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iW'*- '■' rcl v - ■W&rwVyW*? ^ FACTS Calm age Sermon By Rev. Frank De Witt Talmatfe. D.D. LYDIA E. PINKHAM Ko other merlicine has been so successful in relieving the suffering of women or received so many gen uine testimonials as has Lydia E. Pinkhain’s Vegetable Compound. In every community you will tind women who have Ix-en restored to health by Lydia E. Pinkham’s Veg etable Comiround. Almost every one you meet has either been bene fited by it, or has friends who have. In the Pinkham laboratory at Lynn,Ma ss., any wo ma n any day may see the hies containing over one mil lion one hundred thousand letters from women seeking health, and here are the letters in which they, openly -tate over their own signa tures that they were cured by Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound has saved many women from surgical oi>erat ions. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is made from root - and herbs, without drugs, and is whole some and harmless. The reason why Lydia E. Pink ham’s Vegetable Compound is so successful is because it contains in gredients which act directly upon the feminine organism, restoring it to a healthy normal condition. Women who are suffering from those distressing ills peculiar t < > their sex should not lose sight of these facte f»r doubt the ability of Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound to restore their health. Kodol For Indigestion Our Guarantee Coupon If. after asine two-thirds of a St.oo bottle of Kodol, you can honestly say it has not bene- Bted you, we will refund your money. Try Kodol today on this guarantee. Fill out and sign the following, present it to the dealer at the 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 it, and we will refund your money. Town State Sign here. ’ t ut Thl« Out . Digests What YouEat And Makes the Stomach Sweet E. C. D«WITT 4fc CO., Chicago, I1L F© r Ml© by Oaffn©y Dry* C©> FINAL DISCHARGE. Notice is hereby given that on Saturday, April 23th, next, I will ap ply to Hon. J. B. Webster, Probate Judge, at his office at the court house in Gaffney, S. C-. at 10 a. m. for a final settlement and discharge as Executor of the estate of Alfred R. Turner, de ceased. All persons holding clalu.« against said estate must appear and present the same at or before that time or b© forever barred. And all persons indebted to said estate will please come forward and settle same at once. D. L. Allisrn, ISxgo u to? Pab. April 3, 10, 17 and 24, 1908! ATTTNTION, DEMOCRATS. The Democratic clubs of various precints will meet at their respective meeting places on Saturday, April 25th, at 3 o’clock p- m. for the purpose of reorganizing their clubs, and erect ing delegates to the comty conven tion which will convene at the court house on May 4th. Eaca club is en titled to one delegate for every twenty-live members, and one dele gate for a majority fraction thereot For example, a club which has thirty- seven members would only be entitl ed to one delegate, while if it has thirty-eight members it would be en titled to two delegates. Delegates to the county convention should be provided with certificates signed by the president! and secretary of the clubs from which they are lelected setting forth the fact that they were duly elected. By order of J. B. Bell, Co. Chairman. Mar. 27, Apr. 3, 10, 14. DR W. K. GUNTER I > K T I « T Office in Star Theatre Building, Phonk No w 20. Grown ©M fcittt© wetfe a New York, April 5.—In this sermon the preacher shows that the path of rectitude ahd duty is the only road to happiness, no matter how alluring oth er ways may seem to us at times. The text is Psalm xcvii, 11, “Light is sown for the righteous and gladness for the upright in heart.” This is an unfamiliar metaphor. We are not accustomed to thinking of light as of something that may be sown, as the farmer sows grain in the spring. Light comes from heaven to drive away the gloom of the night, to revive Industry, to start again the wheels of business life, to scatter the vultures, winged or human, that prey In the darkness. We are thankful to God for the light that he sends to us every dawn. Hut this conception that the psalmist utters, of light springing as a harvest from seed sown, is novel to us. It suggests the idea of the dark ness of sorrow or of trial, in which God's children must live at times, contrasting it with the encouraging as surance that light is sown for them which, though it lies for a time hidden and buried, will yet germinate and fruit to their gladness. This conception came to me with special force as I considered the topic. It had been raining for five or six days. It seemed as though the heav ens were a porous sponge being squeez ed of oceans of moisture. Then came the glorious sunrise. It came In great tidal waves of light. It flooded the earth, and it flooded the skies, and it sank into every pore of the flesh. Ob, It was glorious! God did not say. “Here is a little sunlight for you and a little sunlight for some one else,” as though he was afraid of wasting it, but he seemed to flood the earth with light in lavish abundance. lie seemed to say: “Here is light, oceans of light; light for the flowers of the fields and for the birds of the air and for man’s ental and physical existence. Take It bathe In it and grow in it and icathe it. Here is the sun as a stel lar furnace burning with light.” God gives many blessings, but he gives no blessing with richer abundance than when he rolls out for man the blessing of the sunlight. Then I turned and read the words of the text. “Light is sown for the righteous and gladness for the upright in heart.” Sunshine For All. God fulfills the promise of my text, In the first place, by the revelations he gives to his children to solve the intri cate and mysterious problems of na ture. God seems to say to man, “If you love me and will honor me, I will put the resources of the seas and of the valleys and of the hills and of the air at your disposal.” God gives liberally the blessings of nature to the race regardless of its moral conduct Summer and •winter, seed time and harvest, sunshine and shower, are for all. As Christ sa'd. “God causes his rain to fall on the just and on the un just” and is kind to the unthankful and the evil. Rut he has special bless ings for those who are described In this passage as the righteous and the upright in heart. He honors them with a more intimate knowledge of his ways, a closer acquaintance with na ture and a clearer view of the re sources of civilized life. “Well. I do not understand that” some one says to me. “If that is true, how can you account for the fact that some of our greatest Inventors did not believe In God or a hereafter or any supernatural power? The men who have explored for us the wonders of : nature have hot always been believers In revelation. Then, besides, some of the most immoral and depraved men have been the most prosperous. How J can your promise be according to fact?” Why, my brother, what you state and what I state are in perfect accord with God's revelation. Did you ever read the history of Paul’s journey to Home? . Why were all the passengers and the crew of the Alexandrian corn ship sav ed? Because the ship carried Paul, the servant of Christ God saved the crew to honor the presence of his evangelist. The mere presence of the good is a source of blessing for the indifferent and the bad. That Is a Kible truth taught again and again in the past centuries. Have you pondered well oyer Abraham's prayer when he plead- e|l for the salvation of doomed Sodom and Gomorrah? What did God mean when he gave those answers to the patriarch of old? Why. God simply meant this: “Abraham, if there are fif ty or twenty or even ten righteous per sons in the wicked cities of the plain I will save those two cities for the ten righteous' sake.” You can put but one interpretation upon that answer any way you look at it. God sometimes blesses those with whom bis children are compelled to live, as lie saved the passengers of tin* Alexandrian corn ship for Paul's sake. All BUssed Together. Now. I am n»>t asserting that all peo ple who live in Christian lands are Christians, but I am asserting that God blesses all people in Christian lands on account of the Christian peo ple who have by their presence In those lands led to their bearing the Christian name. If this fact is not true, how can you account for the fact that all the great scientific discoveries have originated among the so called Chrlatlan nations? There must be some rational- cause for this over whelming result. 1 honor Morse and Newton and Faraday and Hell and I-MIsm a::d Hewitt and all the other Illustrious invelitnrs of the centuries been mm* God ha* > nnbk 1 them to bring honor on the lands that could claim them as citizens. But God has fulfilled the blessing of my text in still another way. lie has made the home a scene of light. Wher ever his name is honored among the people of the earth be lias let great tidal waves of gladsome light roll through the homes of these people and fill the vestibules and the parlors and the sitting rooms and the bedrooms and the kitchens as among no other people on earth. If you are looking for the highest types of domestic peace and happiness, do you seek them in the pagan homes? Where do the heathen lands offer domestic refinement and purity like those found by our own do mestic fireside? Answer me, ye who call the cross a chimera. In Heathen Lands. Would you find those happy homes down by the burning ghats of India? There man looks upon woman as the slave of her husband. There in former days tlie widow had to ascend the fu neral pyre of her dead husband. There the little child was of such infinitesi mal value that the crocodiles used to fatten their young upon them, and there infanticide was so common that some mothers could not tell how many of their babies they had fed to the scaly, loathsome reptiles. Would you look for those happy homes in licen tious Rome, where marriage was con sidered a spider's web and where vir tue could not be found in the Roman lexicon and where some women had I>eon married and remarried so fre quently that they had difficulty in re membering their alliances? Would you find those happy homos among the African jungles, where cannibals ban queted upon the flesh of men or among i lie nomad tribes of North American Indians, where a woman was looked upon as a beast of burden? Tell me, in all the history of the world, If you can. where motherhood and childhood are so honored and the names of wife and sister and daughter and mother so re vered and where the domestic life is so happy as among the firesides of Christian homes. Oh. can you ever cease to thank God for the light that was sown for you under the domestic roof? Your mother was not a great woman as the world looks upon greatness. She was not a famous authoress, like George Eliot or Alice Cary or Eliza beth Stuart Phelps. She was not a great reformer, like Susan B. Anthony, or a great leader of armies, like \ke. Maid of Orleans. She was not an art ist. like Rosa Bonhcur. She was an ex pert in washing dishes, but she had never cultivated the magnificent art of decorating china as some of her daugh ters do. But from the very moment of her advent into the world she was an honored member of the community in which she lived. First the home of her mother was filled with sacred joy when she was born. Then during ail the days of her girlhood she was treat ed with the tenderest protecting care. Then your father came to court her. He was her lover to the last. Then her children arose to call her blessed. And when at last her poor tired body was laid to rest by her dead husband hundreds of her friends whom her life had blessed stood about her open grave td weep there. Tell me, where can you find such honor paid to womanhood except in a Christian land filled with Christian homes? Am I wrong when I state that the great tidal waves of gladsome light roll through the rooms of the Christian home? Has not God blessed the Christian nations with the highest type of domestic felicity? Christian Governments. But as the home is only one of the units of society we must study how God blesses the governments of the Christian lands as well as the individ ual firesides. Here we f|so find the great tidal waves of gladsome light flowing everywhither. Here we find the governments not run for a few. but for the many. Here the rulers are the servants of the people. Here the governments are “of the people and for the people and by the people.” This fact was not true in olden times, before the Christ love was acknowledg ed in the hearts of men. Then it was the governmental doctrine of the “di vine rights of kings.” Now it is the doctrine of the “divine rights of the people.” We look with amazement upon some of the stupendous buildings which the great potentates of the east have erect ed. Ah! “There were ffiants in those days,” giants so big that the earth will never produce their like again. And the trouble about those old giants was that they grew so great by op pressing the people whom they ruled. Did you know that the rulers of Egypt in order to builti the great canal which has made the present city of Cairo possible took thousands of men from their labors In the fields and forcibly drove them .o the ditches? And as a result of that conscription 20,000 men perished. Some people may find gran deur in that, but I only see brutal tyranny. What Egyptian traveler has not stud ied the famous citadel built by the great Saladin? It is a wonderful struc ture. But did you ever hear bow be built it? I will tell you. He built it by enslaving all the captured crusaders and compelling them to labor there for the rest of their lives. Aye, there were giants in those days, but thank God we did not live In them, for In all prob ability we should have had our lives crushed out of us by some tyrant as your foot might crush an insect in n country path. But now all the injus tices of the feudal system are gone. Now every man’s home is bis castle. Now man must respect the rights of man. One man’s liberty ends where the equal rights of another man begin And mark you this, the “divine rights of the peupie" were first taught to the world through the agency of those na tions which first acknowledged Christ as their Saviour and Lord. Am I wrong in declaring that great tidal waves of ghulsome light bless that na tion wbib .acknowledges God as its divine Ruler and Guide? The Church Spiro. Don't you remember that old picture jm had in your childhood reader? It flood at the top of the page and told the story of the shipwrecked sailor who was landed upon an unknown is laud. He thinks he is to be eaten b> the cannibals, but he climbs a tree and off in the distance he sees a churcl spire. Then he knows he is safe, fot wherever Christ is honored in any com munity there is safety. The best sure ty of personal rights is a church altar The best guarantee of social and pollti cal justice is a church spire. Thank God for what he has done for the American people as a nation! But we find the great tidal waves of God's gladsome light in the depths of human mercy as well as in divine. \Ye see it in the treatment of the sick and helpless. In uon-Christiuu countries when a man falls sick his friends run away from him as an injured animal is deserted by the herd. The husbands and the wives and the children today In the far east attack the aged and sick and helpless with sticks and stones and drive their relatives who are lepers out to the hillsides to die, and they care not how they starve and how they die. But after Christ came the reign of mercy and kindness be gan, and it has spread around the world. Now Hie strong protect the weak, and the mighty help the help less. No Hospitals In Babylon. Did you ever hear of any hospitals In old Babylon? Did you ever bear of any “ohl people’s homes'’ in ancient Memphis? Did you ever hear of any orphan asylums in cultivated Athens? Did you ever hear of any system of public schools in Ephesus where the little children of the poor man could be educated with the children of the rich man? Did you ever hear of “boards of charity” in those ancient capitals where poor widows with a lot of little children strapped to their backs could go and find food and cloth ing to help them in their days of want? History tells us of no such provision. But can you go today in any Christian community and not find these benefi cent institutions? The man who loves Christ must love and care for his help less children. The true Christian must be eyes for the blind, and ears for the deaf, and crutches for the lame, and clothing for the naked, and provide a home for the homeless. Does not Christ enunciate this fact when he says, “Inasmuch as ye have done it unto the least of these, ye have done it unto me?” You cannot become one of God’s disciples unless you join tie* great army of those who are trying to help those who are in want and who would suffer unless j’ou extend to them the hand of saving Christian love. But the great tidal waves of glad some light do not end with life. They roll their way through the darkness of the tomb Into the darkness beyond. Christ was the first to declare himself the resurrection and the life. Other teachers have taught the doctrine of a future life beyond the grave. But where was there ever taught such a beautiful idea of a place of eternal joy as that promise he gave us of the many mansions among \yhich he would go to prepare a place for us? [Copyright. 1908, by Louia Klopsch.] THE MYSTERY OF KUR0KI. Three to One For Rain. People have learned by experience to make allowance for error in the pre dictions of the weather bureau, but Professor Schuster thinks that the al lowances should be officially stated. Astronomers, it appears, are in the habit of giving the value of the “prob able error” when publishing their ob servations. But, although meteorology lends itself more readily than any oth er science to the evolution of devia tions from yie mean result, the weath er forecasters have not adopted the custom of stating the probable error. Professor Schuster looks forward to the time when weather forecasts will be accompanied by a statement of the odds that the prediction will be ful filled. Then perhaps we shall read In the weather column not simply “rain tomorrow,” but “three to one” or “nine to one for rain tomorrow.”—Exchange. Japan’s General Is Said to Be Sir Hec tor Macdonald. The statements in tbo Druce case with regard to the alleged trick burial of the fifth Duke of Portland are not without parallel, and there are sex erai mysteries of the kind which have never been cleared up. At the time of the Japanese success es in the late war It was verily believ ed by the natives of our eastern em pire that General Kuroki, that marvel ous Japanese commander, was no oth er than Sir Hector Macdonald. Certainly there are a large number of people alive who have never be lieved that tlie gallant general really is dead. In fact, there appeared in the Times a reward of $5,000 offered to anybody who had seen the dead body. There is also the fact that the general was once invited to go to Ja pan to train the Japanese army. He actually mentioned the offer to Lord Roberts. One the other hand, there is assured ly a vast deal of mystery concerning tlie personality of Kuroki. The Japa nese have acknowledged that there is much foreign blood in him, while an American war correspondent stated that he was a Dutchman. Still, in the eastern bazaars it was generally credited that he was “Fight ing Mac,” who had undergone a trick burial, and these rumors spread with that celerity which invariably bailies the western mind. Also it lias been stated that “Fight ing Mac” has been seen alive in Paris and that his coffin really contained nothing but stones. The general’s wid ow, however, has emphatically denied the allegation and has referred to many well known persons who knew her husband and saw his body. The Westminster coroner has stated that many mysterious burials take place and that doctors’ certificates have often been granted on grounds which certainly were not justifiable. According to present methods, there is no supervision over the certificates issued by medical men, and there are many instances in which pressure has been brought to bear on a doctor by the wealthy and influential to suppress the truth. There are also many instances in which crime has occurred when cer tificates of death have been given without any form of independent in quiry. It is notorious that there are many ways which cannot be specified here by which a body can be buried without registering the death at all and without any medical certificate be ing given. All the statements Just given are based upon the coroner’s experiences, and he has stated that in one case a doctor wanted to certify that a patient had died of heart disease. When an examination of the body was made, It revealed the woman with a dagger through the heart—a rather peculiar form of the complaint The fact to bo noted is that where wealthy and influential families are concerned there are sometimes ways and means of suppressing facts with regard to evidence of death.—London Tit-Bits. The Grand Canyon of the Colorado. Five times the Grand Canyon of the Colorado has been traversed by parties of white men. The last time was the past winter, when Charles S. Russell and E. R. Monett, mining prospectors, went through. They started on Sept 20 of last year and came out on Feb. 8 after many narrow escapes. The first trip through the canyon of which there is any record was that made by Major J. W. Powell in 18C9. The next was made by a surveying party of the Den ver, Colorado Canyon and Pacific Rail road company, led by Robert B. Stan ton. It started in May, 1889, and came oot in April, 1890. Two men went through in 189G and another two In 1897. 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