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City Schools, Rock Hill, S. C. Aug-Sept-itw-np. Death to Fleas! Your do#* su(ter. "Blcaise's Mange Cure” will keep a dog free from fleas. Price SOe. 8-^1 taw-1 mo. Gaffneg Drug Co., SoleAgenta. TECHNICALLY EDUCTAED 2*1101* 1* K 10 r> 10 I> ! The demand Is far greater than the supply. Let the International Corraa* pondanca Schools, of Scranton, Pa., pre pareyou. Postal will fcflug Information on 20e courses. It’s free. 8-27-ly-np NOTICE. NOTICE—Hat* of all kinds clean ed and blocked. Clotlie* cleaned and pressed. Satisfaction guaranteed. Office over R. a. Jones’ store. Brown ft Riley. 1 aw Imo np. DR. J. P. OAR RETT. DENTIST. Moved t* new oflle« over Prods rich Street. Front of the Battery. ’Phono in Office and Reeldewse. DR. W. K. GUNTER, L> 10 J* X I ® Y Office in Star Theatre Building. Puonk No. 20. Crown and bridge work a specialty PARKER’S HAIR BALSAM Cktrae, and btaiitife* the hair. J'romotee ft luiuriftiit growth. Never gsilt to Xleetore Grey Bair to lit) Youthful Color. Cure* ftcftlp i' * n <•< a hair falling Bucklen’s Arnica Salve Tbs Best Salve In The World. FOLEWHONET-nTAR •top* Uve oowftla atMl laoala Icwfta r THE ORIGINAL LAXATIVE COUGH SYRUP KENNEDY’S LAXATIVE H0KEY«TAB ■at Cbm filoiMin «ni Honey Boo oo F.very Bottlo, MEETSDDNETHDffi DoWItVo ESd Sabo Dr. King’s Now UfoPMs Ni I/.s Angelos, Sept. 1.—In this sermon f<jr Labor day tbe preaeher shows it to be the duty of those who have prospered to make a generous and considerate use of their wealth, Instead of regarding It as a means to minister to their own selfishness. The text is Luke xii, 17, “What shall I do, because I have no room where to be stow my fruits?” The chief character of my text is an old miser. He Is Just like thousands of men and women we see in dally life or read about In the newspapers. He was evidently one of the agricul tural leaders of the east. Perhaps he started as a poor boy. He may have been one of the Immigrants who came s»* Ji rusalem during Herod’s adminis- I (ration. He may have been born In Italy and have gone to Syria to seek | his fortune. In this faroff province | of Hie east he hires himself out as a ! farm hand. He saves his wages and 1 works hard. Rut he has a keen mind ! as well as a willing hand. He buys i a little farm. There Is a period of I prosperity. The crops grow larger : and larger. He begins to have money to invest, and he places mortgages i ! upon his neighbors’ farms and merci- I lessly forecloses them. ^ His landed I estate widens. He Is one of those for- ! innate or unfortunate beings who, having an absorbing passion for gold, ^ Ibid everything turn to gold that they { touch. He builds great granaries, and they are always full. His sheep and cattle are browsing everywhere. Ills horses are the linest. Ills soil is the richest. Though he has many bams, the increasing crop is so great that he does not know what to do with it. He has more than he can use. In other words, he is embarrassed with the abundance of his riches. ‘‘What shall 1 do with all this crop?” he asks himself. “I must build larger bams. Then 1 will store away so much that I will never have to work any more and just live to enjoy my wealth.” Folly of Surplus Wealth. Let me read you the story: ‘‘And he said. This will I do—I will pull down my barns and build greater, and there will 1 bestow all my fruits and my goods.' ” Though he had more than he could use, he still kept gathering in. He doubtless thought himself a most successful man, and his neighbors, if they were such people as live In our times, envied him and looked up to him with reverence. But Christ tells us that there was another opinion of his life and character, and that, too, by one who held life and death in his hands. Hod said he was a fool. Now, it is a terrible thing for God to say that of any one, for his judg ment is true. None of us would like him to say that of us. Tben we must be careful to avoid these faults, for God judges now by the same stand ard as he did in the time of this rich farmer. Now, as his fault related to his surplus wealth, it is an appropri ate subject for consideration ou this Sunday preceding Labor day. Thoughts on Labor Day. I would say to a successful man: You know you are in utUuence. You know you have more than you can eat <fp or wear out. You know that you are hoarding up more money than will ever be good for your children to in herit. If you are a wise father, you will cojpi»el them to work for their living, as you worked for yours. It will Ik? better for you, instead of de veloping your penuriousness, to learn the gospel law of giving and of help ing. And today 1 want to tell you whom you ought to help with your sur plus wealth. First, when you begin to prosper in life you should be willing to aid those who have been directly or indirectly the means of making It possible for you to achieve the success which is yours. You should extend the hand of gratitude to those who helped develop you in your babyhood and boyhood and youth and manhood. You should think < f your father and mother in the old homestead, of your old teachers and of your old employers. They have a claim on you, for they devoted their lives to your (merest, and you should now recognize the obligation to help such of them as need your help. Then, too, there an* your employees. No man over wins his success alone. H always like to compare life to a great battle. A general baa a campaign to fight. What does he do? Hoes he take a gun and a sword and go forth and fight that battle single handed? No. He first collects an army made up of many soldiers. Then he organizes those soldiers and drills them. He drafts those soldiers from the best homes all over the land. He gathers them from the stores and the factories. Then he sots his army in motion and hurls It against the flunks of tbe en emy, and the lines are broken, and tbe battle Is won. Now, what would you think of a general who should come home from a war and nay: *T did It all. The credit Is all mine.” Would you not consider such a man a selfish man and an Ingrate? Who were tbe statf officers and the right hand men of that general? Who were the soldiers who did the weary sentinel duty and stormed the breastworks and risked their lives to make his victory possible? Are not the soldiers to have any part In the triumph and in the reward of the nation? A Word to Employsra. Ah, no! The true general and the soldiers of his army are one. When his soldiers are defeated, he shares the blame. And sometimes a general will take upon himself all the discredit of the defeat. Thus Hebert E. lA*e, after the battle of Gettysburg, said: “It was my fault. It was all my fault.” And General Burnside, after the battle of Fredericksburg, said: "It was my fault. It was all my fault.” And one of the last acts of brave Car! Schurz’s life was to write a defense of bis own Eleventh corps, which was defeated by Stonewall Jackson at Chancellors- vllle. while, on the other hand, one of the first acts of Sherman or Lee or Jackson or Grant or Wellington or Napoleon after a victory was to an nounce a long list of promotions for the men who had specially distin guished themselves In the fight and for the soldiers whose sacrifices had made the victory possible. “My sol dlers did it!” is always the cry of the true, successful general. “My soldiers! Praise me not any more than you praise the men who fight under me. If you reward me, then reward my soldiers too.” Now, should you not act on the same principle? Have there been no other hands besides yours building your “palace of success?” What about your fathers and mothers and brothers and sisters and the teachers ami friends of your youth? Have they had nothing to do with molding your char acter and developing your talents? Did not your parents give up the best part of their lives to your interests? Did not your sisters and brothers make sacrifices for j T our education? What about the little old village church where you used to be taken as a boy and where, to a great extent, your spir itual character was formed? Have you ever done anything for that church? Have you helped to pay off Its mortgage? Have you bought a new organ for that church? Have you ever sent a dollar to help support tbe poor widow of your old pastor, who did so much for your spiritual health? How about your old schoolteachers? Have you done anything for them? No. You stick your thumbs in the Girard during his lifetime was a Shy- lock who always demanded his full pound of flesh from his victims. In his financial dealings he seemed to be as merciless as an Ebenezer Scrooge or • wrinkled up, shriveled hearted Mar- ley. But, though Stephen Girard was mercenary, he was no fool. He knew that he could not tak'e his gold across the river Styx, so as he l>ogan to grow old and come nearer and nearer to the end of life he said to himself: “I must leave this money behind when I die. I will leave It to the people to whom It can do the most good.” Then he asked himself this question: “Who are the people who most need help? Why, they are the children who have no fa there to help them along and to give them the right kind of a start.” So Stephen Girard lumped all his fortune together. He left It to a board of trastees to establish an Institution in which the fatherless boys of 1‘eunsyl- vania could be clothed and fed and ed ncated until they were able to take care of themselves. Could he have done a grander work with his money? Tell me, with so many helpless young people about, cannot you do something to help those young folks by your side? Protection of Youth. But, though all people should try to help the helpless young folks, this plea ought to come especially home to those who have never been blessed with chil dren. God pity the man or the woman Into whose heart there lias never come a little child to love and to develop- No human life is complete without a' child. My friend, if you have not a child, bone of your bone and flesh of much npedeo. In helnln* along the ‘l^ld folks’ homes,*’ In endowing hosplBii beds for the sick nml In helping to Alleviate the sufferings of those who are dependent upon humnn medica ment? In Qod’a Vineyard. And I plead with you thus to scatter your money for anothe’ reason. When you begin to give your money to the lame, the halt, the blind and the aged, the time will not be far distant when yoc will gladly give your own per gonal strength to the care of the un fortunate as well as your money. It is almost an impossibility for a man to continually give bis money to the un fortunates of life unless nt the same time he gives his personal self to the same service. The story is told by a London pastor that one day he was visiting at a humble home, and among the donations he received for the mis sionary cause was a half shilling from a little boy who sold newspapers upon the street. A short time after there was a great missionary meeting to be held In Exeter hall. What was the surprise of some of this newsboy’s friends to see him with his face and hands washed going along In his Sun day clothes to the missionary meeting. “Hey, there, Bill,” they cried, “what’a the matter? Where are you going?” “Oh,” said Bill, “I gave my money to this missionary cause. I am a partner In the business, and I am going to the meeting to find out what those fellows are doing with my money.” So when | a man gives his money to help God’s : unfortunate ones the time will not be ! A Lazy Liyer Hay be only a tired liver, or s starved liver. It would Ik? a stupid as well as savage thing to U*at a weary or starved man because he lagged In his work. iSo In treating the lagging, torpid liver it is a great mistake to lash it with strong drastic drugs. A torpid liver Is but an Indication of an Ill-nourished, enfeebled body whose organs are weary with over work. Start with the stomach and allied organs of digestion and nutrition. Put them in working order and see how qnickly your liver will become active. Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery has made many marvelous cures of "liver trouble” by Its wonderful control of the organs of digestion and nutrition. It re stores the normal activity of the stomach. Increases the secretions of the blood-mak ing glands, cleanses the system from poi sonous accumulii lions, and so relieves the liver of the burdens imposed upon it by the defection of other organs. If you b&ve bitter or bad taste in the mom* log. poor or (Variable appetite, coated tonfrae, foul breath, cokstlpatedor irregular bowels, feel weak, eaallx tired, \jspendent, frequent headaches, pain Ar dlstrnlta "small of bach.* gnawing or disfressed feerlng In stomach, perhaps nausea.>uiS«^er , ^ohr"rlaincs” la throat after eating, and klmHAI symptoms of weak stomach and torpid liVaft no medl- clne will relieve you more promptly or cuf rou more pennari.-nlly Than Lector Pier ' Perln you more Golden ? far distant when that man, as one of your llcsh, to love and to nurture, then Christ's disciples, will be working In for your own good as well as for the vineyard with his own bands good of some helpless children I beg an( j j lIu j |jj )S H11( j and plead with you to adopt one. Do y 0U are going to make anything not be afraid that an adopted child, on ou ^ Q f y 0lu . ijf e iu reference to happl- account of Its unfortunate parents, may turn out bad. Dr. T. J. Bnmardo, the greatest authority on children of the slums that ever lived and the one man who saved more children to God and to worldly usefulness and respeeta-. bllity than other men, gave this as his testimony: “I am strongly of the opin- ion that there is no inherent tendency In any boy or girl, no matter how 1 descended or how tunrounded, which' may not be eradicated or at least sub jugated under favorable conditions. In the fierce contest between heredity and ness, It Is about time for you to com mence to work for God’s unfortunate ones. You know as well as I know that the selfish life does not pay. Yon know that a long succession of dances and parties does not bring to yon the pence that was enjoyed by your Chris tian mother and father, who spent most of their lives in helping God’s needy. Will you, O man, stop storing np your harvests in your granaries? Will you not rather scatter them abroad for suffering mankind? Will you not give your life for others and Golden Medical Discovery, rerii&pa only a part of tbe above nipuWs will be present at one time and yet point to torpid liver or biliousness and weak stomach. Avoid all hot bread and biscuits, griddle cakes tnd other Indigestible food and take the "Golden Medical Discovery ” regularj^and stick to its nse until you aro vigorous and strong. The ''Discovery" is non-secret, non-alco holic, Is a glyceric, extract of native medici nal roots with a full list of its ingredients printed on each bottle-wrapper and attested under oath. Its Ingredients are endorsed and extolled by the most eminent medical writers of the atre and are recommended to cure the diseases for which It Is advised. Don’t accept a substitute of unknown composition for this non-secret UKDlcura or Known couroMTion. lanol of your coat and pat your chest environment I lirmly believe that, all; ^ seeking their joys find your own rich approvingly and contentedly say: "I am a self made man. These people had nothing to do with my present suc cess. I won'll all. Yes, I won it all.” 1 know" from your words that your un grateful hesirt lias turned into stone and that it will need a blast of dyna mite to break it from its present in gratitude aud forgetfulness. The Worker Deserves a Full Share. Then what about your present staff of employees? Are they to receive no financial share of your present suc cess? You know you have men work ing for you today who are simply In valuable. You know that if a rival firm should come aud offer certain men In your firm a third more than they are receiving you would be glad to advance their wages rather than lose them. You know that if hard times should come and business should run behind you would cut your em ployees’ wages down. And yet when your business Is prospering you give those employees no share of the pros perity. Now, ray brother, I want to ask you, is that square? Is that right? If you ask those men with whom you are associated to share your adversity when It comes, ought you not to let those same faithful men and women share your prosperity? But there Is another large class of people who need your help today and who have a right to claim It. They are not the old men and women nor the middle aged. They are not the people who for years have been living by your side. They are not the people with whom peibaps you are even ac quainted. But they are the boys and the girls or the young folks who are standing ujkiti the threshold of life with some fearful mental or physical or spiritual handicap. These young people have oa them the taint of a bad ancestral heritage, or by finan cial misfortune they are compelled to grow up amid vitiating social environ ments. Unless some one comes to their help they are doomed to make a failure out of life before they start. God expects you to help them. The Child Breadwinner. Here, for Instance, is a young boy who has a large number of brothers and sisters. He ts born In the beauti ful city of Philadelphia. But thou sands and hundreds of thousands of families ate there, and be Is only an atom In a great crowd. His father Is a hardworking, brave, noble man. But one day a scaffolding upon which he is working droitft, and almost im mediately the husband and father Is dead. Ills mangled corpse Is carried home to the little cottage. Now, how Is that young boy ten years of age to get uu education? Who Is to feed him and to educate him aud to clothe him? The mother? Well, If the mother is to be the breadwinner, who will stay at home and look after the children? Tan a weak mother do a man’s work and a woman’s work at the same time? Is it possible for her to be in two places at the same time? Unless some one comes to this woman’s help that boy will have no chance for suc cess. He will be seat forth to help earn his living almost before be la out of tbe nursery. He may become a newsboy. He may be pitilessly thrown among the Tile Influences of a street gutter. Then his moral character, In all probability, will be wrecked while be is yet only a little child. Who will be tbe Htephen Girard to reach out the helping hand to rescue that child? Have you ever visited Girard college in Philadelphia? It la one of the no blest Institution* In the world. It was founded by an old miser. Stephen other things being equal, environment Is tbe more potent. No one Is hopeless ly handicapped by his birth conditions.” In other words, with so many children In our foundling asylums who need your help, are you going to turn your back upon them and keep on growing more selfish aud mean as you are aging? For God’s sake, for your own sake as well as for the children’s sake, adopt a child Just as soon as you can blessing? May God teach us to give to others until at last we surrender all for God’s glory and man’s happiness. Give, as the light that flows out of heaven) Give, as the waves when their channel Is riven; Give, as the free air and aunehlne an given. Lavishly, utterly, Joyfully given— Not the waste drops of thy cup overflow ing, Not the faint spark* of thy hearth eURT glowing, ing. Give as he gave thee, who gave thee to give. [Copyright, 1907, by Lout* Ktopooh.) God never meant you to live without a p a ] e pud from the June rose the loving influence of some little child In your home. Take some child to your heart and throw your protecting arms about it. The Helping Hand. We are to help those standing upon the threshold of life. We must do more than that—we are to extend finan cial aid and spiritual help to those who seem to have made a complete failure of life. We should extend the helping hand to those whose sins and errors have flung them down, and to those who have lost faith In them selves, and to those whom the world has cast aside as useless and of.no account One of the hardest tasks In the world Is to save a man after his backbone of faith in himself has been broken. Men are often spoiled for life by too much censure. A man dees wrong; be commits an awful sin, and at once the world pitches into him. He Is driven out of the store, out of the church, out of respectable society. No matter where he goes, his sin dogs his footsteps. Now, my friends, I want to tell yon that no man has ever Buried In Box Above Ground. In the course of its researches Into the oddlHrs of other days, the Oass County Historical society has discov ered what is probably the oddest grave In Indiana. Believing that the devil was afraid of tar, John Connor, of Adams township, caused his body to be Interred above ground in a coffin filled with pitch. The grave was discovered by Dr. B. Z. Powell near Hoovers crossing. It la in a seldom frequented, Inacces sible spot, on a knoll covered with walnut trees. From one of the trees that grew here Connor hewed the cof fin In which he was subsequently burled. Notwithstanding he was at times Ir rational In his final Illness, the last wishes of Connor were carried out. He was hurled in a box above the ground, and after his body waa placed in the box the coffin was completely fallen bo low in sin but there is yet flu C( j w ith tar. It was one of Connor's some good In him. If we only go about It in the right way, we can win that man back to the paths of troth and of right Don’t growl a man into being bad, but love a man into being good. Lastly, we should help those who have lived their lives and are now In the Indian summer of their earthly existence, as well as the middle aged who have erred, and those who are young. We should help the aged and the cripples and the chronic Invalids and those whose Uvea will always be dependent upon others. You are to do this not only for those who are your kith and kin, but also for those who have no direct claim npon your benefaction. Pity th* Unfortunate. Now, why should you not help the beliefs that Satan abhorred tar and .would never go near It. To satisfy this belief, and because Connor had a firm conviction that there exists a personal devil, the relatives agreed to bury him as lie requested and faith fully kept the <hI<1 promise. They built a cut-stone tomb around the coffin later, five feet high and set in mortar. Connor was born hi 1780.—Logansport Dispatch to Indianapolis Star. Sour Stomach No appetit®, loss ot strength, nervotto ness, headache, constipation, bad breath, je -.eral debility, sour risings, and catarrh ‘.he stomach are ail due to indigestion. Kodol relieves ind.gestion. This new dfscov* ny represents the natural juices of diges tion as they exist in a healthy stomach* ’ombined v/ith the greatest known toniO md reconstructive properties. Kodol for Jyspepsia does not only relieve indigestion and dyspepsia, but this famous remedy heips all stomach troubles by cleansing, purifying, sweeteaing and strengthening the mucous membranes lining the stomach. Mr. S. S. Ball, of Ravenswood, W, V*.. s*jr*r— ’ i was troubled with sour stomach for twenty year*. <odol cured me and we are now using It ta Blit for baby.” Kodol Digests What You Eat Jottles only. 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Do yon not realize that ev- the most cruel, inhuman thing Imag ery dollar you give to your children inable, and U wag fast making an Idiot after you have given them a good edu 0 f me while I was waiting for th* tation in all probability will lessen question of extradition to be aettled." their mental and physical vitality? If yon want yonr boys and girls to be strong and brave and self reliant, then you roust teach them to labor as yon have labored. Are yon going to turn your backs upon God’s helpless •kk and aged and give your all to yonr children, so that they shall be- On all sides one gets tbe same testi mony. The prison fare In England Is disgracefully poor and insufficient; the prisoners are tortured by semi- starvation and maddened by what la practically solitary confinement No toriously the English prlsona are today the most shameful torture houses In come weak and helpless? Just ran Christendom, and the same people who over for me the list of the sons of wealthy men of yoor youth. How have they turned out handicapped with their fathers’ wealth? Would yon like yonr children to become as those eons of wealthy men are? Are yon going to take this nscs—lty ot a straggle away from yoor boys and girls? Are yon going to unman year children and take from them the racy and straggle which have i jm what yen are? Then, If ere not going to sqnandcr year it to so shriek over u beaten horse or ass allow their criminals to be starved and tor tured Into insanity.—London Vanity Vfclr. “’Europe’* Nur**ry of Vlo*.“ People may contend what they plceag about Paris, Berlin, Vienna and Rome, hot whatever villainy flourishes oat there, yoa may be qotte sure that there Is more of It In tills mammoth metrop- oBs, which Is called m the continent nursery ot Vaughan In Halt! 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