the woman Neblly asserted that she did —Loudon Outlook. I PARKER’S HAIR BALSAM Cletnttt and bcvitiflM th* ha Promote* * luxuriant growth. N»ver Pail* to Reatorw Orwy Hair to it* Youthfal Color. Cure* Ka!p o >—• < a hair taiUi^ BANNER SALVE the most healing salve in the world. Foleys hon£Y jd tar for childrent •af*', sure* Afo opiated OR.KING’S NEW DISCOVERY Will Surely Stop That Couoh. E lectric bitters THE BEST FOB BILIOUSNESS AND KlDNZMl BucLiwn’s Arnica! Ihs Best Salve la Tha Wi |ua(i