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ARE WOMi Dorothy Dix in ?STe^ An JEcglioh pajjer hae recently been devoting much apace to the disoue eion of the question of Whether yeo men are stingy or' not, and unfortu nately, 'tbo consensus of opinion seems to be that, in addition to her other and manifest faults, when it oome? to money matters sue |a mesf'o. Various things are got forth in substantiation of this theory, as, fo* instanoe, Ro man's behavior at the bargain coun ter, her inability to buy anything without first trying to beat down tbo price, the,, adamantine attitude she assumes about giving money arid soon. Every woman who reads this will feel like entering a vigorous protest against such an unjust accusation, and will deoy the charge in toto. Women are not stingy and if, as a Bex, we are less free with our money and more given to a cheeseparing policy than men, it is for the very sufficient reason that we have, loss money to spend. Man,, as a m?nerai thing, U the money earner. Ho carries the poeketbock, and may do as he pleases with his own, without giving anjaf ccunfc to any one. -Vornan seldom has any money of whioh she has abso lute control. What is given her for housekeeping, for clothes and neces sary C?p?uac? ?s (ho very ieast with which the desired and expected re sults oon bo accomplished, and she must needs lock HI to every cent and see that she gets'the worth of her money. It is this neceosity that makes her the victim of the bargain counter* and tbo trading stamp, and the fakira who sell make-believe goods, where you get something for nothing. She ba&< literally nothing ^io ^blow in" on things that are a 'mere temporary gratification of tbo moment. * Ab a matter, of'fact, women are not expected to spend money on purely personal indulgences, and so it seems doubly hard for them to be accused of stingiriess. A man thinks nothing of ordering a < lunoh that will cost a dollar or two. His wife may be jnat as hungry, and would enjoy it just as *sA? does, but she hesitates be-, greats herself to a glass of laoda. No intelligent female \. ?h'hankers for oream puffs and ^s so many seenii to suppose. |n simply order them' because satisfying -*and 1 cheap, and jotbeoause of atinginesB, but.be !}t was all they felt like they (afford. If any woman Bpent as i money on the gratification of ? ,?y individual tasto as a man does Mgare, she would be held up as a 4': ing to young men about to^com matriuiony. Nobody, would speak er osa liberal woman. They would $he was recklessly, ruinously ex*. Tragant. it cannot be denied that men and . imen look at money from' different , ?ints of view, and that men do spend itore freely than women. Take the \toatter ;.of treating, for instance,. ^5. fnau feels that he^ must treat his friends and set up the dn>ka,' or the veigars, even though he is behind with this rent and owes the butcher, the .}baker and the caridl.eBtiok-makor. Ho ;sisst-ds ii w jijuinia?n h in obarno ter jof liberality, and so it often happens ?j??it he ?b generous before he is just Jot honest.. IIa will give though ho will never' pay. A woman reverses the procees* She will pay, even if ?he never given, Col. Bluster always heads ^ho list of all the Boon?oolo 0ha cpritiea in townj ho is a.liberal jQiao, f- ? throws a ?5 bill down on the b invites all the loafers preseu _ jido up and take a drink^ he contributes to the campaign fuhdv and span d a money 1 i k<j water to el?l?t his oftudidftto from the 'stcenth ward, even if the family haB to go on suort I raiions ondinch and pinch to pay for Vit. Mrs. Col, B?uator Is accounted a t cloua woman, she takea_ho 8tocjk.Jp. Wtjfc. liberality. An unpaid bill isfto per like ? nightmare; Mrs. Jone* might ^o^iho^t?b^ ! if chs . vrslied for her tov ti?$ white / Mary -needed a ?ew frock or Jotoy \?abk?d shoes, and if" a candidate's ;\el??$ian to office in a wora&&*8 e?ub jdepoaded on her friends p?uing .tip,- B??mey A?p* .it,c;. she 'wonjdvoefejr get into Che president's chair in.*W mUh .. y i) Jfi* it*$k of ,^?^an?tter.. is tt? . ?(|l?|;^?t?tf^ , pMth?.-, H% asve?,, sejrleets to- seVd; his h?steas or h'onbbci":to; 'ft?^i?ff?j&mi'tdrles' ;^hea> o? the Bin STINGY. sr Orleans iPicayune. some day we hear that in his expan sive w*y uf doing things the open hearted young man has embraced tho contents of his employers' qash drawer, and is a fugitive from iustice, and then we wonder if there are not time's when honesty is as good as liberality. When it conies to real generosity? the generosity that means self -denial and self-sacrifice?tho very finest flower of it may be ftfuud among wo men. A woman may insist on having the worth of her money, she may re? fuse to treat or pay the way of those who are perfectly able to pay for themselves, but when - it comes to a question of real want her hand is the first, and quickest to give. It is the mito? that women save by scrimp ing hero and pinching there that build the churches and sustain the charities and send missionaries to the heathen. ?moog the women against whom this charge is of tones t brought up is tbo woman who keeps a boarding house. Mrs. SlimdietVstinginess has beep the subject of the cheap, wits for{ generations, who have rung the changes on ancient butter and the centipede legs of tho boarding house ohioken ad unueeoin. We have aeon her pathetic striving held up to ridi cule, her economies made mean and sordid, but no one has said anything about the other side of the question? of tho hundred and hundred of times when she has given shelter and homo to poor girls out of work, and of tho weeks and months she has let a board bill run along for some young fellow who ha* lost a job, ^and who; but for her; would have neither food nor shelter. No ono whose fate has not takf/a them among such people has any idea of/ the extent of the generosity-?the generosity that does opt eve*.' meet the poor reward of thank?that such women bestow. It is given out" of poverty, and hard work, and bitter striving, and ono girl so kept off tho street,/og? man saved from tramping or desperation, is more reg! generosity and wo ore than a lino of colleges and chari table institutions built from hereto tho Canadian line. Behind the apparent stinginess of many a woman lies a pathetic little story that the world never knows. Sometimes she is a well-to-do woman who is cloaking her husband's miser liness to her.. Sometimes we ceo her niggardly; and the servantB tell /nV taloa of pinohing aud scrimping, and we cannot know that she is heroioal-. iy standing/lik'e a lonely and deserted sentinel, over wretched and ruined fortunes,. trying to keep up appear ancos until the girls arc married or the boys in business. It is to . his mother's so-called stinginess that j mioy a poor boy owes his college edu cation and hie* career in life. His fal her hadn't the courage not to be lit ara?, because he couldn't afford it. Ho must bolocg langes and pay his pa :t for expensive floral designs when "Pi t Dobian died, and cCntribr^o to the b? id when some idiot suggested pre? I se iting a modal to the leader. He j.'Wi ^esteemed tho sonLor;generosity, anfl the neighborhood pitied jiim '"for hafiog a stingy wife. "They do say she oan make fiye pies put of three blackberries/.' they whispered and tittered .behind her baok. But ?he weot onmovod on her way. She stint ed the coffee here and; saved on tho sugar; there, and practiced aV thous and heart-breaking ecoDomioo, but she gave hoi* boy an education ' and a start [ in life. Stingy? No! it ia an unfounded charge. Women are careful of money; they are just with it, and when there ;i s need j't hey are )\be ral. Vi .''To .What Base Uses." \\ well-known artist was onoo en . gag ed upon a Sacr?d piot?re? > ? very I ha] dfeome old model named ?otfth eat fo? tua .u??? 6b3t;; Mafk>^r Artist | an< rapdo? beoame'gi-eat fr^ndiJ, but ' wb|othe,plcturo ;>w*4 finished the^ lost sigbt^ pae another. ,Tfae Chris tiaijKudeavpr World telle how they af^praydimet: \ Qoe day th? artist, wandering about. tho| ?gbbl?g?^a? Gardens; c*me upon [his pld model With a broom in.iMfc |ha^d>"ioo??^ery' diseonso?at*. ' & $ji?? ja^Jy^ !!ar^t|.^oa;.iden't ?ook very cherry; doing now?" ' . doin' muob, si?y ?ad 'm engaged in th>ese & claantQ' bout the hew| ^bfeai^a;; .?ice- ; 'o?e^pitoi$fc JcV^he'tw^ye apostles, ain't it, 4& isyer; |h>eat^4i0.htsb ? preUy iaaj&d if bei home Women Mast Work. "Just why President Roosevelt should have confided to Cqngresr, his personal conviction that married wo men should not be permitted to work in fsotories it is in> possible to b?y,r | says the Charleston News and Cou rier. There are some who are unable j to Bee or believe that it is any of President Roosevelt's business. The News and Courier is one of these. A \ man with a fortune and a salary of 950,000 a year is not hardly a fit judge to declare that an industrious woman, without anything but her health and willingness to earn her living, shall bo barred out of any respectable lino of ernployin?G'c.. She has as much right to work in a factory as Mr. Roopovolt has to be President of the United States. It would be much better, perhaps, to provide a husband of the right sort and a better place for her; but until these "academics," of whom Mr.; Roosevelt himself has bo often complained oan provide, or at least point to something better than faoiory work, they should certainly bo denied the right to regulate unfortunate toil ers, male or female, who mutt toil, out of their only opportunity to make their way in a very selfish ^orld. As the News and Courier adds, the President doubtless had in mind his well-known opposition to race suicide. It would, too, bo a glorious thing if ?very mother, or possible mother, in the land oould be relieved of the ne cessity of making a living for herself or for anybody else. >*ut the obsta cles in the way of bringing this mil lennial oondition of affairs to pass arc numerous and obvious. In the t rsfc place, the married women themselves :ght object. . T?cli our. is just now making a gallant struggle for emanci pation from tho industrial tyranny to whioh it has been long subjected. Freedom of endeavor it alleges to bo requisite to success in tho pursuit of happiness. "If matrimony is to bo mado a bar to a woman's employment in a factory, why should in not still furthor curtail tho opportunities open to her energy and enterprise? Who .'may t wisely draw the line between the labor that a married woman may and may not do without hindrance or detriment? Tho present Congress assembled- at'Wash ington gives evidence of numbering among its members many willing workers. Soino of these gentlemen htve shown a disposition to ejaeix a verbal lance in behalf of dec.tf*/lly queer legislative vagaries, but it is questionable whether the President has not at. last discovered one that will daunt even them. In any event, we shall wait with impatience to see what the married women of the coun try will have to say about ft should serious effort be made to limit by stat ute the avocations that are open to them." * ?? ../Woman was for smoy dark-' ages man's slave. As far ob the masou?iue tyrant was able to go he went, woman's charma leading at last to a rivalry amongst the men, of which she was not slow to take advantage. In some countries the long-bearded and poly gamous tyrant was actually worship: pod by his scores of concubines. The native American . en joyed himself hunting and fighting, whil? th? squaw tilled tho corn, ground it into meal and made it into cakes for her brave, who lorded It over her. Tho enlargement of woman's gphoro has been gradual until recont years, during whichxsbe his proved herself roan's formidable rival in many new lines. Tho News ia inclined to suspect that women have invaded oertaiu lines which might have been better to leave alone, but, speaking generally, liberty is woman's means of avoiding slavery, just as it is man's means of avoiding it, and tho change by whioh woman's sphere has been greatly enlarged is one of tho most important and satis factory results that the civilization of the race bas worked out up to this time. Aside, however, from all differences of opinian us to whether woman should enjoy just as many rights and chanocs as ber former lord and master enjoys, as to whether she is not really entitled to more rights rather than fawer rights on aooount of her sex, we arc confron ted by a condition rather than by a mere theory. Tho oondition is known of all men to exist. There arc thou sands of good women in Washington and in every other city, some of them with working husbands, who must toil in exacting and disagreeable lines of labor in order to secure for thorn* selves and those dependent upon them, the necessaries of life. "Acad emics" may spin fine theories, reform ers may wail over statistics and proud daduies, in their prime, with plenty of money aud power may pro pose airy schemes, but these do not meet the conditions -or ohango tho facts. Seeing that the women are on earth, that they must work and even drudge, the obvious duty of those who would help, rather than hinder, them iB to provide easier and better . oppor tunities for tbem before taking away the poor opportunities those unfor tunates arc now bravely able to find. If it is impossiblo to provide better opportunities, then it is both fuoiish and cruel to talk about turning women out of factories and mills. If there are those who would do this they should at least be required to produce a good husband or some better em ployment for every voteless unfortu nate whom it is proposed to rob of evon the ono poor opportunity she now enjoys.?Galveston News. . She Really Was Younger. "Society those days is exactly like* the Mississippi river," says an elderly mau, whose name appears in tho con gressional directory. "A pilot may think he knows the river on the down trip, but when he comes up the next week he has to learn shoals and snags and set of ourreut all over again. I met a man not long ago whom I hadn't seen for two . years. I. knew him slightly, and I had met his wife onoe or twice. He invited me to dine with him, and I went. My memory for faces is not good, but I thought the, wife looked younger than I recalled her. After dinner I said to the man: ' " 'Your wife positively looks ten years younger than she did when I last saw her.' He smiled in an odd way. "She ib,* he said. "I took, it for idle flattery, but it wasn't, it was fact. Tho man had been divorced and remarried since I had seen them last." . - -ni-* ?,?.-1 ?- A piece of a Woman's mind often disturbs a man's piece of mind. ? A rieh father is too often a young man's excuse for being worthless. ?-No young man can surprise a girl by kissing her; he only thinks he can. Know Y?ur Business. How many retail merchants iu the South are really doing this? Do you koep posted as to tho market? Do you keep posted as to your own business? There arc quite a number of good trado papers which will help you to keep posted on the market condition? in a general way. Thon you must give some time and attention to find* ing out tho market on the particular Hue of goods you are handling. This you can do without any great effort and it certainly is worth the time. You must buy goods right these days of close competition if you are going to make the success o! your business you should. Every retail dealer should 1 tako at least one trado journal and read it closely. Note the following from a trade journal: And again how many dealers really know their own business? Havo you got it systematized so you can tell oaoh day ju,st what you are doing? Not guessing at it but knowing. An drew Carnegie, it is said, spent $S0, 000,000 annually when ho was actively eugaged in business to know at any and all times just what he v :\s doing. Results show that it was worth it to him. Can you not afford to spend some money to know tho same things about your business? How did your business of yesterday compare-with tho business of the day .before? Tho business of this month with same month last year? The business of this year up Lo the pres ent timo compared with last year for the same period? How much is it costing you per month or per $1,000 gross sales to oonduot your business? How much is your Ions on bad dob tu? These am*, hundreds of other questions can always be answered promptly if you havo your business properly sys tematized. You may say that to do those things will take moro timo than you oan spare. You can well afford to get the extra help necessary to do this. In this couneotion it is well to state right here that a great many business men load themselves down with*details so that thoy do not have any timo for anything ol.se. Get clerks to look af ter the detail part of it. Give your timo and thoughts to the real conduct ! of your business. No business ever j made muoh of a success unless there was someone at tho head of it to think*. The first of the year is always a time for changes. If you have boon vOQu?vti?g your business in a loose, unsatisfactory way, start in with the new year to run it right. Give it plenty of thought and work. If you will do this for ono year the results will 'ourpriso even yourself.?Carolina Morohant. a ' m / ? A thing is generally fashionable because it is expensive, and expensive becauso it is fashionable. ?- Only a fool man will refuse to laugh at his wife's jokes. ? When a wise man argues with a woman ho says nothing. ? The average man opons an ao count with you when he does you a favor. ? Many a woman loBes out in try ing to make hor husband's will her won't. ? Experience would probably fail as a teacher in a correspondence aohool; . y The Gre?f Blood Purifier. * * ?APT. O. T. A9.LEK, Mexico, Mo. t?wycr, Soldier, Legislator, Lecturer. Mexico, Mo., Aug. 25, 1908. I knew Philip Foerg, Of Princeton, Ky., for thirty years; He was *ny neighbor and friend. 1 knew that he originated and, after many years of per sistent effort, perfected "Fb?rg's Remedy.*?... So highly did I appreciate it as a perfect and complete remedy for all kinds atid degrees of bipod impurities that I endeavored* twenty years or. more ago, to j organise a joint-stock company to place this wonderful '/remedy on the world's market. Mr. Foerg Very properly declined to surrender the formula for making the remedy unless a sufficient amount of paid-up stock was raised, etc., and this ! failed to do. ?Then Mr, Foerg himself, in a limited way, made and sold it for twenty years before bis death. By his will he left the formula for making this remedy to Mr. Hugh Mayes, of Princeton, Ky., now Secretary antj Treasurer of "The Foerg Remedy .Company,'' Evej?sville, Ind. I / know it to be a fact that Mr. Foerg for twenty years offered $1^000 spot cash Che was amply al , a to make veucb an offer) for any case based on blood immlri'y ' which ?is remedy" won!d not cttre, and 1 know mat he was often challenged to the contest, and he never loft a case. C. T, AULEN. WI primary, constitutional the above ialorntatioa before yoo, if yon go on suffering from the curse of poisoned blood, either pria ?r a* a "forait ?f mercurial treatment; don't rajl>if?(?;ifut ?iinplybl?ine yourself, for hereis a cure-rabsolute and sure. Tainted blood manifests itself in the form of Scrofula, Eczema, Rheumatic Fains, Stiff or Swollen Joints, Eruptions or Copper-colored Spots on the J?ar,e or Body, Little Uiccrs in the Month or on the Tongue, Soro Throat, Swollen Tonsils;'Falling oat of the Hair or Eyebrows, and finally a Leprous-Like Decay of the Flesh and Bones. If yon have aay one of these symptoms don't delay tilj too late, but gt to your druggist and get a bottle of " FOERG'S REMEDY, The Great Blood Purifier ALL, DftUfiGiSTS QUAKANTi?E IT . If your druggist does not hahdJo this remedy sct>d os $1.00 for one bottle or $5.00 for tlx bottles, aiki ateofat* guarantee. Alt packages sent in plain, wrappers. AH oojre?p6Mftrtfa strictly coorldeatiaL > r I-O?RQ Kf?W?E?Y CO.? ? - EVAN8VILLE, INl> ^^^?? Ys Ip^r! tf\ lis Ul G/ Good, Flat Land, in good state of cultivation and well im proved. Wanted to Sell. 132 acre?, Hall Township?40 acrea in bottom lauds that will yield 100C5 bu&hels corn. Fair improvement. 148 acre?, Savannah Township, known as 'Evergreen place. Well im proved, good orchard. 84 acres, Hopewell Township. Tenant house, barn, &o. 45 acres W cultivation, balance woods and old fields. 152 acres, Rock Mills Township. Price $1200. OGj acres, Broadway Township. Well improved. Price 82500* 87J acres, Varennes Township?improved. 200 acres, Fork Township. JOS. J. FRET WELL, ANDERSON, S. Cr fit HCAI TU AND VSTAUW aji'/a|. H m BfaB^PS Ban X3n. MOTT'ffl ** mmim mm mm rsrxnxfvsux^ipsrEs x>ixjXiS Tho groat remedy tor nervous prostration and all diseases of tho generating organs ot either box, such as Nervous ProRtration, Fallingor Lost Manhood,. Impotency, Nightly Emissions, Youthful Errors, Mental Worry, excessive use of Tobacco or Opium, which load to Consumption and ItiRnmty. With every ACTED ItQIUG 85 order wo guarantee to euro or refund tho money. Sold at 91.00 por box. flrjCri UOltl?i o poxos for 85.00. OH. MOT'ff'S C'UliirUCAflj CO., "' Cleveland* Ohio* FOR SALE BY EVANS 3*11 A.It91 ACY. D. S. VANDIVER. E. P. VANDIVER.. VANDIVER BROS. Q-ene^al Merchants. COME TO. SEE USi On anything in our line and we will make PRICES SPECIALLY INTER ESTING. We have a limited amount of? Sound, "Cheap Flour for Hog Feed, At 83.50 per barrel. Yours for Trade, VANDIVER BROS*. Flooring, Ceiling, / Siding, Framing, Shingles, Lime, Cement, Lathes, . Brick, Doors, Sash, Blinds, Mantels, t Turned and Scroll Work, Devoe's Faint, Lead, Oil, Turpentine, Hard Oil, Glass, Putty, Etc. EVERYTHING IMPORTANT ! INVESTIGATE when te. need of any kind of? BUILDING MATERIAL. See me. If I don't sell youv 111 make the other fellow* ?s THE BUILDER.I sell you right. "W- Xj- BRISS?Y ANDERSON, S. C. < 0 i Hi H > ?g3 O S * m c p g * S ? g 2 so o o 3 s ? 3. This Establishment has been Selling IN ANDERSON for more than forty years. Baring all that time competitorst\ have come and gone, bet we have remained right here We have always sold >. t Cheaper than any others, and during those long years we have not had one dis?--' satisfied oustomcr. Mistakes will sometimes occur, and if at any time we*> found that a customer was dissatisfied we did not rest until we had made him satisfied. This policy, rigidly adhered to, has made us friends, true ana last- . ing, and we can say with pride, but without boasting, that we have the eoo? dpnpe of tho people of this section. We h?ve a larger Stock of Goods this season than wo have ever had, and we pledge yoa oar word that We have never ' sold Furniture at as olos^.^ margin of profit as wo are doing upw. This ie - pjtOten by the fact that wo 'are selling Furniture not only all over Anderson County but in every Town in the Piedmont seotion. Come and see us., Your v. parents saved mone? by buying from no, and you and your children can save/ money by buying 1ore too. We carry EVERYTHING in tho Furniture limv C. F. TOLLY & SOW, Depot Strest The Old Reliable.Furniture.Bealor? MOVED! .. s WE have moved our Shonand office below Peoples' Bank, in front oi* Mr. J, J. Fretwell'sStables. We respectfully aak all our friends that need. any Roofing done, or any kind of Repair work^ Engine Stacks, Evapor-4 or any kind of Tin or Gravel Roofing to call it promptly sod in befit^anner.