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' • 'W' / i ( FOUR GIRLS Restored to Health by Lydia E. Pink 11 am’s Vegetable Compound. A«ad What Thmy day. Mira Lillian Ross, 5.10 East 84th Street, New York, writes: “Lydia E. Pinlyhani’s Vegeta ble Compound over came irregularities, pe riodic suffering, and nervous headaches, after everything else had failed to help me, and I feel it a duty to let others know of it.” KatharineCraig.'-’lto Lafayette St., Denver, Col., writes: “Thanks to Lydia E. Pinkham’s VegetableCompound I am well, aftersuffering for months from ner vous prostration.” Miss Marie Stoltz- man, of Laurel, la., writes: “ I was in a run down rond i tion and su f- fered fronjsuppression, indigestion, and poor circulation. Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound made me well and strong.” Miss Ellen M. Olson, of 417 N. East St., Ke- wanee, 111., says: " Ly- diaE.Pinkham’sV ege table Compound cured me of baekaehe, side ache, and established my periods, after the best local doctors had failed to help me.” FACTS FOR SICK WOMEN. For thirty years Lydia E. Pink- baufs Vegetable C< _ \ matle from roots and herbs, has been the standard remedy for female ills, and has positively cured thousandsof women who have been troubled with displacements, inflammation, ulee ra tion. fibroid tumors, irregularities, periodic pains, backache, that tear ing-down feeling, flatulency, indiges- tion,dizziness,ornervou3 prostration. Why don’t you try it? Mrs. Pink ham invites all sick women to write her for advice. She has guided thousands to health. Address, Lynn, Mass. Kennedy’s Laxative Cough Syrup Relieves Colds by working them out of the system through a copious and healthy action of the bowels. Relieves coughs by cleansing the mucous membranes of the throat, chest and bronchial tubes. "As pleasant to the taste as Maple Sugar” Children Like It* For BACKACHE- WEAK KIDNEYS Try Do Witt's Kidney and Bladder Pills Sure and Safi Fo r Mil by Gaffney Drw« C* NOTICE TO CREDITORS OF THE W. C- CARPENTER CO- IN RE RECEIVERSHIP OF SAID CO- State of South Carolina, County of Cherokee. Notice 1b hereby given, that in pur suance of an order of Circuit Judge D. H. Hydrlck, of date April 11th, 1908, appointing a receiver for the W. C. Carpenter Co., of Gaffney, S. C., all creditors of the said W. C. Car penter Co. are required to file and prove their claims against the said company, before me at my office in Gaffney, S. C., within sixty (60) days from the date of said order, or on or before June 11th, 1908. After the said sixty (60) days have elapsed, a reference on said claim wm be held by me at my office in Gaffney, S. C., a notice of which will be sent to each creditor who has filed a claim or claims. At said reference the allowance of the claim of any creditor may be con tested by any other creditor, provided due notice thereof be first given to the creditor whose claim is to be con tested. J. Eb. Jefferies, Cl'k. C. C. Pi’s. Gaffney, S. C., April 13th, 1908. April 13. 20, .7, May 4. Calm age Sermon By Rev. Frank De Witt Ttlmitfe, D. D. NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR CHARTER. Notice is hereby given that the un dersigned will make application to the secretary of State for the State of South Carolina on the 28th day of May, 1908. at 12 o’clock- M., at his of fice. in the cnpitol, at Columbia, Sc sth Carolina, to grant a charter for a railway company to be known as Sowth and Western Railroad Com pany. the line of railroad of which company shall extend from the city of Spartanburg. South Carolina, to a point on the boundry line, between the States of North Carolina and South Carolina, at or near a point one mile south of Island ford ferry of Broad river, through the counties of Spartanburg and Cherokee. South Carolina, the townships of Spartan burg and Cherokee, and the city of Spartanburg, in Spartanburg county, and the township of Morgan, in Chero kee county, by the most feasible route, the total length of which road shall be about twenty miles, which corporation, if said charter Is granted, will have the power to condemn lands for rights of way. Witness our hands this 17th day of April. A. D.. 1908. Ralph K. Carson, J. Norment Powell, John B. Cleveland. April 24 to May 15, Fri. 4t. WHEN IN A HURRY BEND TO THE LEDGER FOR YOUR JOB PRINT! HO. New York, April 26.—In this sermon the preacher exalts love as the highest of the Christian graces. Dr. Talmage has resigned his pastorate in Los An geles, feeling the need of complete rest, and has gone to Europe, where he will remain six months. He will compose no sermons during his absence. The text of this farewell sermon is takfen from I Corinthians xiii, 13, “And the greatest of these is love” (R. V.). Talking with a friend before setting out on my European journey. I re ferred to my long cherished desire to visit the famous canyon of Arizona that I might study it and describe it to my eas(prn friends. “It caunot be done,” said my friend. “No living man could describe the grandeur and maj esty of that wonderful scene. Just be fore I went there I was told that a man a ^ reached the brink of that aw ful chasm, and as he looked across it and down into its depths and up into the sky he dropped upon his knees and cried: “O God. how infinitely great art thou! i never realized until my e3’es beheld it this wonderful manifes tation of thy handiwork!’ All that you can do when you visit the Grand can yon is to be overwhelmed with the im mensity of its conception. It is greater, far greater, than your wildest imagina tion could ever conceive.’’ Well. 1 said to myself if that is true there is one fact I will learn from the Grand canyon. That will be its su perlativeness as a basis for compari son. There are things that are above and beyond utterance. Paul heard things when he was caught up to heav en that he said were unspeakable, and on another occasion, trying to describe the things God had prepared for them that love him, lie said that eye bad not seen nor ear heard, neither had it entered into the heart of man, and John lu Patinos fell down as one dead. When I read of these strange incidents I shall always think of the overwhelm ing impression which one gets from his first view of the Grand Canyon of Ari- sona. It Is a species of measuring rule by which I estimate other impressions. It is this kind of culminating compari son that Paul uses in my text. The Celestial Music. In the first plaeff, Paul leads us into the celestial choir lofts of heaven. He gathers before us the sweet voiced singers who once sang the song of the Nativity above Bethlehem of Judea. He leads those white winged messen gers of the sky to sing until their unit ed choruses roll a!tout us in great tidal waves of harmony. Some of us have heard the most famous songstresses ou earth lift up their voices in praise. But never will our ears bear melodies like those celestial songs until at last as redeemed spiri's we ourselves are sing ing the song of Moses and the Lamb before the great white throne of heav en. Then after Paul has in imagina tion led us up through the boulevards of gold, down past the great white man sions of the skies, and has overwhelmed us with the beauty and pathos and grandeur of the inspiring oratorios of the celestial city lie says to us: “That singing is the most beautiful singing of all the ages. From human lips and throat could never come music so en chanting. But. though we could sing like that, our song would be empty and meaningless and discordant if it had not in it that one thrilling note of love. Though I speak with the tongue of an gels and have not love. 1 am become as sounding brass or a tinkling cym- baL It is love that gives celestial mu sic its sweetness.” Then Paul has us sit at the feet of Hebrew teachers like Gamaliel and Hillel. He introduces to us the proph ets of old. Ho brings before us the wise men or the magi of the east. He solves for us all the knotty social prob lems of the day and leads us down amid the temples of old Egypt and amid the wonders of Nineveh and Babylon and Rome and Athens. Then he shows us the giants of faith as Ti tans changing the topographical con struction of the earth. Then after he has piled learning upon wisdom and Intellectuality upon intellectuality and superlative upon superlative and made man omniscient as well as omnipotent he utters these words: “And if I have the gift of prophecy and know ail mys teries and all knowledge and If I have all faith so as to move mountains, but have not love. I am nothing.” Ah, yes; love is greater than all the knowledge i contained within the walls of an Alex andrian library Love is greater than the wisdom of King Solomon. Love is greater than the prophetic eye which ■ can look through the black curtain ! which separates the present and the events that will happen millions of years hence. I?o' e is greater than the strength of the everlasting hills. Love is greater than the highest triumphs of i art For If we have not love, no mat ter how great our intellectuality may be. we are as n< thing. Aye, we are worse than nothing. Is not Paul’s sec ond comparison again approaching the culminating superlative? Love the Greatest of AIL Then, as a guide leads us higher and : higher over a mountain range and we climb from peak to peck until at last we stand upon the topmost pinnacle overlooking all monntains, rising out of material into moral elevation, Panl •ays: “Love is more than this. Though yon labor for others and seem to spend all yonr life In the service of yoor fel low men. though you become a pauper for their sake and go to the martyr’s stake, if you do not love you^ fellow men. In God’s sight all your deeds of self i*&crifice will go for naught. Yes. yes! How superlative does overtop su perlative when Paul Is elaborating for us the power and the necessity of love. Now let us ask ourselves why love Is so essential in God’s sight and why love should be the predominant pas sion of every human heart. Now. what is love? “Love," says the lexicographer, “is a feeling of strong attachment to another. It is pre-emi nent kindness or devotion to another. It is affection. It is tenderness. It is the bond \Fhich binds mother to child aud husband to wife and brother to sis ter and friend to friend.” That is the definition which I have abridged from different dictionaries. That definition means this: “Love is the strange pow er born in the human heart, which, like a long ar n, roaches out and draws an other life Into that heart and makes the joy aud the happiness of that other life more Important than the joy and the happiness of Its own life." In oth er words, “love is the power which will make a human tree graft upon It self other human branches, and then that original human tree shall live sim ply for the purpose of bearing luscious fruit for the benefit of some other hu man life.” In other words, true love finds its happiness In the benefits which that human life can bring to other lives rather than for the benefits of Its own selfish life. Th# Grafting of Trees. “How do you graft one tree on an other?” I asked an old California hor ticulturist. “Well,” he answered, “that depends upon the tree you intend to graft. If I were going to graft a lemon tree upon an orange tree”/— “What!” I interrupted. “Are nearly all our lem on trees grafted upon the orange tree?” “Yes,” he answered; “nearly all. If I were going to graft a lemon tree upon an orange tree, I would go out to my orchard in springtime and cut a slender branch off my lemon tree. From this branch I would cut the healthiest bud. making the grafting bud about three- quarters of an inch long. Then I would cut the bark of an orange tree about two years old and gently press the lemon bud L.to the bark. Then I would hermetically seal the woods together witli wax. Then, when the lemon bud took root and got to growing fully, I would cut off the orange tree Just above the lemon bud, so that all the strength of the trunk of the orange tree would be conserved to develop the lem on branch and the lemon fruit as it ought.” Ah, yes, I said to myself while my friend was talking; the orange tree has its branches cut off so its trunk can produce sustenance for the lemon branches. And that is love. We are the human tree and will have the branches of our own selfish desires amputated in order that we may bear fruit in the lives of our fellow men. That is the whole definition of love In a nutshell. Tell me, friend. Is your life a life of love? Are you the human orange tree with the lemon buds grafted into your bark? Have you had the selfish limbs of your own life cut off? Are you standing like the trunk of the orange tree in the center of the multitudinous orchards of the world with your own name forgotten and obliterated that the honor and the glory of Christ may shine in the lives of your dear ones? Are you driving your roots farther aud farther into the ground in order to gather up the rich nourishment of the soil to nourish and feed hundreds of buds which have been grafted-on your foundations? If you are. then you have the priceless characteristics which God honors above all other virtues; then you have love—purified love, tri umphant love, divine love; then you are like the Lord God Almighty him self, for God is love and love is God. Lire’s First Duty. Now, if the whole essence of love is to put the joys aud the blessings and the happiness of others above all self ish bappiness and joys and blessings, what is then in its crudest form the first duty of love? ’ First, never to give another pain; never do anything which will bring the tear to the eye or the quiver to the lip or the sob to the aching heart It does not take much to wound the sensibilities of an other. And. if your first duty of life is to learu not to hurt yourself, so the first duty of love should be never to hurt or to wound the feelings of an other. Now, it was no easy matter to learn how not to do yourself a physical dam age when you were young. It was only by painful experience that those laws of caution were mastered. For instance, when you were a boy you had a great habit of balancing upon the chair In the dining room. Your father again and again warned yon to stop. He told you that you would hurt yourself. But there was a fascination in making that chair tip back. You felt like a trapeze performer in mid air. But one day you lost your balance and fell backward and struck your head against the mantelpiece. The cut was deep, the blood flowed, and you | have a scar upon your head to this ; daj’. Then after that you never bal- j anted upon a chair, because you knew your father was right. Or take that* old habit you had of sliding down the banisters of the staircase. It was great fun until your hand slipped and you fell stunned upon the floor below. Or do you remember that toy cannon? You asked your mother if you could have one, aud she said you were too young, but you thought differently, and you went and bought one on the sly. When you .were about to play Bunker Hill the cannon went off at the wrong time, and instead of knocking down the toy soldiers your face re ceived the charge, and your father and mother had to sit for hours dig- (Ing the powder out Aye, It was not easy to learn the lesson of physical caution. You learned it by suffering and pain; you learned it by tearful sorrow. And now you know that fire burns and a sharp knife cuts and a tumble will hurt. So you guard your body in the light of warning experi ences. Mental Sufferings. But the physical sufferings are never as bad as the mental. The accidental blow from the baseball that prostrated yon on the field and gave you a head ache for days never hurt jHu as did the cruel word, the harsh criticism, the nnklnd misrepresentation, of the man whom you had trusted as a friend. You all know what physical pain Is. Some of you have been under the tor ture of the surgeon’s knife; but, though your physical pains have been great, I ask you if any pain has been so ex cruciating as that inflicted by one whom you have loved as a brother and who has brutally turned against you as Brutus struck his patron Caesar. Now, my friends, If you have suffered so much from the attacks of those whom you love, beware how you give pain to others, whether friends or stran gers. If you have suffered so grievous ly from the harsh words, the uncharita ble insinuations, the malevolent un truths of those who have treacherously turned against you without cause, learn the lesson and look well to your own conduct, lest you sin against another. The law of love works both ways. To deserve God’s love we must graft the lives of others into our lives and make their sufferings our sufferings and their heartaches our heartaches. Brother, do not speak that harsh word. You have no idea how deep its probe cuts. Sister, do not make that bitter interpretation. You think the person against whom you speak it will not hear about it He will; he will. He will bear about it in its meanest and most malignant form. I know your brother may have wronged you; but, re member, the injustices which he has done you can never justify the angry thoughts you have against him. Love puts the sufferings of yonr enemy aboveyour sufferings and the heartaches of those against whom you are utter ing those stinging words above your own heartaches. “Love suffereth long and is kind, is not easily provoked, thiuketh no evil, beareth all things, be- lieveth all things, hopeth all things, en- dureth all things.” But we do not always want to be lit tle children in the kindergarten of love. We do not always wish to be spiritual babies learning the negative side of the gospel, which tells us “Don’t to this” and “Don’t do that” and “Don’t do the other thing.” We should grow in grace and grow in spiritual power and learn to utter some other prayer than the little petition— Now I lay me down to sleep I pray the Lord my soul to keep— which we learned years ago at our mothers’ knees. And so the next great step in the way of love is, “Never give pain, physical or mental, to another.” The second is like unto the first, only a little higher In spiritual life. When we love our neighbors we must rejoice with them in their days of prosperity. As their sorrows should be our sor rows, so their temporal and spiritual triumphs should be our temporal and spiritual triumphs. RUeir lives as trees are grafted upon us.^Thon we, as the old orange trunk supporting them, should rejoice at th^ gathering of their fruits just as much as though the au tumnal nuggets of gold were taken from our own branches. Do you grasp the farreuchiug significance of my text? “And the greatest of these is love.” The more others prosper the more we should rejoice. Jealous of Others’ Success. But, strange to say, some evil minded cynics look upon the success and the prosperity of other people as an Insult to themselves. They feel that if they cannot have all the honors and ail the praises of success they do not want any one else to have those honors. And not only that, but by sneers they will do all in tbeir power to undermine an other’s work. Here, for instance, la a college president. For years and ye- .1 he is the official head of the institution. For years and years be molds the characters of the boys and the girls under him. He has the devoted fol lowing of the officers and teachers, hot when his work is done be sometimes seems to be angry because those same officers and teachers give the same loyalty to his successor as they accord ed to him and because the college is making a greater success after he leaves the institution. Why should not that old college president be happy at the success of his successor? Why should not the minister be happy when be hears that the man who follows him In his pulpit is more beloved and is doing a greater work than be was privileged to do?* But you cannot rejoice with a man in his days of prosperity unless at the same time you are willing to sympa thize with him in the days of his sor row. And yon cannot truly sympathize with a friend In his time of trial unless at the same time you tire willing to do I everything In your power to overcome his meutal, moral aud spiritual weak- ! nesses and help him to rectify the mis- | takes he has made. Have you been willing to do that? Have you such an overwhelming love of mankind in your heait that you will do everything and anything to help your brother out of his present difficulties? Friend, could there be a better mes sage for us to dwell upon this morning than this of love? “Ob.” I said, “If I can only get my people to feel and practice this divine love all will be well.” Will you let this divine grace •radicate all bate aud bitterness from yonr heart? Will you go today to the man against whom you have a grudge and take him by the hand and lay, “Let os quit our enmities for Chriafa sake.” Indeed, It is not so hard for some of us to say that, for Christ, whom we love and whose example we are to follow, has taught us to pray, “Forgive us our trespasses as we for give those who have trespassed against ns.” Oh. for a baptism of divine love! “And the greatest of these is love.” There is a star that beams on earth With tender, lovely ray, That lights the path ot generous worth And speaks a brighter day. It is friendship. There Is a tie, a golden chain. That binds with stronger hand Than Iron shackles of the cell Or all the arts of man. It is love. There is a gem, a pearl of worth, As lasting as the skies, More dazzling than the gems of earth; Its splendor never dies. It is truth. Three angel spirits—evermore They guard our thorny way. And those who follow where they lead Can never go astray. For God hath given them alike To childhood and to youth, And age is mellowed by the touch Of friendship, lovo and truth. [Copyright, 1908, by Louis Klopsch.] The Bielitz Ghost. “Your place, sir, will never be filled,” said a reporter to Heinrich Conried, the retiring director of the Metropoli tan Opera House of New York. Mr. Conried shook his bead and smiled. “There was a ghost,” he said—"a ghost In Bielitz, my native Bielitz. I will tell you of him. “The ghost haunted the inn. Nobody minded him, for in Silesia he was well known, but an Englishman stopped at the inn one night in the season, and to him the ghost had not been explained. “So the next morning the English man came down to breakfast pale, bloodshot and irritable. “ ‘Landlord,’ he said, ‘tell me, is not my room haunted?’ “ ‘Why, yes,’ said the landlord. ‘Didn’t you know?’ “ ‘Of course I did not know! What do you mean, sir, by putting me in a haunted room?’ the Englishman stormed. “ ‘But the old fellow Is quite harm less,’ said the landlord reassuringly. “ The old fellow?’ " ‘Yes,’ said the landlord—‘the ghost, the old fellow who built up the busi ness. He built it up, you know, and died, and now he can’t rest easy be cause it goes ou as well as ever it did without him.’ ’’—Washington Star. Vanderbilt’s Darning Needle. Commenting on the thrifty habits of the late Commodore Vanderbilt, a cor respondent of the New York Tribune tells a story which he says “goes back more than forty years, but may be told again on that account” For years Mr. Vanderbilt went to Saratoga every year and spent hours every day on the Congress Hall porch smoking. “My brother,” says the story teller, “who lived near the springs, loved horses and used to drive to tye village and go to the Congress and listen to the Van derbilt horse talk. One day he noticed a big darning needle stuck through the lapel of the great railroad man’s coat and In wondering what it was there for missed much of the conversation, Its use developed when the Vanderbilt cigar became too short to be held by the fingers with comfort or safety to the smoker. Then the stump was speared by the needle and held for far ther incineration. Aided by the darn ing needle, the cigar was smoked to the bitter—to him sweet—end. And he was not the least bit ashamed to let people see him make use of the darn ing needle. Dangling Near Death. An Italian smuggler named Predonl, accompanied by his daughter Rose, aged eighteen, after having completed purchases in Switzerland of contra band goods, set oat to cross the Fraele pass (7.200 feet high), in Italy. The two were approaching the summit of the pass when they were overtaken by a thick mist, in which they lost their way. They roped themselves together. Suddenly Predonl, who was leading, fell over a precipice, jerking bis daugh ter off her feet. By means of her Ice ax Rose stopped herself from being dragged over the precipice where her father was dangling, suspended In mid air. Predonl could not reach the pre cipitous side of the slope to lessen the strain on the rope, and as their cries for help remained unanswered for an hoar he begged his daughter to cut the rope and save herself, but this she re fused to do. Another half hour passed, and as the mist cleared Rose saw three other smugglers climbing the raonn- tain. Her cries were heard, and the smugglers rescued Predonl and bis brave daughter, who lost her senses on being untied and was carried down the mountain.—London Chronicle. DOCTORS MISTAKES Are said often to be buried six feet undei ground. But many times women call on their family physicians, suffering, as they imagine, quo from dyspepsia, another from heart disease, another from liver or kid ney disease, another from nervous pros tration, another with pain here and there, and in this way they present alike to themselves and their easy-going or over busy doctor, separate diseases, for which he, assuming them to be such, prescribes his pills and potions. In reality, they are •11 only symptoms caused by some uterine disease. The'ph^ician,Ignorant of the cause of suffertngVWps uphisjreatment until large bills are made. Th^suffering patient gets no betteaJftMV^hiL^ktbe wrong treatment, but probably cine likft Or. Eteratfa Favor rintion. direefed to the cause would EluTVeiv removed the disease, there by dispelling all inose distressing; 1 symp- toms, and instituting comfort instead of prolonged misery, ft has been well said, that “a disease known is half cured." . Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription is a scientific medicine, carefully devised by an experienced and skillful physician, and adapted to woman’s delicate system. It is made of native American medicinal roots and Is perfectly harmless In Its effects in unu con tiisficm. VAummnmirrmrV'Tno system. As a inverfu! invigorating tonic "Fa- i ” imparts s p° v vorite Prescription” Imparts strength to the whole system and to the organs dis tinctly feminine in particular. For over worked, "worn-out,” run-down," debili tated teachers, milliners, dressmakers, seamstresses, "shop-girls,” house-keepers, nursingmothers, and feeble women gen erally, Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription is the greatest earthly boon, being an- equaled as an appetizing cordial and re storative tonic. As a soothing and strengthening nerv ine "Favorite Proscription” is nnequaled and is invaluable in allaying and sub duing nervous excitability, Irritability, nervous exhaustion, nervous prostration, neuralgia, hysteria, spasms. SL Vitus’s dance, and other distressing, nervona symptoms commonly attendant upon functional and organic disease of the uterus. It induces refreshing sleep and relieves mental anxiety and despondency. Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets invigorate the stomach, liver and bowels. One to three a dose. Easy to take as candy. Post Cards. We have the most complete line of Post Cards in the city. Be sure to look them over. Views from everywhere. We have just received a large lot of Local Views; nothing else like them in the city. Comics, Novel ty Cards, Leathers. Chinese Bar Milk. A Chinaman has the same dread of milk that an American has of oysters out of season. Several evenings ago a Chinese dignitary, who had just come into the country to study educational institutions, was taking dinner with a prominent educator in New York city. He ate freely of the American dishes until he came to the last course. Looking at the ice cream dubiously for some time, he finally took a mouth- iful. It must have given him a pleas urable sensation, this first taste of ice cream, for he smiled pleasantly at the hostess. Suudenly another Chinese who was present and who had not taken any of the dessert spoke quickly to him a sin gle Chinese word. In an instant the dignitary spat out his monthful on to bis plate, much to the consternation of every one at the table. “What did you say?” inquired the host of the Chinese who had spoken. “I said ’milk.’ ” was the stoical reply.— New York Globe. Cherokee Drug Comp’y SISTERS* READ MY FREE OFFER. This ad. with a two~o«U stamp aid your address to Mra. If. A. HUtoa, Kershaw, ■. C., will entitle ytm to tea days treatment which enraa leooor- rhea, nleeratloa, displacement, falUna of the womb, menatnml disorders, tumors, etc. Mar. IT tm. DR. W. K. GUNTER i»is >; t i e T' | Office in Star Theatre Building. Phonk No. 20. Crown an* brides work a spr-daMr A Horrible disease. Dyspepsia is in most every home, and if you want an absolute cure, we have it. Forneberger’s Dyspepsia Remedy. 50c for tablets asd 50c and 31.00 for the liquid. GAFFNEY DRUG CO. April 24 2 mo.