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t Siinwaus Department. What Might Have Been.?They were (alfcipg about the joys of a pood cigar, and Congressman Henry T. Helgesen, of North Dakota, was reminded of a certain esteemed citizen who was greatly opposed to tobacco in any form. One afternoon the anti-smoke party met an ^acquaintance who was industriously puffing away on a mammoth pipe, and In another minute an argument on the evil effects of the weed was in full swing. "You may say what you please in its defense." emphatically declared the anti, "but tobacco is known to be poisonous to the human system and has a tendency to shorten life." "You are entirely mistaken." responded the other, who was a healthy looking delegate of several summers. "I have smoked regularly ever since I was 14, and I am now 60." "Yes." eagerly rejoined the other. who wouldn't be convinced, "and if you hadn't smoked, you might have been 70."?Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph. Advice to a Son.?"The late Michael Maybrick, the composer of 'The Blue Alsatian Mountains' and many other famous songs," said a New York music publisher, according to the Washington Star, "was a sentimental soul. He had old fashioned, sentimental ideas about honor and love and rectitude. "I once Introduced Maybrick in Liondon to a successful financier. Maybrick told me afterwards that the financier whose career had been checkered, reminded him of old Millions. Then, in scornful accents, he told me this story: " 'Remember one thing,' said old Millions on his death-bed to his son. 'Remember this one thing. It is a rule ? - a T* *c? tho QD. I've rouoweu ail jiij uic o cret, in fact, of my success. " 'Yes, father; yes;' said the young man eagerly. 44 'Never do a jallable act,' whispered the old man in impressive tones. 'Hire somebody to do it for you.'" Trutnful Willie.?A middle-aged spinster who lived in the suburbs had a fine orchard. She likewise had a heap of trouble with a lot of youngsters, who looked on the orchard as something placed there for their especial benefit. Finally the spinster decided that she could do more with kindness than with a fence rail, so she prepared a feast of apples and other dainties and invited every small boy in the burg to Join the jubilee. "Now, tell me, boys," said the hostess at the conclusion of the feast, "would the apples you have Just eaten taated so good had you stolen them?" "No, ma'am," answered little Willie Smith with surprising: frankness. "I am certainly glad to hear you say that, little man," responded the spinster, with a glow of pleasure. Why wouldn't they have tasted so good?" "Because," came the equally frank reply of Willie, "we wouldn't have had no ice cream and cake with them."? Washington Star. A Cheerful Spirit.?Senator Bristow was talking about a Washington "lobby whose lobbying had failed, relates I the Star. '"fhey took their shipwreck very philosophically, very cheerfully," he said. "They reminded me of the Ohio farmer in the spring floods. "The farmer, having been flooded out was rushing down stream with his family in a dilapidated skiff. A relief boat steamed up to him and the skipper called: ' "Hullo there, what do you want?" The farmer, balling with one hand and paddling with the other, answered, cheerfully: " 'Nothin' but wings, boss. Nothin' but wings."" A Born Statesman.?"What's the idea, George?" inquired Mr. Washington. "Why do you chop down this cherry tree? Have you anything against cherry trees?" "No, sir." "Maybe you are in favor of deforestation " "No, sir." "Doing this for a moving picture concern?" "By no means." "Then why chop down a tree?" "I Just thought of going on the stump," replied the future father of his country, and then Mr. Washington realized that George was a born Mt&irsxiiciii.?ivuusus uuuuiai. Anticipation.?"Alio, Bill! You do look pale and thin. Bill! Wot's wrong, Bill? Been ill. Bill?" Thus spoke one jovial frequenter of the gutter to a friend he had not seen for weeks. Bill passed a hoary hand across his brow. "No." he observed, "I ain't been ill; it's work?work from 10 in the morning till 9 at night, and only one hour's rest. Think of it, mate!" "Lumme," replied Bill's mate. "And where arc yer workin'? 'Ow long have yer been there?" "I ain't been there yet," retorted Bill with a groan, "I begin tomorre"! ' Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph. It3r Lovely weather, isn't it? A lady whom we know went to see the doctor yesterday. "Well, how are you today?" said the physician cheerfully. "Well, doctor," she replied, "the cold I caught Tuesday is a little bet ter, thanks to your prescription. But the one I caught Thursday is much worse. The thing I called to see you for, however, is the severe cold I caught last night." The doctor sat down and wrote a long line of hieroglyphics. "Here," he said, "is something lor the one you will catch this evening with that V-neck and those skimpy skirts. Good afternoon!" . Told by London's Bishop.?The bishop of London told the following story to illustrate the difficulty sometimes met with by missionaries among the working class. "A curate goes to a house," he said, "and knocks timidly at the door. He hears a voice shout. "Who's there. Sally?' and Sally replies. "Please, mother, it is "religion."' "It requires a little bit of tact for a man to do what he ought to do when he is ushered in as 'religion' on washing day."?London Standard. He Did Before.?"Why, Tommy," exclaimed the Sunday school teacher, "don't you say your prayers every night before you go to bed?" "Not any more." replied Tommy: "I uster when I slept in a foldin' bed, though."?Boston Globe. piscfUanrous grading. 1 THE UNITED STATES BAN <. How Famous Institution Was Killed by Andrew Jackson. The president of the National City Bank of New York, Frank A. Vanderlip, has suggested to the senators and representatives at Washington who are trying to thrash out the currency problem, a plan for a United States reserve bank which shall be national in scope. Mr. Vanderlip's plan pro-1 vides for a bank with a capital stock of 100 million dollars to be subscribed either by the government or by private individuals and banks. t? maito muoh difference. as far as the administration of the bank would be concerned, which of these alternatives were adopted, for the stock would have no voting power. Stockholders would merely receive dividends of 51 or 6 per cent. The bank would be governed by a commission of even directors, appointed by the president and confirmed by the senate, and it would be a bankers' bank as far as its customers were concerned; that is to say, it would lend money to banks, not to individuals. The Federal government would deposit all its money in the United States Bank. This proposal of Mr. Vanderlip's is interesting in many ways, not the least of which is the contrast which it offers to the old United States Bank which Andrew Jackson put out of existence eighty years ago. That was a bank in which individuals had the whip hand?the Federal government owned only 20 per cent of the stock? so that the bank was able to defy the government and run its affairs to suit itself. Jackson believed it was a great menace, a legalized money trust, and from the time he came into office he exerted every effort to destroy the Bank of the United States. He succeeded finally. To begin at the beginning, however. The first Bank of the United States was established in 1791 for the purpose of remedying some of the very evils Mr. Vanderlip believes his plan might obviate?the evils of a faulty currency system. In the early days of the republic our national finances were in a chaotic condition. The currency was irregular and debased when the Revolution closed; all sorts of money was in circulation?English shillings, Spanish dollars, "scrip," or paper money, issued by the Continental congress, whose value was a matter of argument, depending upon whether you believed the government was solvent. A great aeai 01 me tw.. In circulation was clipped and filed and plugged, and wild cat banks issued paper money, whose value was a matter of the wildest speculation. To help bring order out of this financial chaos the first Bank of the United States was organized, with a 20year charter. It had a capitalization of 10 million dolars, of which the Federal government subscribed 8 million dollars, and it was a well managed and successful institution. Alexander Hamilton was its principal sponsor. This bank ran a successful course for twenty years; its notes were legal tender, and were about the only paper money in the country which really was "good as gold." However, the first Bank of the United States died a natural death in 1811, when congress refused to renew its charter. The bill for a new charter failed by one vote in the senate?the deciding vote which the vice president, George Clinton, cast. There followed five years of wild cat banking in the United States. After the War of 1812 many of the same currency troubles which had followed the Revolution recurred. In 1816 congress was glad enough to charter a second Bank of the United States. This second United States Bank differed in some ways from the first institution. As has been pointed out, the government subscribed for only 20 per cent of this bank's stock, instead of 80 per cent, as it had in the first bank. That gave the control of the board of directors to wealthy private citizens instead of to the Federal government. However, the second bank of the United States prospered. Its notes were sound money, and it was a healthy fiscal Institution up to the time Andrew Jackson began his war against it. Jackson's attack on the bank was founded on his implicit belief that the bank held too much despotic power. It was a money trust, he insisted, and it used its influence for evil, strangling smaller private institutions that were in its way, and developing favorite sections of the country instead of working disinterestedly for the benefit of the whole country, There is no doubt that there was a good deal of truth in Jackson's contentions, and, whatever the bank's actual offenses had been, it had more power than should have been concentrated in the hands of any set of citizens, however honest or able. Th< bank had great and grave possibilities of evil in it. * J v.* * V> o < mere is no uuuui, euuci, mw Jackson was carried away in the heal of his angry determination to kill th? Bank of the United States. He foughi the bank in ways which were neithei wise nor fair, and when he had wor his fight, the condition of finances ir the United States was, for the tim< being at least, much worse than it hac been when the Bank of the United States was in existence and receiving aid and co-operation of the government. Jackson believed the good h< accomplished by the destruction ol the bank was worth the incidental evils it involved. When Jackson first became president in 1829 he registered his hostility to the Bank of the United States ir his first message to congress. Th< bank's charter still had seven years t< run, but Jackson began his campaigr against it at once. Officials of the ban! headed by its president, Nicholas Biddie of Philadelphia, went to the Whit< House to see him and try to soften tht edge of his rancor against the bank but their errand was fruitless. Jackson received them very coldly and lei them know he was not to be swayed In 1831 the bank petitioned for s renewal of its charter and the mattei was brought before congress. Aftei endless debates and a vast amount ol wrangling a bill to re-charter the banl< passed both the house and the senatt in the summer of 1832. Jackson vetoed the bill July 10, on the grounds that the bank was a harmful monopoly, one-fifth of its stockholders wer< foreigners, that the United States gav< banks certain rights which it withheld from individuals, the states could taj the bank stock owned by their citizens and thus drive the stock out ol I th? country, the few stockholder " left In the country could control the bank, the bank's charter was unconstitutional, anyhow, the bank's business was exempt from taxation, the bank was said to be mismanaged, a better fiscal agent could be devised and the bank favored the rich ana discriminated against the poor. Congress was unable to pass the bill over Jackson's veto, lacking the necessary two-thirds majority. The following December, Jackson was re-elected to the presidency. He completed the work of wrecking the Bank of the United States. Congress refused to authorize him to withdraw imvornmMit's funds, which were on deposit in the Bank of the United States, and distribute them among state banks. Jackson did it anyhow. When his secretary of the treasury, William Duane, refused to issue the necessary order, Jackson dismissed him from office and appointed a man who would obey, Roger B. Taney, afterwards chief justice of the supreme court. The funds were withdrawn and a very considerable disturbance of business followed. The Bank of the United States went out of business In March, 1836. It was rechartered by the state of Pennsylvania, but failed to maae a go of it and closed permanently in 1840.? Kansas City Star. DAVY CROCKETT Famous Frontiersman Who Died in the Alamo. Perhaps, strictly speaking, Davy Crockett was not a trail breaker of any great importance. Although he was one of the first to follow the trail to Texas, he certainly did not blaze it, and his pathflndlng activities were in the main confined to certain portions of western Tennessee. But for all that he was a fellow spirit of Kit Carson and Daniel Boone, and he belonged to that advance guard of American adventurers whose exploits made possible the settlement of the west. Certainly Davy Crockett was as picturesque a back-woodsman as any one of them, and far better known thari most. He was an Irishman, this Davy Crockett, and Job's proverbial turkey was an emblem of bloated wealth compared with Crockett, senior, Davy's father, who settled in eastern Tennessee. Before he was 13 years old Davy ran away, picked up a living somewhere in various portions of the country from Tennessee to the Atlantic seaboard, and returned home at 15, being then too large to be spanked, to help his father, who was still struggling frantically to keep the wolf from the door. Davy once worked six months to pay a $25 debt of his father's. and almost a year to settle a $50 obligation. Then, when he was 18 years old and hadn't a penny to bless himself with, he married an Irish girl a year or two younger than himself, installed her In a log cabin that had contained neither bed, chair, table, knife or fork, and settled aown to enjoy lire, nowever, he borrowed 515 and "fixed the place up pretty grand," he assures us. He made a living largely by hunting and trapping. But Davy Crockett was always one of those whose neighbor's smoke vexed his eyes, and at 21 he decided that the part of Tennessee he was in was getting too thickly populated. So he packed his frlfe, twc children and household goods upor one mare and two colts and started for the western part of the state. There he found abundance of game, and there he stayed two years. Ther the Creek war broke out and Davj Crockett joined Jackson's command and fought Indians for awhile. At 23 he is described as a blue-eyed, sandy haired man, big and loose swung, with a straight nose and a merry mouth TL~ Uf^l: 1 lit Norris' Candies Are Better During the favor of H< this good year factorily serve find the gift yo just what you DO YOUR SHOPPING A THE TIME FOR GIFT I 5 SHORT, and every day you put i ing just that much harder. Tak I come to the SHIEDER DRUG S' est convenience, and you will fii mas buying will be a real plea goods?an almost endless assoi t gifts for everybody from the II . to the aged Grandfather and G ( in the chimney corner and dres seasons of other days. Yes, you 1 will just suit you if you'll com > DRUG STORE, Won't you com? L waiting for you and glad to see y I TOYS FOR CHILI > If you are looking for TOYS you'll find them here. Mechan ; that are not Mechanical, and yc r ety of Games that will helg to a: for hours at a time, and provide I ment for older folks. YES, THERE'S BOOI A Book is always a source of pie r pie, and especially Books of Ad^ i these here as well as Picture Be folks. PICTURES , Yes, we have PICTURES, too. them?All sizes and prices?Som [ the most famous masterpieces of ? MANICURE SETS, BRUS Of course these are to be foui ' almost anything you might wan , want to pay. There are some wc in these Sets and you ought to s< J FOUNTAIN PE The Twentieth Century Man oi a Fountain Pen, is badly out of 1 times. These make desirable gi r hasn't a Fountain Pen. make y< . Fountain Pens. We are showing . prices ranging from $1.00 upwai sell are guaranteed to give entire ; gIft ; Headquarters c He made good as a scout and was regarded as a capable and trustworthy j person, possessed of a good many of the attributes of leadership. When the I war was over, Davy went back to pioneering. This time he chose as his j field what was known as .the Chero< kee Purchase, a wild and lawless country In what was then the far west a country only recently opened to white men. He throve, and though the country had no laws, Crockett was made a Judge. Also he was a colonel of militia and a great man in those parts. He had a ready gift for story telling, and his neighbors chose him to represent them in the legislature. This new domain of Crockett's was on the Mississippi river, right across from the New Madrid district in Missouri, and it was a great land for black bears, which were found in the canebrakes. Crockett reveled in it. One year he killed 105 bears, and once he shot three in a half hour. Tales of his prowess as a hunter spread over Tennessee and even the people back east, who weren't as proficient then as thpv have afterwards become, heard of Davy Crockett. Largely because he was an eminent hunter, the people of his district sent him to congress. Certainly Davy Crockett must have stirred up Washington a bit. He started east In regular frontier costume? moccasins, leather shirt and all. At Raleigh, N. C., he met a stranger. Here Is Crockett's account of the conversation: "Said he, 'Hurrah for Adams!' and said I, 'Hurrah for hell and praise your own country!* And he said, 'Who are you?' Said I, 'I'm that same Davy Crockett, fresh from the backwoods, half man, half alligator; can wade the Mississippi, leap the Ohio, ride a streak of lightning, slide down a honey locust and not get scratched. I can whip my weight in wild cats, hue a bear to close for comfort." and eat any man opposed to Jackson.'" However, he changed his mind afterward about Jackson. Crockett was as independent as Old Hickory himself, and he soon clashed with him on a number of subjects. In 1834 the Tennessee woodsman made a trip through the east, speaking at Philadelphia, New York and Boston, and there was some talk, which Crockett seems to have taken seriously, of running him for the presidency. It was, of course, the merest chatter, for Davy Crockett, for all his virtues, was in no way fitted to be president of the United States. He had much native shrewdness, undoubted courage and his integrity was above question, but he did not know enough about governing or about national questions to be possible presidential timber. However, the big cities of the east received him with enthusiasm. Great crowds .turned out to hear him speak he was the guest of the city of Boston for a week, and Philadelphia gave him a silver mounted rifle, which the hnnlr-wnnrlsmnn fhrtstened Betsv and with which he gave exhibtions ol shooting, hitting a quarter of a dollar at fifty yards without difficulty. H? said he believed he'd be able to shoot the gun when he'd gotten accustomed i to it. Then Crockett went back to Tennessee and was defeated for congress i in his own district. His defeat was a real humiliation to him, and he al ! once made up his mind to remedj what seemed to him a calamity bj ? going further west, i It was Just at the time Texas Svas I winning its independence from Mexico, and the future Lone Star Stats , was the best place in America for exi citement. It was the last frontier ir ' those days, and by all odds the mosi 1 eventful one. So Crockett went t< I Texas. There is a curious old volume whict i purports to be an autobiography of the . famous hunter which tells many fan day Spirit And Wisdom Suggest SHIEDER'S While o ? Where You can Fim s past few years th aliday shoppers in of 1913 finds us the growing patr iu want at Shiede want, a visit here i T SHIEDER'S HJYING IS VERY t off makes the buy- yl/'vLs r ci up 11 um uo cinvi - w- . ?/mp TORE at your earllid that your Christ- K;. ; : sure. We have the tment?suitable for ttle tots on upward wSaj^^y T^y//, randmother who sit n,gpSy VflEtfflj im of the Yule-tide ^ Ml find the Gift that V3|iaA.vW flMf e to the SHIEDER JA^y^ yV : TODAY? ^WeMl be ? not a little amuse asure to young peo- w - enture. YouMI find *xH >oks for the smaller e of them copies of ine rainier s un. id at SHIEDER'S? t and at prices you >fJ3 Y nderfully rich poods Woman who hasn't I yV^h-MQ tune, or behind the ifts. If your friend VdhAj^ 3ur Gift one of our a big assortment in %\ MuM rd, and the Pens we Y"' The SHIEDER THE NY tastid things about his Journey to Texas and his experience after he got there. How he made his trip in company with ft "thimble rigger," or shell game man, an Indian, a bee hunter and a private who had been a member of Jean Lefltte's Barataria colony; how he pleaded with the thimble rigger to abandon hia evil mode of living and turn honest. And how, when the thimble rigger insisted that he didn't know any means of making an honest livelihood, and had failed at it time and again, Davy told him, "If you can't live like an honest man, you can at least die like a brave one." And the story goes on to tell how the thimble rigger did die like a brave man in the famous capture of the Alamo. Ult V y K_,L ULIVCV, I may uarc ntiucM these things down, and it is very possible that somebody else with an active imagination wrote them afterward. All we know for certain is that Crockett was one of the defenders of i r<x baking: ABSOLUT! Insures delicious and By the use of Roy* great many more ar | readily made at hor ! licious, and econor ! variety and attractr The'' Royal Bakei containing five receipts for all and cookery, fre< Baking Powder THE SAME IN ROCK HILL Rock Hill Residents Speak Out forth* Welfare of the Public. It is Just the same In Rock Hill as > here in Yorkville; our friends then ' speaK out in me same gmu, cainco , way as so many grateful Yorkvlll< , men and women have spoken In thes< | columns for years past. ; Mrs. B. F. Greer, Oakland Ave. , and Railroad Street., Rock Hill, S. C. says: "For years I suffered from kid > ney trouble. The pains across mj ; back were severe and I had dul I headaches and nervous spells. Th< kidney secretions also bothered m< and I knew I had kidney complaint I took different remedies and was al( so treated by doctors, but I did no get much relief until I used Doan'i Kidney Pills. They made my kldneyi - normal. I am pleased to again en r dorse Doan's Kidney Pills and con r firm all I have ever said about them.' Price 50c at all dealers. Don' i simply ask for a kidney remedy? . get Doan's Kidney Pills?the sami 4 that Mrs. Greer had. Foster-Mllburi ' Co., Props., Buffalo, N. Y. OPEN TO EVERYBODY It ought to be an easy matter fo } almost anybody to get one of thos< premiums offered for smaller club; i for The Enquirer. Tell your neigh ? bors what you are after, and asl ' them to help you get It. L. M. GRIST'S SONS. Is In The i s that You Shop At ur Stock is Unbroken i the Goods You Want is Store has steadi Yorkville and in better prepared th onage of this goo r's. If you have irill lioln vaii fn Ho rr in iivip j vu iv/ v?v EXTRJ We bow to nor COLOGNES, EX1 and these things i Ladies, especially, dainty Extracts. When it comes Wr 1 Please<l when he l^e only kln^ t0 S? STORE. You'll fl an(l 100s, and in t ities. Then, if he 'qtco that he l'ke3, r a variety of choice Calabash, and all CASE. These we an^ at Prlces t0 P ? XORRIS StSW'We have been I for years, and ha B&lVtQnbrands, but we ha VS301 ^ hnns that arp nl PWe have this in hi Pitchers, etc. Yoi it very moderate. the price you warn DER DRUG STO Gift Goods and ou DRUG STORE AL STORE the Alamo during Its eleven-day siege by Santa Anna's troops, that he killed a good many Mexicans with "Betsy" In that time, and that he died in the last savage fighting at the Alamo, March 6, when the Mexicans surged over the old adobe building and butchered the wornout pioneers. We knowthat Col. James Bowie, Inventor of the bowle knife, who lay in bed too feeble to stand upon his feet, killed three Mexicans at his beside before they finally killed him, that Crockett was one of the last six men alive, beating down his assailants with his clubbed rifle when they were too close for him to reload his gun and shoot any more. Some historians say that the six surrendered finally and were butchered a little later at Santa Anna's order; others that they never surrendered, but died with their backs against the wall, still fighting. From all we know of Davy Crockett, the last story seems more likely. rAT. I POWDER ELY PURE the most healthful food il Baking Powder a tides of food may be ne, all healthful, denical, adding much veness to the menu. r and Pastry Cook," hundred practical kinds of baking ;. Address Royal Co., New York. SUBSCRIBE FOR THE ENQUIRER LIBERAL PREMIUMS FOR CLUB9 MAKERS WHO RETURN NAMES. NOW IS THE TIME for Subscribers to THE ENQUIRER to Renew 3 their Subscriptions and for prospective > New Subscribers to get the benefit of { Club Rates. The price in clubs is > $1.75 for a Year, or $1.00 for Six 3 Months. We are offering Nine Competitive Premiums, with an aggregate value of , $326, to be given to the nine Clubmak, ers making the Nine Largest Clubs. Besides these Nine Competitive Prer mlums we are offering an attractive 1 list of smaller premiums, but includi lng good values for Clubs of from Two 5 I Names un up. Each Clubmaker gets full value for I all the work that he or she may do. 1 For full Instructions to Clubmakers 3 and specific details as to the various 3 premium offers, see the more extended advertisement being published from time to time, or write for information. Two names paid for constitute a Club and entitle the Clubmaker to a pre1 mium. New Subscribers whose names are 9 sent in previous to January 1, 1914, are 1 entitled to the paper until January 1, 1915 for the price of a year's subscrip_ tion. After January 1, 1914, New Annual Subscribers will receive the paper for a year from the date of entering r their names. s L. M. 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Then, if he is >'11 want a CIGAR or CIGARETTE are showing in a variety of styles lease. candies are better ? handling: Chocolates and Bonbons ve handled a number of different ive never had Chocolates and Bonlite so satisfactory as NORRIS'S. axes of all sizes, quarter pounds and /', and fancy packages, dainty enough .vhich there are hundreds in York ant the BEST, then make it a box DCOL.ATES OR BONBONS. - cut glass aplete without its Cut Glass Bowls, u'll find many elegant pieces of this HIEDER'S and in prices you'll find le a tip from us asy to select the Gift you want at t to pay if you'll come to the SHIERE?We are Specialists in buying r experience is at your command in this means BETTER SERVICE TO T SHIEDER'S FIRST. gIft | Headquarters BHBm8M88KmhHI8BB > n^B^UHB^HH Herbert N. Wright. Cumulative Acquisition Geo. M. Wright Herbert N. Wright J. A. Denholm ^ Pres. & Gen. Mgr. Vice Pres. &: Treas. Asst. Treas. WRIGHT WIRE CO. 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Few men are keen enough to make wise general investments. About ninety-nine out of every hundred men should use the greater part of their surplus in purchasing good life m insurance, for such investments never go back on a man. I am much pleased with the life insurance you have gotten for me, and I heartily commend your Company and your ? * ? ? ? .i.i office to tffe tavoraoie consideration 01 omer uusu.css uwn who desire safe, sane and profitable investments in a Com- 4 pany whose security is beyond question, and whose reputation for progressive liberalism and equal fairness to all, I am convinced, is unparalleled. Sincerely yours, From. Mr. Wright's Brother Mr. Geo. M. Wright, President and General Manager of the Wright Wire Company, and Mayor of the city of Worcester. Mass., A and a brother of Herbert K. Wright, also carries $100,000 Insurance In the MUTUAL BENEFIT. In writing to the General "4 Agent of the company about his Insurance, under date of March ^ 14, 1913, he says: "I want to express my appreciation of the ^ thorough manner in which you developed my enthusiasm for Life jj Insurance. Of the $400,000 carried on my life, all of which you wrote, $300,000 is payable to the Wright Wire Company, and $100,000 to my family. While all the companies selected for my insur- j ance are excellent companies, it is due to you to add that I reserved your company?the Mutual Benefit?for my family." The foregoing Is the testimony of disinterested witnesses who "looked before they leaped." It is evident from the positions they occupy that they are men of superior business ability and can be ' safely followed, even in so important a matter as that of selecting the best Life Insurance Company. The Mutual Benefit issues policies j on the lives of acceptable risks in any amount from $600 to $100,000, so the man who wants any amount up to the limit, can ill afford to ignore it when considering Life Insurance. I will be pleased to give any additional information desired at any time. :j SAM M. GRIST SPECIAL AGENT Special Clean Up Prices On Coats and Coat Suits 4s we Jo not want to carry otter a single ^ Coat or Coat Suit, we have marked the Price Down Exceedingly Low to close them oat at once. Now is the time to get yours. Coat Suits, Worth up to $12.50?Sale ' Price $8.48 | ^oat Suits, Worth up to $16.50?Sale ; v '-j} Price $13.98 ; Coat Suits, Worth up to $22.50?Sale f IT I ICC f'J'y Coat Suits, Worth up to $27.50?Sale ^ Price $19-75 I Ladies' $4.00 Long Black Coats?Sale Price $3.98 Ladies' $6.00 Long Black Coats?Sale Price $3-98 Ladies' $8.50 3-4 Length Coats?Sale Price $4.98 Ladies' $12.50 Coats, "Beauties"?Sale $ Price $8.75 |i Ladies' $15.00 Coats?Sale Price $11.95 Ladies' $18.50 Coats?Sale Price $13-95 , ' (&Q| Ladies' $25.00 Coats?Sale Price $19.75 i ' ' 8 * 1 ]H Ladies' $4.00 Black and Blue Skirts? ; [L Sale Price ' $2.98 J ; ll 1 LU Ladies' $5.00 Black and Blue Skirts? \ | I Sale Price $3.98 ,i 11 Ladies' $6.50 Black and Blue Skirts? I j i (1 '\ Sale Price $4.98 I JjSQlj ~ jgJir These prices mean a saving of 25 per cent ? ^5^ and in some instances 50 per cent; as we ^ - > buy cheap and do not mark up to leave a jj srfYlmargin for cut price sale?everything mark- % yed in plain figures. m* $9 j KIRKPATRick- BELK CO. , The Big Store With The Big Stock !