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;*V The Press and Banner Bv W, W. and W. R. Bradley. HUGH WILSON, Editor. ABBEVILLE, S. C. *?-Pub!iahed every Wednesday at 82 i ' > ear in advance. ' Wednesday, Feb. 17, 1909. OUSTING A PREACHER. Proper Result Brought About by an lm proper Method The A. R. P. Presbytery has remove* the Rev. Wm. Duncan irom tbe First A. P. Cnurch In Charlotte, N. C. In o-r opinloi the Presbytery, acting tor the good oi Fir? Church and lor the good of the whole Cburc! could scarcely have done less in reference t Mr. Duncan and the church to which h ministers. Here is all that we And in tbe minutes, a published over the official signatures of tb Moderator, the Cierk, and the Asslblao Clerk. "A motion was made to reconsider tbe a< tion of the adjourned meeting ol Presbyter, November 17iu last, In relerence 10 the pat orate ol ihe Firm Church, Charlotte. Thi motion was amended and alter considerabi discussion the following paper was adopts a# a Substitute by a vole ol 21 to 17: "Whereas, since the adjoumea meeting c Presbytery on the 17th oi November, 1908, large number of tue most influential uiein beraofthe First A. R. P. Church in Cnar lotte, lncluaing a majority oi the officert both elders and deacons, have wltburawi irom said church because they are consciec tlousiy opposed to the pastor. Some ol tbes nave not Joined any other cuurcb and ar longing turacnurcn home, ana, whareas in schism is more decided, aud the leeling 1 more intense anu spreading even to otne congregation. "Keeuiveo, That the pastorsl relation, ej iMIng between Rev. Wm. Duncan ana th Fiici Church be and is hereby uitsoivtd, t take eiiect immediately." One or two statements in the preambl make the action of tbe Presbytery odious i* the better sentiment of mankind. The word lng of that preamble Is about as objectlonabl as It was possible to make It. This editor be lleves that In church matters the soul of on man Is theoretically about as valuable as tb soul of any otber man. , We do not believe that tbe cburcl should be movent by "Influential mem a bers," neither do ve believe tbat tb rights and feelings of the non-li: fluentlal clas should be disregarded. It was not the busl ness of the Presbytery to recognise one clas as more Influential than another. Tbe quet tlon ol Influence was not properly before tb Presbytery, and the Presbytery had no rlgb to Inject that matter Into tbe Issue. On the other hand, the Presbytery needei not to have hidden behind tbe officers of tb church In dolDg lis duty. It needed no ex cuse for discharging Its own obligation. Tbe Presbytery should not seek to organlz tbe Influential and tbe otber sort lnu dlflerent classes. In yielding to tbe just an< proper demands of tbe "influential'' factloi ' it had noJusVvcauee to speak, by Inference a least, of tbe other faction as ol less Import ance to the church. Asa whole, the pream ble has too mucn me appearance 01 magics an excuse. II was eminently proper for the Synod U dissolve the pastoral relations, and the resolution to that eflect was unobjectionable, bui the preamble in so far as it seemed to recog nlze caste or class in the First Church wa? needlessly offensive and may create a doubi as to whether the Presbytery bad the back bone to do its duty without casting down one faction and elevating the other. Th? mere fact that there was a soblsm in tht church and dissatisfaction with the preacher was all the ground that the Presbytery need ed for its action. It is not recorded if tb< Presbytery would have discharged Mr. Doncan If plain, every day members had objected to bi8 presence. The falling back on tht "Influential" leads to belief that poor folk and non-influential members are of Huh worth in the eyes of the Presbytery. When the disturbance first arose w? thought that there was no question as tc Mr. Duncan's duty to resign. The pastoi ought to be a man in whom tbe hearts of all members, including tbe non-influential should meet and confide. When that confidence and goodwill has be>n shaken in an> of the membership, tbe pastor Influence li weakened. Even if he be zealous in tb< Master's cause his efforts are crippled bj lukewarm support or by opposition?even 1 that opposition be from members of tbe noninfluential class, or casie, in the ohurch. li is the office of tbe preacher to serve all and t( be able to exercise those kindly offices to al ibat would encourage loyalty to the cnurcr and cement the love and friendship ol th< members to whom be preaches. Falling It tblB, be should resign and seek a field when be may have the undivided support of ever) member of a congregation. Religious Profanity. The Southern Christian Advocate Is certain ly one religious paper that U in its languag< as reverent as the best of the secular news papers. As far as we have noticed, It makei no flippant or needless use of the name o the Maker and Ruler of the universe. It, unlike Mohammed, does not assume tha familiarity with tbe Almighty which war rants the repeating of His name with everj breath. But Bome people must make fllppam use ol the name to make people believe ibej are religious. The buman family being large ly imitative and naturally inclined to pro fanlty, ,1s it any wonder that the readers b of an irreverent church paper should themselves become profane? Our observation would lead us to bellevf that the readers of Irreverent church paperf are much more addicted to profanity tbac are the readero of the more devout papers, 01 papers wblcb In fact are religious. We havt no sort ol doubt that to the example of somt church papers may be attributed theprofanltj of some of tbe church cfflcers. The Datura effect of Irreverent nee of the Name by tho^e who sit high In the church is to induct outright profanity in the officers and members of tbe cburcb. And we assume thai do reader would deny that some churcto officers, lollowing the example of theli church paper, are profane on 'occasion?very profane. % ' Abraham Lincoln. Much has been published within tbe last few days about Abraham LlncolD. All sort* of speculations have been Indulged in with reference to the probabilities of bis future, and tbe future of tbe South, if be bad lived1 All give blm credit for ability and honesty of purpose. He bad great Influence In restoring the unity of the United States. We forgive him lortbat, too. Leprosy and Consumption. . In Aiken the people are greatly Interest'd In a suspected case of leprosy. It Is said that there are 350 cases in the United States. The people are horrified at the presence ol a case of leprosy, but they take no particular notice of a hundred cases of consumption which cases are as infectious and as fatal as leprosy. The city of Anderson has just taken the census. That town now boasts of 15,557 population. The Press and Banner wishes that our city council would tell us the population of ^bbevllie. We may have so large a population that we need not annex Anderson to this town as& new ward. School Question Not Solved. . Congressman Aiken, In an article i! Oconee News, commented on tbe few i cants who offer for positions In Anni and West Point and 'the unprepared < tlon of those applying. He ralseB Ihe In : "whether or not It Is due to lack of thor ness In our methods of teaching." Prof McCants, replying to this In tbe Dally : agrees with much tbat Mr. Aiken has t i and without assigning a reason for th applications for appointment, says that - are plenty of boys prepared for the exa tions who do not seem to care to take tb We copy from tbe Dally Mall an edl on Mr. McCants letter which ralEes som tlnent inquiries: We print In today's paper an Interest!] ter lrotn aupt. E. c. McCants of the And city Bcnools. lie toucues on several dlf - school matters. Mr. McCants admits thai the coi schools of the Stale are not doing as work as the sobools In some other stat A doing. This is an important admission, c< > from such a man. We consider Mr. Mc a one ol tbe best school superintendents I . State. The people or Anderson &uow the Anderson Schools are doing b thorough worK under his admlnlstralioc 0 they have ever done before; aad thos have talked with him have heard bli that they are not doing as thorough wo he wauls them to do. He is more anxlc s improvement than anybody else can bly be. But nobody, we believe, has criticising the Anderson schools. 1 The assertion has been made tha schools of the State as a rale are not good work, and tbls is candidly admltt ' the teachers themselves. Now, what > mallei? Tbls is tbe question ibal all - would like to have answered. fc We would like for Mr. McCants to t again for tbe paper on tbls line, ai a would like for others to Join in tbe d slon. From such a dlscusston we ma " ideas that will be beneficial. A gener H cussion of the fact that there is some - wrong with our sobool system may av - tbe people to tbe conditions, and cause '? to demand an improvenent. Li Col. Henry Thomson. s Col. Henry Thomson, of Columbia, adi ' ed tbe Knlgbts of Pythias at their f . Hall last nlgbt. Col. Thomson is a l t speaker and there is no doubt but tbi 0 L'nlfrhtu cnlnuoH a rare* IrAAl. g 0 Charles Petty. iMr. Charles Petty, the best preaober I State, Is do longer with the Carolina Spi t The scintillations of his pen are to be se e ihe Evening Journal, but we do not bi Journal. As a good man, as a good la 3 as an honest writer, and as a preacher < gospel of truth and righteousness, he 8 ? at the bead. e b Much Needed Law. b An act of the Legislature should be j e giving the man wbo loses a mule or. hoi t reason of bad food, the right to colle< value of the animal In damages from tb 3 son selling the corn. Many a poor mat t practically his whole estate In the deat single male. Mrs. Hughes Better. j Mrs. E. H. Hughes, living In Fort Pl< 3 who has been very sick, was said to t been some better yesterday evening. The vital question of making in tb< > gusta dam a suitable way for $1.35 woi Qsh to come up the river to us, has rec ' attention of the Legislature, The eetli value of all the flab in the Savannah 1 might be put at $2.63? If they could be ct * ?K?r, tttq ?An 1H nnf crlvfi IS Afintfl fc * whole catch. L ig| Various kinds of prohibition are talk 1 In the Legislature. The prohibition^ the looal opilonlsts seemed pretty* divided lust week. , Judge Hydrlck was elected Assoolate . tlce last week. When Mr. Sheppard witt . nearly all his frleDds voted for Hy , Their unanimity of action Is notable. > Don't forget to make your tax r< February 20tb Is the last day, wltbont pe ' A man In Aiken has been convloti ' killing bis wife. He was not a prom 1 citizen?just a plain laborius citizen, I They are movtng to "strike out the ens , words," and "moving to adjourn." Grand Jury for 1909., 1 F. Henry Abbevll J. B. Sharp Long Cat , . W. E. Ellis LongCai J. A. Mcllwaln Long Cai ' C. S. Glbert Cedar Sprln I -T A MtAcnncnn __ TjOnff Tftl . J.H.Bell Lowndesvll C. E. Wilson Cedar 8prln G. P. WatklCK......... Bordeac i F. C. Manoe MagDol i Tbop. Stevenson Abbevll DeWltt Hall Abbevll ' B. E. Allen LowDdesvll Geo. W. Calvert Diamond HI H. W. Cocbran Long Cai M. P. McCalla Lowndesvll T. H. G; rdon Donali Jobn 4.. Wllaou Calhoun Mil Petit Jnry February Court. J. A. Bone Lowndesvllle G.E. Putnam Abbeville 5 T. F. Uldrlck Long Cane I Hugh Bowen Long Cane Joe H. Hill Diamond Hill J. T. Cheatbam Abbeville 1 C. M. CllnkBC8leB Lowndesvllle S. P. Morrab ..Calboun Mills J. B. Winn Donalda J. L. Kennedy Calboun Mills 1 W.B. Goings Due West i Willis Mars Calboun Mills Joe Ferguson .Abbeville J. M. Gambrell Abbeville W. B. Bally Diamond Hill t L.H.Simpson Diamond Hill W. F. Vermillion Donalds W. C. Sutherland Abbeville C. C. Gilliam Cedar 8prlngs > R. L. Keaton Diamond Hill . Ernest W. Hagan Due West J. K. Edwards Long Cane I I A A nnom T)/\nol/la E. S. Trammell Abbeville J. F. CllnkBcale* Magnolia R. L. Smith Bordeaux W. 0. Brownlee Due West T. L. CanD Abbeville J. A. Williams Bordeaux J.M.Specce lodiau Hill > R. H.Taggart Calhoun Mills > J. 8. Mann Abbeville C. V.MartlD Donalds G. A. Haunob LongCane I R. D. Lolllf Donalds i J. F. Glberi Cedar Springs IT IS JUDGE SEASE. Solicitor of Seventh Circuit Electe Judge Hydrick's Successor. 1 Columbia, Feb. 18.?'Thomas ' Seaee, solicitor of the seventh eir ; was today elected judge of that cii without opposition to fill out the u pired term of Judge D. E. Hydi [ who was elected to a place on the ' nreitip hpnnh. There was talk of other candid but none were nominated today Mr. Sease was elected without op] tion. He was elected to fill out unexpired term and then for a ?erm of aix years. McMnrrrty'it I.oral*. Did you ever stop to think how your si heart would appreciate a nice box of St( candy as a valentine? Steere's candy in red hearts for valenl Nothing more acceptable. t Just for remembrance,?a valentine card. We have lots of them. New poet cards, in many varieties, wor , art, are they. Just opened up our 1909 garden seed. fre?h seed. Qlenn Springs and Harris litbla wat five gallon demijohns, sealed in glau, al fresh. Let us nil your want*. .. .... . " * * ' -T ' f/v q the appllipolls JODdlquiry oUgb.E. C. Mall, o say, e few there mlnalem. torlal le per g letleraon terent nmoo good ea are >mlng 1 iCanle in the that more 1 tban e who lq say irk an lus lor pOBBlbeen t tbe doing ed by Is tbe 1 ol UB write id we lseuBiy get al alBablng rakeu them dresBCastle Baent >t tbe . via & i ui' - . nooen tee mini ueair' th_ Mr. Robert Lee Winn, died of pneumon at bis borne on tbe Oedar Springs road fr< &rtan. Abbeville, this county, Sunday night, F en In 14.1909, aged 46 years. lh. Only a month ago be Btood by tbe op grave of hie brother, Mr. Jefferson Da irmer, winD, whose death was due to tbe sai )f tbe diead disease. It may almost be said itartric tbem as of Saul and Jonathan "they wi lovely and pleasant In their lives, and death they were not divided." Mr. Winn leaves a wife, formerly M Black ot this county, and eight chlldreD. Modest, quiet, industrious, Mr. Winn v a model citizen. Be attended to bis o< lassed affairs and did it well and be bad no word . Intermeddling oensnra or crltloism for I se, by neighbors. st tbe Mr. Winn bad Jast finished a nloeboi ie oer- and there was every promise of a long a , happy life in comfortable surroundings wl i loses bjg wife aDd children about blm. b of a Surely tbe troubles have thickened oi thlB family. Wltbln a monlb two brotht have been laid to rest In tbe cltr of tbe de and even now, Mr. Lee Winn's eldest son critically 111 and another son quite sick wl pneumonia. Mr. Winn was a member of Upper Lo jkens Cane Presbyterian church. Rev.F. W. Grei h pastor of the cbnrch, oonducted tbe fune aa servloes yesterday at eleven o'clock. He w burled In Long Cane cemetery. Here rests tbe body with its kindred clay, . Here weep bis friends, as if the gaping tot 3 au- cloggy o'er the real man?that deathless r th of Undlmmed by trial or by tbe abadowi selved gloom. aoated ^ ^ . 1 Death of a Child. ir tbe James Simmons, only Bon of Mr. A/S. Sli mons, died at borne bere Thursday, Febi ary 11th, 1609, aged seven years. He had be sick for several days with appendicitis wb ed of waB finally concluded that an operatl . wonld be necessary. Tbe operation develc b ana ^ jaol (.bat the trouble bad progress venly too far for tbe child to be saved. Sympathy for tbe father and mother is < pressed on every band. Tbe ligbt has go oat In tbe borne and hope and promise e i jng. veiled from tear dimmed eyes. Mr. and Mrs. Simmons cam* to Abbevl idrew about two years ago, where he engaged drlck manager of A. M. Smith A Cb.'s dry goo and millinery establishment. He aDd M Simmons were met with hearty welcome the people of Abbeville. Tbey are personal stnrn very popular, and tbe deepest sympathy 1A ' everywhere felt for tbem in ibis their bc Daily trial. ed of lnent 3421. Report of tbe Condition of Tie National Bant of AM at Abbeville, in tbe State or Soutb Carolir at tbe close of business, Feb'ry. 5lb, 1909. RESOURCES. Loans and discounts 5212,158 Overdrafts, secured and unsecured... 11,217 i!? U.~8. Bonds to secure circulation 18,780 Bonds, securities, etc 500 ?f Banking boose, furniture and fixtures 5,000 Due Irom National Banks (not Reserve Agents).. 17,893 Due from State Banks and Bankers 2,351 ,* Due front approved reserve agents... 13,911 If Checks and Other Cash Items 10 ? Notes of otber National Banks 2,435 Hi Fractional paper ourrency, nickels, ' ' and cents 655 Lawful Money Reserve In Bank, viz: J? Specie Ill,810 00 ft!! Legal-tender notes..., 8,715 00? 20,025 Redemption fund wltb U. 8. Treas'r (5 per cent, of circulation) :.n 937 Total .. .*305,3M 1 LIABILITIES. Capital stock paid In 9 75,000 Surplus fund. 20,000 Undivided profits, less expenses and i taxes paid.;. 11,801 National Bank notes outstanding 18,750 Individual deposits subject to cbeck 126,540 Savings Deposits 37,370 i Demand certificates of deposit....*.. 15,882 Total ..^$8ft844 State of South Carolina, I County of Abbeville, f J*?," I, H. G. Smith, Cashier of the above*mim bank, do solemnly swear tbat'ttw abo statement Is true to the bestofipayknow led and belief. H. Q. Smith; Casbjer Subscribed and sworn to tie/ore. me tt 13th day of Feb'ry., 1909. , c r-' 0 *' W. H. White, ' T]/IN<K?ry Ppolio Correct?Attest : J. R. GLENN, ) J. S. STARK. > Directors. J. ALLEN SMITH, j The State of South Carolina ABBEVILLE COUNTY. Probate Court.?Citation for Letters of A ministration. By J. F. Miller, Esq., Judge of Probate. Wbereas, W. A.Turman baa made suit me, to grant blm Letters of Administrate of tbe Estate and effeots of Anna Robertso late of Abbeville Couuty, deceased. These are therefore, to cite and admonii all and singular tbe kindred and creditors tbe said Anna Robertson, deceased, tb A they be and appear before me, In the Court Probate, to be held at Abbeville C. H., < Wednesday, the 24th day of February, 19< after publication hereof, at 11 o'clock In tl c? forenoon, to show cause if any tbey hav : ' why tbe said Administration should not I CUlt, granted. rcuit Given under my band and seal of tbe Coui npx- lhi8 8th d"y ?* February..in tbe y<M . , of our Lord one thousand nine hui flCK, dred and nine, and In tbe 183rd yei 8U- of American Independence. Published on the 10th day of Februar; , 1909, In tbe Press and Banner and on tt ates, Court House door for the time required t and iaw. J. F. MILLER, Judge of Probate. mmusic studio HlKbent T>nM?nonialH. Prof. Jules G- Huguelefc iveet- OrgaDiBt Methodist Church, ierc'8 AND TEACHKR OF Jnes. Piona, Violin and Organ. Abbeville, S. C. P?*1 Studio on second floor of new Realt bs of Company building, next to new pos office. Miss Carrie Huguelet assistar Al1 teacher and in charge of studio. Br In wavs A keg of fine caonmbera in brine Just i colved. Amos B. Morse Oo. ? mi m this space ?tes ?FOR? Algernon S. Sir Ladies', Misses and CI Ready-to-V\ A. SPECIAL! HOSIERY. GLOVES, I LACES, EMBROID] - NOTIONS AND N ready fob business f NEW BUILDING WEST E 3tn yd !' MM ' OF ' W*: ;pr7^ )/ / $ ! EVERY TWO MINUTE! ? 13 ! , BY THE W 46 68 ' 32 00 A person dies in the United States of 40 Do yon know how many die each year in 00 lina, in Abbeville County, from that drei j? The Great Whit# Plague?consumption ber is appalling. \ oo Right now is the time when we see it pronounced. If possible, would you not < {*' to protect yourself from its ravages? 86 94 ?9 NEUFFER'S LUNG TONI< lis is a combination of ingredients of recog a? 1* a i if x Tr A.. antiseptic ana neauug properties. xi t; will dt much to prevent you contracts i. ^tion; for its special action is to strengthe build up the broken down tissues and act antiseptic. It is of incalculable benefit ii t0 diseases, measles, colds, grip or wherev ? persistent, hacking cough. Thousands *? Neuffer's Lung Tonic and testify to its i l\ neglect that cough, it may mean a cc ?. grave. Did you ever think of it?1 Qe ? Neuffer's Lung Tonic is only 50 cents rf| it may s^ve your life or that of some o] j- you than life. ir lie - The McMurray Drug Cc Always Looking to Yonr InterfNt*. | NotiC0 of I' Call and see me at once, as I have two neat cottages near public square to dispose of at a Take noilce, that tli< ' sacrifice. Three sales of dwellings have re- to a commission Issu oently been made lntbeclty to new comers, Secretary of State, wil and the supply Is running short. Can sell open the boons ot sub you a number of vacant lots, but unless you stock of Abbeville ln? apply early cannot fill your hill for Improved pany, nt Hip rfll<-e ol property. Not a vacant dwelling In the city, vllle.S.C. Said cnrrc and the supply Is not <qual to demands, so Hal stork or ;8.(00 dl you had bent look after the two cottages men- the par vulue of S10D e: y tloned. Al. K. Hollingsworih. tr it Land for Sale. I will sell 60 acres of land three miles from Go to Mllford's for _ Hodges and two miles from Warevllle, with- Drug Books Ktstlon In half mile of railroad. Terms easy. Ap- Varnishes, Holiday G re ply to W. W. Bradley. cles. We carry the lai with prices right. 1 served |^H Dions lildren's /ear Y. PARASOLS, ERIES, OVELTIES. March 1st IVTTk DATT A T>T1 i\?J ^ A . <.A WJW/k v * v/ # f/ir^ J 5 Miss Patti Rosa With The Lyman Twiru MhsPattl Ro?h dargbler of tbe late Patl Roeu wbu was one o! lue greatest favorites oi ? tbe American stage a few years ago, Is sup porting Tbe'Lyman Twins ibis season 1 tbelr big Dew musical produatlon "Tbe Yan kee Drummers." Tnls little lady 1b a chip c i the old block when comparing her to her ft uqouh mother and bas won great prominenc oi I Hm as a cotntdlenne and singer, being glfte U I with a sweet voice and a smiling lace wblcl D together with her pleasing manner, make he ______ scores of friends wbereever she goes. Bbe ha also won great comment on boys parts whlol she makes up so perfect that few on tbestag today can follow. Bbe plays an entirely nei role tnis season, that of a iresb country girl li _ . The Lyman Twins new pioduotlon and ha rUDerCUlOSiS. made more than a bit In tbls line of worh She will Introduce several new and orlglna SOUth. C&rO" ?ongs which have been written especially fo ad monster? _?. ? The num- . Eggs for Hatching. From pure bred Buff OrplngtoD. Headei by my prize winning cockerel. Tbe best Or plngton's in the State. 82.00 per setting ol 1 s effects most I Abbeville,S.C. Barbershop. lo something ,lnrt Unloading a car of best Jelllco coal-on): or. IV) o tAn W w M WWM, A good stock of barbed aud poultry wire Staples lor putting up both. Ilevolls at Cold Steel. ^ "Your ouly hope," suid three doc 1 ) tors to Mrs. M. E. Fisber, Detroit J Mich., suffering from rectal trouble "liea iu an operation,"? "then i usee Dr. King's Isew Lile Pills," she writes, "till wholly eureu." Tbey preveni rnized tonic, ' Appendicitis, cure Constipation,Headaken in time aclle- ^ atleed's dI"s Qg C0I18limp- PNUMONIA FOLLOWS LA GRIPPE. innn> Pneumonia olten follows la grippe but nev!U Lllc lUDgS, er luljows ibe uti- ol Koie> 'c Honey hlu Tai for la grippe cough* bid deep beauct coide as a general Keluse huj but ibe genuine In tbe yellow package. C. A. AlMioiu <t Co, q all wasting er thpre is a Gaod Laud WHU,<,dWanted?A tract ol good land In tblscouni V?in7<i 1100H '>' lW0 toUU(Jred t? ibree liundnd acres; \ nave UocU ltvel.and in good state ol culu ailon, In de i t* ,, slrabie community. Apply W. W. Bradley, nerit. Don t Abbeville, a. c. >nsumptive S ^1jje J0D^ Winler m0uibs? heavy foods ?lack of exercise decrease your vital llty, make jou leti mean. iioiiisters a bottle and iBocky Mountain Tea gives you vitali, ty?clears tbe blood?uuilda up flesb. tie dearer to Makes you strong and robust. Great Spring medicine. Tea or Tablets, 35 cents. (J. A. Mil ford & Co. Seaboard Mcbt-dule. No. 5'J Northbouiid 12.;37 p.m. No. 33 Southbound 12.-J3 p.m. Vestibule, kmnlnil No, .")< Southbound 17 p.m. Lucui. EB S 6 IB/w MB If No. :cj Northbouud 4.07 p.m. Vebtlbule. riiiwttll W No. .?> Norlbf.-ound 1.17 a.m. No. J1 Southbound a.^6 a.m. Qcorporation, Social functions of winter, midnight . I lim/.huc lnuu nf lilppn 11 1)11 f lift hPMlrll a uuur,1.,*," u, pursuant ? - iP'V tc.i L^V' *M'C(i?n, Holli.-sler's Rocky Mountain Tea clears nrription to thp^Hpiiai lbe Wood, "'d* digestion, relieves ta-j nrancr anrt Trust c?m- tigue; makes and retains your health. ' Wm. 1\ Greene. Altbe- Gieutest toijJC. Tea or Tablets. 35 vrdcT.mu'soVhH^eT^ ^uls- A- & Co. ach. + J. E. McDAVlD J. S. STARK ' Don't wear yourself out going all ovpr town Corporators looking lor Xmas goods when yofl can go ' dlrtd lo the siures ol Mllford and get what anything you want In want and prices right. ery, Glaus. 1'alnt Oil Tlje McAlurray Drug Co. has a cream for oods and Toilet Art!- cleaning silver thai can't be beat. Niagara gest stock in the State Cream Paste 1h the name. 25 oenle la the price. None better. Try It. :?mg A TO'.ir.H. ' A living coal, and with :ts glow It touched another coal, whe n, lo, The dark form into radiance grew, And light and cheer beamed forth ewk j o.-'r A loving heart, and with its love It touched another heart, which straw , With advene waves or troubled sea. When oars were plying heavily. And, lo, through rifted clouds Hope traOt^ And Love the weariness beguiled. That living coal be mine to glow, That living heart be mine to show, While earth has sorrowing hearts that wait The opening o{ Redemption's gate. ?Advance 1 HOTEL KEYS, they Are Carried OM by Oaeits Wlo Forret to Give Them bp. "Our key fitter is one of the most important men on our staff," said the manager of a large New Orleans hotel. "He :s Kept Dusy every aay or tne year, ana sometimes he is so rushed with w4fk that he has to call in an assistant. It is no exaggeration to say that he averages ' from 25 to 30 keys a day." "But I would suppose," remarked a listener, "thafeven a big hotel would acquire a sufficiency of keys in the course of time." "So it does," replied the manager, "if the public would only let it keep 'em; but it won't. It would astonish anybody not in the business to knew how many guests walk off with their room keys when they leave the house. When the average maa gets ready to depart, he packs his valise, locks his door and then goes direct to the cashier's wicket to settle his bill. When that formality is attended to, he is generally in a rush to get to the depot and ! y quite apt to forget that he has omitted \ to return his key at the clerk's desk. That, at any rate, is the way I account for so much absentmindedness on the subject. The clerk doesn't discover that the key is gone until the chambermaid applies for it to clean up the room, which Is probably an hour or two after the guest has taken his departure. Then \ nothing remain but to call hi the key) m fitter and tell him to prepare a duplicate as quickly as he can. "Formerly the hotels tried to guard against this innocent kleptomania," the-' manager went on, "by having their keyi made very large aid cumbersome and attaching them to enormous metal tags, the. idea being to reader it impossible to put them in one's pocket > To that end they were probably a success, but they * were such an unmitigated nuisance otherwise, and guests complained so bitterly at the annoyance of: handling them, that they were generally discarded. You will still fjnd the plan popular in the country, however, and in small houses that have no locksmiths on the premises, and only a week or so ago I dropped into a quaint little establishment where the keys werex attached to brass disks fully as large at dessert plates and serrated at the edge like circular saws. / "At present most of the big hotels use a modest metal check, stamped with theis address and a request to forward through the mails if accidentally carried off. All i that is necessary is to attach a 3 cent > stamp to the tag and drop the key in the nearest letter box. Incidentally I may say that about one man in 50 takes the trouble. But, aside from the room ^eys carried away by guests, a vast number ot all kinds disappear tnrongn tne mysterious channels to oblivion that exist In aS y large hotels. They vanish, and that's the end of it?keys to furniture, wardrobe beys, closet keys, bathroom keys, keys to the help's lockers, padlock keys from the outside storerooms, big coal bunker keys, gate keys and keys of every imaginable \ size, shape and style. They are continually missing and have to be replaced. If * lost key turns up later, the duplicate is carefully ticketed and laid away in drawer set aside for that purpose. But they seldom turn ijp. They have gone to tne limbo or lost pins, last season s Diras' nests and the snows of yesteryear."?' I New Orleans Times-Democrat. J Eat All Yon Can, Mother! 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