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"'TIS GOD WILL REPAY: I AM SAFER SO." (By George W. Cox.) 'Tis little we own in this world's life, Though station and wealth and fame, And all that the earth holds high in worth, Are summed up in our name. Oh, what is the gain at the last long sleep, From power and place and pelf, When for the glitter and tinsel show; The wretch hath bartered self? I. I walked one day to the land of sleep, Bedecked with marbles old and gray, Where the sons of men their slumbers keep; To wait the final judgment day. And of the stones there towered high, One massive shaft that pierced the sky. 'Twas new and from.its-surface bright, Was thrown the sun's declining light. I went to read what chiseled name, Remembrance in the stone might claim. Alas, the letters were not there .Some vandal youth who did not care, Perhaps had come and from its place, Under the carven rosy wreath, The name of him who s'ept beneath! Deemed it a pastime to erase, II. And as I wondered, softly came, To where I stood a gray-haired dame A gentle, smiling, angel face, Whereon the years did only trace; Celestial beauty, heavenly grace. The light that moved her dark, blue eyes, Was as the light that glorifies; The likeness of a lovely saint, Whose spirit dwells in Paradise. I felt her smile grow still and faint, When asked she gently would I know, A story of "the long ago?" III. "There sleeps," she said," beneath this stone, A man whom there is none to mourn; 1My -childhood days are blent with his Swe.et, happy clays in which there is One incident that clear and bright, Has burned into my very soul; And as a shining beacon light, The weary pilot doth control, So hath this been sinc, then to me; A guiding star on life's rough sea. Oh, who can value little things On such frail hinge3 life's door swings! I was a child in my tenth year Some younger than the sleeper here When late one golden summer day; During a pause that broke our play, A comrade said with look intense, On face of chldish innocence, 'Say, John, I wonder if you've thought,. About the time when you must die?' 'Not much,' John answered with a sigh; 'But when I do there shall be bought, A costly monument to show, What I have done in life.'-'Not so,' The other answered, 'as for me, I only care that I should be Remembered in my playmates' hearts.' And that was all. The simple arts, Of childworld fancy called us then; Back to our sports with zest again. We little thought on what was said, So far is living from the dead; In children's thought... And soon our play,. Was broken by departing day. IV. By what strange impulse I was led, To tell before I went to bed, This incident, I cannot tell; But I remember very well; The gracious words that Mother said, And howv while I was yet awvake, A hidden voice wvithin me spake; 'And will you be when life departs, Remembered in your plavmates' hearts?' V. "And as the rosy childhood years, With simple joys and hopes andl fears, Led onward to young womanhood, And love I better understood ; I felt the question o'er my soul, Like torrent of the tempest roll: 'And will you be when life departs, 'Remembered in your playmates' hearts?' (To be Continued) 1524 Main St. Phone 1831 The Trade Tom Hook BINDERY Clothing and Furnishing Goods SCHOOL BOOKS RE-BOUND Suits Made to Order 1306 Mai, Street Students W elcome Special prices to college men fo" CANDIES and ICE CREAM CONDOS BROS. AT THE 1544 Main St. Satisfaction Guaranteed Telephone So. Bell 153 and 154 C. D. KENNY COMPANY TEAS COFFEE SUGARS RESTAURANT 1639 Main Street '.L~.5.Ak.U.J~J.EILL- CO BA---------S. C. Wingfield's Drug Store 1443 Main Street Chas. L. Sligh, Florist Corsage Bouquets, Baskets of Flowers All orders given best attention 1436 Main Street Phone 2761 The Bank of Columbia COl.UMBIA. SOUTH CAROl.INA L. L. HARDIN, President E. G. SEIBELS, Vice-President JAMES MACDONALD, Vice-President STANMORE WATSON, Asst. Cashier I). A. CHILI)S, Assistant Cashier NETTLES & TOBIAS, Attorneys Solicits Students' Patronage WINTHROP NORMAL AND INDUSTRIAL COLLEGE of South Carolina Rock Hill, S. C. 110 Officers, Teachers and Assistants Over One Thousand Students Normal, Scientific and Literary Course., with lndustriral .tu1di.s Expenses for season of nine months: For students paying Tuition $180.00 For students having Free Tuition $140.00 For Scholarship Students $ 40.00 For Catalogue and other Information address D. B. Johnson, President Rock Hill, S. C. Cope/and Company Announces Fall opening of CLOTHES, HATiS, SHOES, etc.