The ledger. [volume] (Gaffney City, S.C.) 1896-1907, May 17, 1907, Image 7

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Nearly all ether cougt .t. es are eon«( i patlng.l especit ..y thcsaL containing Opiates™ Kennedy's Laxative He .nev ii Ter moves the bowel-, contains' no Opiates. KENNEDY'S LAXATIVE CONTAfMNO HOFJYliTA! J PREPARED AT THE LABORATORY OP C. C. DeWITT & CO., CHICAGO, U. g. A. For aalo by Cherokee Drug Co.. Qaffney; U O. Allison, Cowsena. BONDS FOR SALE. Sealed bids will be received by the undersigned until 12 o’clock noon May 25th, 1907, for the purchase of $25,- 000 of bonds to be issued by the Trustees of School District No. 10, Gaffney. S. C. Denominations will be $500 or $1,000 and said bonds are to bear 5 per cent interest payable semi-annually and mature in twenty years. Each bid must be accompa nied by a certified check for $1,000. Such checks will be promptly return- 'ed to the unsuccessful bidders. The rleht to reject any and all bids re served. Additional Information fur nished. Address B. B. STEEDLY, Chairman Board Trustees. Gaffnev. S. C. May 10, 17. NOTICE OF FINAL DISCHARGE. Notice Is hereby Kiven that on Sat urday. May 25th, next. I will apply to Hon. J. E. Webster. Probate Judge, at his office at the court house In Gaff ney, S. C.. at 10 o’clock, a. m.. for a final settlement and discharge as executor of the estate of Samuel A. Stacy, deceased. All persons balding claims against said estate must ap pear and present the same at or be fore that time, or be forever barred. Richmond Stacy. As executor estate Samuel A. Stacy, deceased. Pub. in Gaffney Ledger Mlay 3. 10, 17 and 24, 1907. NOTICE OF FINAL DISCHARGE. Notice Is hereby given that on Mon day. May 20th, next, I will apply to Hon. J. E. Webster. Probate Judge, at his office at the court house Ip Gaffney. S. C, at 11 o’clock a. m. k for a final settlement and dischrage as administrator of the estate of Lewi? H. McSwain. deceased. All persons holding claims against said estate must appear and present the same at o- before that time or be forever bar red. 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W# do not tf« all kinds of printing -we do tho GOOD kina Loa Angeles, Cal., May 12.—In thla sermon the preacher calla attention to the universally prevalent aln of Ingrat itude, aa shown In oar lack of appre ciation of many blessings that coma into our dally Uvea. Tho text to Lake xvU, 16, “And one of them, when ho saw that he was healed, turned back and with a loud voice glorified God.” Travelers tell ua that In one of tho eastern states there is a high mountain range and to go from one part of thla state to the other you must climb those mountains. The upward pattiway bends and winds, now overarched by trees, now under the shadow of aome overhanging cliff, but still onward and upward. The wearied traveler, pant ing and puffing, is too exhausted to look back and nee the beautiful valley he has left behind. He keeps saying to himself, “Oh, If I were only at the top, then the rest of my Journey would be easy.” Suddenly the trees ahead of him abruptly cease and Instead of overtopping branches he sees the blue sky rimming the top of the mountain. With a final spurt he reaches the top. There, much to his surprise, upon the summit he finds a rude bench of stone upon which have been carved these words: “Rest and be thankful!” Yes, traveler, rest and lie thankful that the hardest port of your toilsome Journey Is over. But also rest and be thank ful because some good kind brother has made you the stone bench upon which you can rest your weary limbs and aching back. If the time should ever come when you can meet that thoughtful brother who made that seat and chiseled that invitation upon the top of yonder mountain, tell him how much bis work was appreciated. Tell him that the bench of stone not only gave you physical rest, but that his words reminded you of a duty. How mm'li harder our lot would be If there were not some people consld- ] erate and kind to weary travelers on ! life’s Journey! Some people take the kindness gratefully, while others need the admonition, “Be thankful.” An American art student In Paris fells of meeting his laundress at some distance from home with her bread basket upon her arm. She was going to the bakqry to get her rolls and bread for the day. He asked her: “Why do you go so far for your bread every day? Does the baker where you go make better bread than any other bak er In Paris?” “No,” answered the wo man, “he does not make better bread. The reason I cross the Seine every day to buy my bread at monsieur’s Is be cause a few years ago my husband was thrown out of work, and I was very sick. We had no money In the bouse, yet for weeks this baker trusted us, and kept us supplied with bread. Had It not been for his goodness my husband and children might have starved. As he cared for ns when we had nothing, I must not forget his kind ness now that we have much.” To be thankful means to be “thoughtful.” That means so to train our grateful memories that we will never forget the kindness of those who have helped us In the dark days of our past struggles. I have heard of hearts unkind, kind deeds With coldness still returning; ▲las, the gratltudo of men Hath oftener left me mourning. The hero of my text Is a “thankful” man, a “thoughtful” man, a man who would not If he could and could not If he would forget the priceless blessing which Jesus bad conferred upon him. For years this man bad been a social outcast. He was a repulsive, loath some leper. His father and mother had turned against him. His brothers and sisters had fled from him as they would from a mud dog. His wife and children, if he hail a wife and chil dren, had deserted him. With sticks and stones he had been driven forth from the habitations of man. One day, with nine other lepers with whom he was associating, be stood upon the bill- side and saw Jesus and the multi tudes passing by. By the strange law of the leper world, which gathers In formation from every source, these ten lepers learned that It waa Jesus, the miracle worker. So these ten lepers begin to cry out at the top of their voices for divine help. Again and again they call, “Jesus, Master, have mercy on us!” Christ turns toward them, as be always turns at the call for help, and practically says: “Yes, I will cure you of your horrible Infec tious disease. Go show yourselves unto the priests.” “And It came to pass that as they went they were cleansed.” ”1 Am Wall! I Am Walll” No sooner did this leper of my text feel the scales drop off his body and the blood of health course through bis veins than at once he cried: ”1 am well! I am well! I must g6 back at once and thank the Lord for what he has done for me.” “And one of them, when be saw that be was healed, turn ed back and with a loud voice glorified God aud fell down on his face at his feet, giving him thanks, and he waa a Samaritan.” We respect that man, and we have a poor opinion of those other nine who went on without giving thanks. But the Incident has a lesson for us. We have received many bless ings from Qod. Are we like the cleans ed Jewish lepers who went forward ungratefully or like the Samaritan who “turned back and glorified God?” Like the cleansed leper of my text 1st ns thank God for our physical health. Let us thank God that we have food enough to aat Mors than with which to many of us who hare perfect health forget to thank God for a good pair of lungs end for steady nerves end for s regular heart for good teeth, for good eyes and a good pair of lags upon which to walk! How many of os omit to thank God when we get up In the morning that the Joints of our bodies do not squeak on account of rheuma tism, like an old rusty hinge which has not been moved for many years! When we go to bed at light do wa thank God that we can go there to sleep and not have to toss hour after hour until at last we cannot endure the suffering any more and we have to' arise and light the gas and go to reading In or der to distract oar Irritating thoughts? In other words, do ws thank God that we have health and strength? Too often we neglect to do so until we have learned by pain and Buffering the bless ings we have lost Yon who hava suf fered like the leper of my text or like •cores and hundreds of ns who have passed through years of pain and weakness then you know why I put the blessing of physical health In the forefront of this sermon. The Leper's History. Have you never by personal experi ence been able to picture the distress of this poor leper of my text before he was compelled to confess himself a hopeless leper? I have often. I have sometimes imagined him one of the stalwart men of the east. I have Im agined him grow a healthy boy, a healthy young man, and then marry. He has a beautiful home, a dear wife and a couple of lovely children. All that Is possible to make a young man’s life happy Is his. But one day while taking a bath he sees a little white spot Just over his left shoulder. He does not think much of it at first. He tries to rub it away, but It will not rub off. Then In a week or two he sees that this small white spot Is growing a dttle larger. A month later he finds It still a little larger. He tries to mas sage It with a rough towel, but It will not rub out. Now he begins to have his suspicions. His face takes on a wor ried look. He does not tell any one, even bis wife. Now he cannot sleep well at night. He becomes cross and Irritable. One night his wife misses him from her side. She gets up to find out where he Is gone. She finds him In the next room bending’ over the sleep ing children. He is weeping and wring ing his hands, saying, “Oh, who will look after these children after I am gone?” “What is the matter, hus band?” she says. # “You are not going to leave the babies, are you? Is any thing the matter?” He says, “Nothing, nothing,” for he dare not tell her the truth. Then he feels himself gradually growing weaker and weaker. One day he faints dead away. When the servants undress him to put him to bed, they find out his true condition. He Is a leper, a doomed leper. Then they drive him out from the home. They drive him out from the habita tions of man. They drive him out to live and to die among the lepers. Thus you can see how grateful that leper ought to have been when Jesus brush ed away the fatal scales of leprosy from off his breast and arms and neck and forehead. Do you wonder that that leper returned to thank God for his physical health? t Thanks For Haalth. Ought not scores and hundreds of us to thank God for our restored physical b’ealtb? Some of us well remember the day when he never expected to be strong and well, as we are now. Per haps your physical history has been that of many. Perhaps we came up to twenty or twenty-five years of age and never knew what It was to have an ache or a pain. Then disease, like a creeping paralysis, got bold of us. Then our health came back to us al most as miraculously as did the re stored health of the ancient leper. We felt as one snatched from the tomb. Like the leper of old, are you grateful to God for that restored physical health? Remember there was a day when you would gladly have given every dollar you ‘owned to be physical ly well as you are today. Now, are you glorifying God, like the leper of old, for your restored physical health? Ob, the inestimable blessings of a sound physical body! Who would dare to keep silent Ups when God has thus blessed him with a sound physical frame? But next to the blessing of physical health, for what do you suppose that leper of old thanked Jesns? Do you suppose that cleansed leper kept kneel ing at Jesus’ feet, saying: “Master, Master, I can never thank thee enough! I will never leave thee! I will always stay by thy side if thou wilt only let me?" No, I do not belle. a that leper did any such thing. I do not believe he stayed with Christ very long. I think he ran to Christ to give him his thanks. Then he said: “Mas ter, I want to run home and see my wife and children and father and mother, and all my dear ones. Oh, I want to tell them what you have done for me. I want to take them In my arms and kiss them, Just as I used to do before these fatal scales came upon my breast.” Then I think Jesus said: “Go, my son, go! Go and tell your dear ones the glad news. I have given them to you to love Just as I have given yon your physical health.” Now I see that cleansed leper running to ward his old home. I hear him say as he goes: “Jesus has given me back my father and mother and brothers and sisters and wife and little chil dren. Thank God for my restored home! Thank God!” As yon thank God today for your physical health, are you also thanking Him for the sanctity and the purity and the love of your domestic circle? Thanks For Relatives. Do you thank him for your babies' cribs? Do you thank him for your mother is yet alive and that she la aver thinking and planning and praying for her boy, no matter where she Is? Do yon thank God because your dear ones' Joys are your Joys and because your sorrows of life are lessened by their willingness to help you share them? Have you ever thanked God for the Infinite joy be has given to you of liv ing and working for the treasured members of the home circle? Ah, yes, we appreciate our dear ones when God takes one of them away from us. Why do wa not and why can we not appreciate our loved ones when they are by our side? If any of tham should hava gone beyond we should think of death simply as a transition, a going from one group of loved ones to another group of loved ones. Can you not thank God for the wife, the mother, the father, the sister, the brother, the child of the family circle? Can you not, Ilka the leper of old, thank God for the purity and the love of the domestic fireside? Bat no sooner did this clearsed leper reach his home and clasp his dear wife and children and loved ones in his arms than at once the news began to spread. It flew like a white winged messenger of joy from housetop to housetop. “Have you heard the news?” asked one neighbor of another. “Why, our long lost friend has been cleansed of his leprosy. Come, let us up and give our hand of love and join this happy family circle. Ob, the good ne\Ls; the good news! Come, let us go up and tell how we have mourned for him and bow we glory fn his won derful cure.” Then I thluk the neigh bors spoke to each other. Now I see them hastening to the home. Some knock and others rush right in. These neighbors squeeze bis band; they pat his cheek; they laugh and weep for Joy. Can you, O man, thank God for your many friends who are living un der the shadow of your home today? When we were sick did not onr friends come In to nurse us and to bring the delicacies? When we lost a child and the undertaker hung the black crape upon our door, have not our loving, sympathizing friends come In to stand by our side at the casket? When we were In financial trouble, if we were honest and true, have they not always been willing to come to our as sistance? Have they not always been true to us In times of sorrow as well as in times of joy? I once read of an old Danish captain who gave battle to an English frigate. After the battle had been raging for some time a flag of truce was raised, and the old cap tain In a rowboat pulled over to the English frigate and made this strange request. He said: “My powder has run out. Will you please furnish me some of your powder, and we will continue to fight?” Well, no one ever heard of a man going to an enemy for help, bat we have heard of bis going to his friends. Ah, yes, our friends In the past have helped us again and again and again! Thank God for your friends! Thank God for noble, true hearted, brave, self sacrificing friends! The Altar of God. Again, this cleansed leper must have been thankful that the doors of the temple were once more opened to ^Ive him a welcome to the altar of God. In olden times, leprosy was looked upon as the symbol of heinous sin. Thus the poor leper not only felt that he was barred from fellowship with man, bat also from communion with God. Me- thlnks I can see these lepers some Sab bath day gathering «upon one of the hillsides near to Jerusalem. The serv ice Is going on within the sacred walls The music, which cannot lie circum scribed by four walls, drifts through the portal and, like a bird, soars over the hills. The poor lepers are listening to the sweet psalms. As the choir sings, they think of the time when they used to gather in the temple with the worshipers. And methlnks I see the tears rain down their parched cheeks as they weep and cry: “O Lord, why hast thou shut me out from thy love? Why am I barred from thy holy wor ship? Wilt thou never again speak to me In tones of pity and pardon? Wilt thou never forgive me my past sins?” Then when Jesus cured the poor sick man of his leprosy be seemed to say: “Son, thy sins are forgiven thee! Thou are welcome now to Join in public worship. Thou mayest now go Into the temple and sing God’s praises. Though tby sins are as scarlet, yet they shall become white as snow.” Thus I hear the poor leper cry: “Lord, I thank thee that when thou bast cleansed me of my leprosy thou hast forgiven me my sins. I thank thee, Lord. I thank thee!” Today can you not glorify God like the poor leper, because Christ by his atoning blood has made It possible for you to be cleansed of all your past Iniquities, so that In the sight of God you can be pure through his word? Blotting Out Sin. Ob, the power of the blood of Jesus to blot out sin! Who has tongue elo quent enough to fully describe it? There Is a beautiful story told that many years ago a woman came to her pastor bemoaning ber sins. “They are a heavy burden,” she said. “They are like a load of wet sand.” The minister heard and agreed. “Have you ever been on that strip of sand by the bea con?” he asked. “Oh, yes; many times," she said. “Go there now," said he, “and dig. Pile the wet sand up Into a great mound. Pile it as high as you can and then see what becomes of It.” “Ah,” exclaimed the penitent woman, “I know what you mean. The flowing tide will come and wash it all away.” “Yes,” said the minister, “so the blood of Jesus Christ can wash away all your sins, though they may be as Infinite in number as the sands of the sea.” Like the poor burdened woman and like the leper who was cleansed of his fatal scales, should not you thank God that by the death of Wa wonder what the later life of that leper was. Did his gratitude exhaust itself in that loud voice with which be glorified God? We cannot think so. Day by day as he went around In health and strength he would remem ber who It was that gave him bis new life and would strive to live In accord ance with Christ’s teaching. Is not that our duty? Shall we praise him for delivering us from slu and then go away and forget our obligations? The life that Christ has given us, like that be gave the leper, should be a life de voted to him, consecrated to him and to bis service. He has told ns how we may show our gratitude. He die * “that they who live should henceforth live not unto themselves, bat unto him who died for them.” [Copyricht. 1907. by Ix>ul* Klopsch.] Business and Prayers. An interesting case at law which centered on the observance of an old Jewish custom was decided in Vienna recently. A merchant, says the Ameri can Israelite, discharged a clerk on ac count of neglect of duty. Among the charges against him was that he came to the store late In the morning be cause he attended service at the syna gogue In order to say Kaddlsh—the prayer for the dead—for his father. The clerk argued that it was his privi lege and his duty to say the prayer for his departed father, while the mer chant. who was also a religious man. maintained that “if Moses had known lat a man had to pay 8,000 gulden a y- ar rent he would have made differ- ei laws.” The judge would not allow such an argument, but decided in fa vor of the merchant “because the dai ly attendance at the synagogue could not be considered as the right of the clck without the consent of the em- plo. er.” Bryan aa Salesman. “Book agents have their trials,” said WilLam Jennings Bryan, “but I think If some of them would adopt my tac tics they might simplify their difficul ties.” Mr. Bryan did not peddle books, but on one occasion he under took to sell off to the citizens of the Salem neighborhood in Illinois ten maps v hich his brother had been un successfully peddling for several weeks. .Mr. Bryan started bravely forth one morning, and when he reported that evening ' ? had sold every map. “How r did you do It?” said his astonished brother. "I took my payment in mer chandise,” returned Mr. Bryan. “The one I sold to the barber will keep me shaved for weeks. I have stored my pantry with another from the grocer, and the remainder I traded In on a few little bills I owed around town. It was very simple.”—Louisville Courier-Jour nal. The Ocean Speed Mania. One of the great transatlantic steam ship lines Is about to build a number of vessels vVhich will travel one and a half knots an hour faster than their rivals. This extra speed means that the new boats will have to Install six ty-eight additional furnaces, six more boilers, over 52,000 additional square feet of heating surface and will have to develop an additional 30,000 horse power. To provide for the increased weight the ship has to lie lengthened 78V6 feet, broadened 10 feet and deep ened 4 feet and the displacement en large:! 12.000 tons. If turbines were not employed at least three 25.000 horse’tower engines, with shaft and sc: won! I have been nec- essary and many difficulties would have had to l e solved to place these so as to. bahuvo ve vhts and avoid vi bration.—< 'hicago News. Animtls’ Nurses In London. A Londo.i paper says that nurses skilled in the diseases of cats and dogs can obtain regular employment at $10 a week for looking after sick prize and |x*!igree pets. There is a training school for animals' nurses in Pimlico. \ certificate Is granted to apt pupils after six months’ experience in the care of sick creature., of all sorts, cats and dogs particularly. Women make much fletter kennel nurses than men do. and there Is a growing demand, es pecially in big country lion -.os. for the services of women able skillfully to carry out a veterinary surgeon’s treat ment. One successful dogs’ nurse holds the full certificate of a well known London hospital, but she prefers to de vote her nursing talents to canines rather than to humans. Implement Co. Hava Just Issuad a Haw Catalogue of Farm Implements. 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The most intelligent women now-a-days insist on knowing what they take as med icine instead of opening their mouths like a lot of young birds and gulping down whatever is offered them. "Favorite Pre scription” is of KNOWN COMPOSITION. It makes weak women strong and sick women well. Dr. Pierce’s Medical Adviser is sent free on receipt of stamps to pay expense of mailing onlu. Sena to Dr. K. v. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y., 21 one-cent stamps for pa per-covered. or 31 stamps for cloth-bound. If sick consult the Doctor, free of charge by letter. All such communications are held sacredly confidential. Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets invigorate and regulate stomach, liver and bowels. FINAL DISCHARGE. Notice is hereby given to all con cerned that I shall apply to Hon. J. E. 'Wiebster, Provate Judge for Chero kee county. South Carolina, at bis of fice, Gaffney. S. C.. on Saturday. May 23th, 1907, at 11 o’clock a. m. for final settlement and discharge as guardian of the estate of Miss Lettie Olo Stacy, minor, but now of age. Richmond Stacy, Guardian. Pub. in Gaffney Ledger Miay 3 10, 17 and 24, 1907. Halt! Just stop and think one moment about your printed stationery. “A firm or individual’s printed stationery is an index to his business judgement.” If you want something that you can be sure will make a good impression where- ever seen bring your job printing of every des cription to us. We guarantee satisfac tion and can do work in a ‘‘hurry. 1 If ISe Ledger* Gaffney, S. C. Mail orders receive prompt attention. Dr.Klng*s New Life Pills The beet In the world. THE ORIGINAL LAXATIVE COUGH SYRUP KENNEDY’S UXATIVE HOIIEY»TAB Mad Cbm »!***.■ as* Boaor Mat aa Every iMtls, BANNER SALVE tha most haallng salvo In tho world. Buck!en’s Arnica Salve The Beet Salve la The WerM. M2 E. lopliHMBt CS ■I ft F0I1YSH0NEMCAR aura, Jga i KmM Dyspepsia •to what yea e Cure fttEttKimYCURE