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A HOUSE WORK <- '4 ' Thousands of American women in our homes are daily sacrificing their lives to duty. In order to keep the home neat and pretty, the children well dressed and tidy, women overdo. A female weakness or displacement is often brought on and they suffer in silence, drifting along from bad to worst, knowing well that they ought to have hell) to overcome the pains and aches which daily make life a burden. It is to these faithful women that LYDIA E.PINKHAM’S VEGETABLE COMPOUND oomes as a boon and a blessing, as it did to Mrs. F. Ellsworth, of Mayville, N. Y., and to Mrs. W. P. Boyd, of Beaver Falls, Pa., who say: “I was not able to do my own work. Owing to the female trouble from which I Buffered. Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegr tableCompound helped me wonderfully, and I am bo well that I can do as big a day’s work as I ever did. I wish every tick woman would try it. FACTS FOR SICK WOMEN. For thirty years Lydia E. Pink- , ham’s Vegetable Compound, made from roots and herbs, has been the standard remedy for female ills. And has positively cured thousands oi women who have been troubled with displacements, inflammation, ulcera tion, fibroid tumors, irregularities, periodic pains, backache, that bear ing-down feeling, flatulency, indiges- tbn,dizziness,or nervous prostration. Why don’t you try it ? Mrs. Pinkliam invites all sick women to write her for 'advice. She has guided thousands to health. Address, Lynn, Mass. Kodol For Indigestion Oor Guarantee Coupon Calm age Sermon By Rev.« Frank De Witt Talmafe, D. D. nesses which that employer Is contiun- ally showing to the sick and the tron- ^ bled in the city, lie should tell bow his employer is one of the directors or the Youur Men’s Christian association land how his word is'as good as bis bond. But that is not whAt the aver age clerk does. Instead of singing the Upraises of the store he Is talking every- It. after using two-thirds of a ti.no bottle of Kodol. you can honestly say it has not bene- at®d yon, we will refund your money. Try Kodol today on this guarantee. Pill out and ■gn the following, present it to the dealer at tba time of purchase. If it fails to satisfy you return the bottle containing one-third of the medicine to the dealer from whom you bought U. end we will refund your money. Town State Sign here. • < «t ‘Dtia Oat • Digests WhatYouEat And Makes the Stomach Sweet S. C. DeWITT Ac CO., Cixlcano, IUL For sal* by Onflhay Dree C* [VK NOTICE OF ELECTION. An election 1# hereby ordered to be held la the town of Gaffney, 8. CL on Tuesday, March Srd, IMS, for the ferpoee of electing a mayor and one alderman from each of the six wards to aerin for two veara. The following are hereby appointed managers of wud election: L. D. Hippy. B. G. Roes and B. B. Reid, at Holt’s store. J. T. Humphries, W. A- Fort and Bam Hopper, at Harris’ store. J. V. Sarratt, John McKown and T. T. Green, at Johnson’s stables. ' T. R. Wilkins, 8. R- Thackston and 8. M. Scoggins, at City Hall. J. J. Gallagher, R. F. Spencer and B. M. Littlejohn, at Gallagher’s store. 0. W. Webster, A. J. Rogers and T. L. Hope, at G. W. Webster’s. Foils will open at 8 o’clock and dose at 4 p, m. AH persons voting in said election Wffl be required to register and said registration certificate can be obtain* #d by applying at the city hall any thne previous to one weeb before the election. , An election Is also ordered to be held at the same time and place for the purpose of electing one school trustee at large to serve for a term of four yaa». Also one trustee from serve for four years. Also one trustee nerve for four yean The same Lob Angelos, Cal., Feb. 23.—In his sermon In the familiar figure of a hus bandman the preacher shows us bow to secure the richest harvests by using oor opportunities for rendering loyal service to God and our fellow men. The text is llaggai. 1. 5, 6: “Consider your ways. Ye have sown much and bring in little.” A short time ago I had a most Inter esting conversation with no American missionary who had spent many years In China. He was telling me about the marvelous changes which have been Initiated In China since the Boxer up rising of 1900. I had asked him to tell me something about the Japanese peril and what would be the condition of the east If the mikado succeeded In dominating the whole Asiatic conti nent. Much to my surprise he answered: “Japan will never dominate the east. Japan will never dominate China. The great peril of the east la not to be found in Japan, but in China. Tbe oldest civilization on earth was In Chin*. All the civilization Japan has ever received has come from China. The dominance of the east will come not from military but from commer cial power, and the greatest merchants of all the east are the Chinamen. They can buy and sell all round the Japa nese. They have the keenest mercan tile brains of the eastern hemisphere. Furthermore, they have military gen ius. Lord Wolseley as well as General Grant testified that when he is rightly trained and bandied the Chinaman makes the greatest soldier that ever lived. He Is a man absolutely without nerves. He can exist upon, the dainty diet of a handful of rice. And he Is a man who knows no fear. “China lias been dead for 2.000years. But the giant of the east is now wak ing up. China has never been govern ed by a set of practical men, but only by a set of scholars, or of what Is called the literary class. For instance, four years ago in my province 10,000 students came up for examination upon the teachings and the legends of an cient China. From among those schol ars would be selected the future rulers of China. But now all that is done away. Two years ago by an edict from the throne the Chinese literary students were wiped from the face of the earth. When that little handful of foreigners marched from the seacoast up to Peking, the Chinese court was compelled to acknowledge that west ern civilization was a more potent civ ilisation than theirs. Now China Is be ing reorganized upon the lines of our western civilization. Her armies are being disciplined by German officers. Her students are being educated along technical lines. Her mines and re sources are being developed. Her opium curso in ten years wfll he com pletely wiped out by governmental power. And within thirty years a new China will arise which will not only dominate the east, but will be a mighty factor In dominating the world. And If we are going to Christianize China we must do It within the next thirty years, for after that it will be too late.” In Thirty Years. This was the testimony of a Chris tian missionary who knows China well. Now, if It is true, as I believe it is, It Indicates that the Chinese gov ernment has statesmanlike sagacity. They found that their method of edu cation did not produce good resalts— did not produce the results they ex pected from it, so they have changed It That is a wise course. Thinking over it, I wonder whether we, as a Christian community, ought not to do the same thing. Our methods are not producing* the effects we expected. Where is the fault? What Is the cause of tbe poor spiritual harvest? So this morning I want you to join with me in following the prophet’s advice. Let gp “consider our ways.” br Now, I think tbe fault Is not that you are unwilling to work for Christ You are like the people of my text who as husbandmen have scattered the seed far and wide. But at the time of harvest you have only gathered In a few miserable grains of wheat, all withered up and almost useless. Now. are you willing to let me diagnose the spiritual failings of your life? And remember that when I am preaching against your spiritual faults I am diag nosing my own spiritual shortcomings as well. Our scanty spiritual harvests,* In the first place, are due to oof lack of loy alty to God. We are notas q dash de voted heart and his service. where about his employer’s faults and weaknesses. And, though I may be making a very broad statement, I firm ly believe that I can enter any large atore In this city and hear enough grumbling and fault finding and mis representation by the clerks to damage that store seriously. The average clerk does not know what loyalty to his em ployer means, although he himself Is ennrely dependent for hls bread and butter on the salary be receives from that store. What Is true of the mercantile world is also true of a large percentage of the beneficiaries of charitable Institu tions. One of the loveliest ladles 1 ever knew was left a widow. With rare financial acumen she doubled and quadrupled her husband’s estate. Then with nearly $500,000 she erected and endowed an “old folks’ home.” Ttiere in the most beautiful climate of the world upon a site which Is unsurpassed in beauty in all southern California she has reared this Institution as a memorial to her husband. I suppose there would be 10.000 applicants to en ter that institution this year If Die re strictions did not bar all but Inhabit ants of California from entering. As it Is, the., waiting list runs up Into the hundreds. “Oh, If I could only become an Inmate of Hollenbeck home!” Is the pleading prayer of many who are In the twilight of life. Yet I have been told that, though all those who enter there go with a thanksgiving song upon their lips, yet as soon as some of t|D Inmates get thoroughly established In their rooms and walk for a little while amid the flowers in the gardens they begin to grumble about the meals and grumble about the superintendent and grumble about the people who are living in the rooms next to them. The average person. I care not in what de partment of life you may take him, does not know what loyalty means. A Good Notice. I think the best notice I ever saw^l hung upon the walls of a businesajls- tablishment had written on it words. The more I have read them over the more their honesty and far- reaching significance have appealed to me. (listen and ponder well: “If you work for a man. In heaven’s name work for him! If he pays you wages that supply you bread and Gutter, work for him, speak well of him, stand by him and stand by the Institu tion he represents. If put to a pinch, an ounce of loyalty Is worth a pound of cleverness. If you must vilify, con demn and eternally disparage, resign your position and when you are out side denounce to your heart’s content. But as long as you are part of the .in stitution do not condemq it If you do, you are loosening the'’ tendrils that hold you to that institution, and the first high wind that comes along you will Ije uprooted and blown away In the blizzard’s track, and probably you will never know why.” Woman, have you ever thought of that when as a servant girl you are talking against you r mistress ? Stenographer, have you ever thought of that when you are talking against your employer? Cierk, have you ever thought of that when you are talking against your employer? Beneficiary, have you ever thought of that when you are talking against your benefactor? Are you loyal to the men who feed you and put clothes cot your back and give you a home in which to live? If you are, you are the exception, for the great masses of peo ple cast mud at the windows of the homes in whlfh live the men and the women who support them and who should be esteemed their best friends. ip the Spiritual Life. What is tnie of the temporal life is emphatically true of the spiritual. Do you know whf you have so small a and thq t oi inai q«ittiruplejfie vi plaul ffiy acres ip to poac&tqBB^HNCSir tye old settlers arouiifl InBHRd at iAe. They said my frtjrtj^plw more In ten minutes thaff I’knew in ten years. They said I would rUln myself finan cially. But I went aheqd. I believed those agricultural reports froln Wash ington, and though It took me many years to develop a good orchard, yet as the result I,am today making each ■year five times tho amount of money my father made off the same land." The wheat crop was all right In its way, but that man’s father did not plant the seed that brought the maxl- 1s vki By order at tba spiritual barwst?® In tbe first place, tome of yoq talk |galnst your minister who is trying to b(|fld up your church. Thin you talk about some of the peo- plegwho are in tbe church. You com- plan) about youV superintendent or '^boot tbe president of your Ladles’ Aid or Missionary society. Then you find fault with the church people because they do not call upon you more. Then you grumble against God because he does not let you live In a better home. Then you get angry because your bus- band was not elected an elder. Then you find fault with tbe choir. Then you will begin to sulk because your little girl was not asked to lead the procession at the children’s day aerv- loe. Then In high glee you go around spreading the scandal of some domes tic fireside and call the members of that marital catastrophe “hypocrites” because they persist In coming to chord) In spite of their moral quencles. And it Is dlsparagemeigE here and fault finding there amj/ deprecia tion farther on. My bratfier, do you know what Is the matter with yon? Yea dqjwt know too first principles of God arfd loyalty to hls Snn- B&d loyalty to the honse- ;h. In on^r to reap a spir it what you need in the Is to get down on your get right with God and get God’s Institutions, no mat- they may be. If yon belong at family, then live for tbe f bis spiritual family and de your differences before f the outside world or hus- nurture these enmities in your own heart. First be loyal to his di vine institutions. Speak well of them. Do everything in yonr power to mak< this Inner life harmonious and lovingly happy. Oh, that we would do everything In our powefr to keep |the purity and tot honor of the Christian church from being derided and ridiculed by the men and tbe women of the outside! There is a beautiful story told that after the Prussians had defeated tbe Austrians In the battle of Sudowa a young Aus trian officer was found mortally wound ed, lying In a wet ditch. He begged the Prussians not to move him, but let him He there and die in peace. As physical dissolution was so near, the conquerors granted hls request But after death, when the Prussians lifted the dead body to carry It away for burial, they found concealed under the dead man’s clothes the standard of bis regiment Yes, toe dead hero did everything to protect the flag of hls country from being desecrated by the hands of his enemies. Bo may we do everything to protect our standards of the cross from the contempt of the world. May we so live that the men and the women of the outside world will say the church of God Is the dear est and best and the most loving place to Uye this bide of heaven. May we □ever open our Ups but In praise of God’s goodness and the goodness of the members of the household of faith. May we learn loyalty to Christ and loyalty to Christ’s followers. Ths Wrong Seed. The next great mistake In our spir itual sowing Is that we do not nse the right kind of seed. We do not use tbe spiritual seed that will bring forth the greatest harvest I am not asserting that some of us do not use good seed. But we do not use the one great seed which will always Insure us the great est returns for our spiritual sowing. Let me Illustrate my thought by com monplace comparisons. When 1 was a resident of Chicago, 1 passed two or three summers among the Michigan hills. While there I be came quite intimate with a gentleman who owned an enormous peach or chard. One day he told me the history of hls life: “I Inherited this land from my father. For years be was tog largest producer of wheat in thi# rs* gton. But after I grew up to M-a man I commenced to, be a dent of the reports department at Wt I studied the mum return from hls' Arm. The son did, and that Is toe whole story In a nutshell. Now, I am not here to state that your life is a useless life. You are not a liar or a thief or a drunkard or a libertine. Perhaps you give away hundreds of dollars annually to help the poor and the sick. But I ask you to consider whether you plant the best seed to obtain the spiritual harvests. Christian work means more than aim- ply giving bread to toe hungry, clothes to the naked and medicine to toe sick. Christian work emphatically means the seed planting of Jesus Christ in the hearts of your fellow men. If you will only bring toe divine personality of Christ In touch with your fenow men, be will lift men up out of, their sins and make men like unto himself. Oh, friend, from now let the chief pur pose of your life be to get the greatest spiritual harvest by seeking chiefly to plant toe spirit of Jesus Christ In toe hearts of your fellow men! “Conaider your ways. Ye have sown mach, bat bring In little.” Will you not ponder well upon hls promise? He tells us what he can do If we only plant him aright “And I, if I be lifted up, will draw all meu unto me.” Barrenneea of Soil. But I am not more Impressed with tbe poorness of the seed which we go forth to plant In our spiritual fields than I am with toe rockiness and bar renness of the soil In which we are dropping this seed. I care not bow good the seed may be, if toe soil Is barren there Is no ose in planting any seed there. For Instance, toe ?oil lin ing the banks of the river Nile Is the richest In the world. On It vou can grow two or three crops of wheat each year. But If you turn your back upon the siver Nile and travel five, ten miles over the Sahara sands you can have the land for nothing, for It la a bar ren laud. The water will run through tt as throoghj.Neve. Besides that, no water^canhedrawn so far awaj^ froth Nile to irrigate the desert, even though the sands would bold tbs wa ter. A soil for the farmer la worth just In proportion to what It can prodace, no more and no less. A few years ago I was traveling over the Dakota prai ries, and I stopped with tbe owner of a large wheat ranch. Tbe man’s farm extended for miles and miles away. If that fanner had been dependent upon the old fashioned ways of scattering the seed with hls hand and reaping with tbe sickle, he coaid jmt have placed under cultivation on^ftenth of hls farm. I asked him: “How can you fertilize such an immense area of agri cultural land? The winter snows come on so soon after harvest I should think you would not have the time.” The man laughed. “Why,” said be, “we never fertilize the Dakota wheat- fields. This Is practically virgin soil.” Then he led me to s deep hole bo was digging. It was r’oh, black soil, able to produce anything. “Whenever we feel,” said he, “thav we are exhausting flv) land of its strength, all that we. hrvp to do 1k to drive In the plow a i little deeper. That soil is just like that In richness sixty feet down.” Now you have some Idea of the necessity of hav- taff rich solMo produce a crop. A soil Is only valuable In proportion as It is productive. No sane farmer would try to turn an Arabian desert into a farm. The sand dune Is cheap merely becati?-.* It Is unproductive. Are you and 1, as spiritual seed planters, seeking the best sod for toe coming spiritual harvests? Ths Virgin Soil. Where is the human soil for richest spiritual results? It Is often lu virgin soil. David Livingstone opened the map of the world, and he saw it In Africa. Dr. Duff opened the map of the world, and he saw It In India. Fa ther Damien opened the map of the world, and he saw it In Molokai. Mar cus Whitman opened the map of the world, and he saw it among the Nez Perces Indians. William Booth opened the map of the world, and he saw It among the slums of the English cities. You and I open the map of the world, and we say—what? The people who need the gospel the most are the people who are in the most abject physical, mental and spiritual want The more a man and a woman are social outcasts the more toey need to be brought to Christ’s feet and the more they can be spiritually benefited. These offer the deepest soils for spiritual harvests. Are you planting the gospel seed where It will take the deepest root and will bring forth the greatest golden headed sheaves, or are we living simply upoj the spiritual farm lands already c vated by other Christian planters reapers? How are We to. ptynt Christ In the sinful hearts^ot 9br fellow* men? Cab we go to Qhrlst and get certain formu las, certain Bible texts or some of his divine promises and use these for toa' gospel seed piaffing? Can we use these promises asjtae husbandman in.times of old wain he took hjs bf? and filled It with seed awl than Wdjut across the7/fjplds' scathing tfth’aqlds Oh, ndpTbat is not'the or. •Dptrltnal harvest, lives of our fel- 'Ife which is In us. ave the divine life wlth- we cannot plant the Christ others. We must plant ourselves to* sinful lives of others or we can not plant at all. What did Jesus Christ mean when he said: “Ye are the light of t^r world. Ye are the salt of the earth?’ He meant that it is the divine light in us which shines forth and brings sinners ttf toe cross, not the divine light a thousand pilles away. Have yon that divine light In yon? How often do you pray to God and read your Bible and commune with him? When you talk, when you live, do men see your face aflame with cossel light, as was Moses’ face when he stood in the presence of the Lord? If your life not filled with the <Ji\ino life, is thore any ’><»'- ter time than no* • to open that life s > that It will he overflowing with his glory? Will you not surrender your life to him so that you can become the light of the world? [Copyright, ISHXi, by. Louis Klopsch.] Women Who Wear WeD* It is astonishing how great a ehaogs a few years of married life often make in the appearance and disposition of many women. The freshness, tba charm, the brilliance vanish like the bloom from a peach which Is rudely handled. The matron Is only a dim shadow, a faint eeho of the charming maiden. There are two reasons for this change, Ignorance and neglect. Few young women appreciate the shock to the system through the change which comes with marriage and motherhood. Many neglect to deal with the unpleasant pelvic drains and weak nesses which too often come with mar riage and motherhood, not understanding that this secret drain is robbing the cheek of its freshness and the form of its fairness. As sorely as the general health suffers when there U ddHqgementof the health of the delicate womaM^ngans, so surely whefTth^e organs ^^established in health the rqce aruhiJrha^Ohtce witness to tbe Tact In rbaetred comettbemh Nearly O-tOll’ion women have found health and happiness in the use of Dr. Pierce’s Fa vorite Prescription. It makes weak wom en strong and sick women well Ingredi ents on label—contains no alcohol or harmful habit-forming drugs. Made wholly of those native, American, medic inal roots most highly recommended by leading medical authorities of all the sev eral schools of practice for the core of woman’s peculiar ailments. For nursing mothers,or for those brohea- dovm In health by too frequent bearing ef * K, Niren, also for the expectant mothers, prepare too system for the coming of —y and making its advent easy and Jmost painless, there is no medicins quite ,.o good as "Favorite Prescription.* It can do no harm in any condition of the system. It is a most potent Invigorating tonic and strengthening nervine nicely adapted to woman’s delicate system by a physician o! la rye experience in the treat ment of womau’s peculiar ailments. Dr. Plerco may be consulted by letter K ce of charge. Address Dr. R. V. Pierce, ivallds’ Hotel and Surgical Institute Buffalo, N. Y. ' Ale No Bar. Kvoryta* In tenth to Bit O’S 91 Middle Youth GhUdrao, AD la tt Only a IN unable to pma eon tonn of Mdnay OB. ycupnacof os m i oal wood and toi Bring at ttlf BL 0* ttjra: -My unable to dally wfc Doan’a For aula by all aanta. Fm Now Yttk, Mto 04 Remember the take No other. Price N OB, tor the United •kin •load If roar Mood la aaaad. hot or ton have Mood If you pimply akin, hone vato* d mt Mood or Dtoato R 1 ****! an aortthaaL and the blood la made Druggists or by sz- (B. B. B.) and Pains free flood Balm Go.. At- B. la capedaUy ad vised for ehyoBie. dodp eeotsd eases, oa It oners after all alas fcfln Sold to Gaffney. f\ C., by Cherokee Drug C*<. i April 8. U f. 1 year. ht He Gaffney Drug Ool has reoerllv added an I' the latest to^nttoa tor teeting the human 0700,1 to their Optical Cepaat meat, and Ifc tho next thirty days will egamton op toot yOu r eyes free of oN ehttfoa. Fri. tt ITCH eared to 80 mtoatea hr Wool- ford’s Sanitary Lotion. Never folia. . •old Bye Urns On. NOTICE OF LAND SALE. Notice la hereby given that by vir tue of a power of attorney executed to me by W. J. Maness on February 12th, 1908, and recorded in office of Clerk of Court tor Cherokee county, and In order to satisfy the amounts due m>on toe mortgages therein mew- tioned and other expenses thereto re ferred to, l, the undersigned as ar% torney in fact tor the said W. J. Mar ness and for the purpose stated to said power of attorney, will, durtof the legal hours for sales on salsa- day, Monday, March 2nd, 1908, sell at public auction to the highest biddor the following property, to-wit: All those seven pieces, Aarcels or lots of land lying, being And situate about one mile South of the town of Gaffney, designated on plat made by R. O. Sams, surveyor, to the dlrisktt of the lands for sale in the cose of J. C. Jefferies against Mrs. M. H. Jsf- feries, et al, as follows: Lots No* 10, 11 and 12, Bloch “D.” fronting 88 feet each on Indian Hill street aai running 186 feet each to a fifteen foot alley, containing .272 of an acre each. Lot No. 8, Block “U” fronting 68 feet on Lead Mine street and running back 200 feet to a fifteen foot alley, containing .808 at an aero. Lot No. 8, Block “O, fronting 88 fool on rood leading from Union rood to Limestone College, and running batti with lots Nos. 7 and 9 170 toot to too fifteen toot alley, containing .288 of an acre. Lota Noa. 2 apd 8, Bloch “P,” fronting u feet each an road shore mentioned, end naming back 168 and 166 feet to line of lot No. d, some block, being 87 feet wide eaah on book line, containing M at m acre each. For a better deeeription of oeM lots as to coursaa and distances re ference is berstar made to the plot of same recorded to Deed Book M I, M pages 268 end 888: the same hetop the property deeded to me by J. Bb Jefferies, Clerk of Court, by dead re corded to Deed Booh “G,” page 1U. Terms of sale: One-half cash, end tiie balance on a credit of twelre months with totereat at sight fat cent par annam, secared by mart gage of the premises. Purchaser to pey for papers and recording, nod -win receive a fee simple title wtth dower renounced. J. BB JBFFBRIBB, As Atty. to Fsct tor W. J. ~ Feb. 18, 20 and 27. EXECUTOR’S NOTICE. All person holding claims the estate of Robert H. Morn, de ceased, ore hereby notified to'prsesnt th same, duly attested, to etther the undersigned executors, sad el peraone Indebted to sold Potato era requested to make payment to said ‘ is wtthoot delay. Solon A. Moss, Thoo. I* Mo«» l estate Robert H. MoM. dn Blacksburg, Feb. 25 tt 8- O* R. r. D. ' ““"PACKER’S HAIR BALSAM CImom tnd tpaoWM Wm hall. PromotM a lax-srian, growth. Never Vhiis to He.to re Ongr Hair to <«s Temthital Cotor. Cure, r ..p c -r. t" it hair falling, iJOPjand Dewitt’s o setae FOIEYSHtWEMIAR Baras BoMai Prevents Pncumooie BANNER 8A LV1 the most hoallnn salve in the woHA Iter chlltir**4 •at*, mura, tit rite* THE ^ BILIOUS! ms.