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Dr. Cromer at Buffalo. The Luther League Review for October, together with a fine half tone cut of Dr. Geo. B. Cromer, has the following to say of the address which he delivered before the con vention of the Luther Leagu, of America at its meeting in Buffalo some time ago: Mr.'George B. Cromer, LL. D., for mer president of Newberry college, delivered an address on "Some Car dinal Points." Dr. Cromer's humor at the beginning of his address was much enjoyed. To his subject he spoke in part as follows: In the church where you are hold ing your sessions are banners re cording a marvellous history of "day before yesterday," "yesterday" and "today." What of tomorrow? A pastor down in South Carolina-not a Lutheran pastor--tells a story of his baptizing some regroes. To make sure that the sacrament should be administer:d in an orderly manner he had the candidates meet him on the preceding Saturday for a re hearsal. "Now," he said, pointing to the first boy, "when I ask you to morrow what your name is, you must give me your first name. Suppose you were to ask my name, I would ay 'John Henry,' because that is my first name. And tomorrow you must all give me your first names just as I have given you mine. So the next day, when I asked the first boy his name, he said 'My name is John Henry.' I thought it rather strange that he should have my name, but I did not question it and went on to the next, who also gave his name as 'John Henry.' And when the third boy gave the same name I began to think something was wrong. Just then Deacon Jones came tip-toeing up to me and said, 'Pastor, that boy's name is not John Henr.y; his name is Silas ever since he was born.' And I said, 'It might have been Silas, but it's John Henry now, and what's more, he's got to live up to it.' " So I suggest to you Leaguers, don't forget that your name is "Lutheran" and that you must live up to it. The first cardinal point I will men tion, without reference to their im portance in the ord-r in which I name them, is knowledge. First, we must know why we are Lutherans, what our Church holds, what it sets apart, distinctively, from other de nominations. You should know what our church is doing. What 'do you know about the United Synod of the south? .Your president said this evening that we are spread over a great deal of territory and are a world power. We are, and in places we are spread very thin. I thought of the boy whose mother sent him out to set an old hen and who protested that he put 5o eggs under the one hen. The boy explained, "I just wanted to see the old thing spread herself." Knowledge of one another -encourages fellowship and sympathy. This brings us to our second cardinal point, which is organization. The church today is groping after methods because it realizes that in some way it has failed to reach the people. We need organizations for teaching others and for actual service in the field. We need sympathetic fellowship and co-operation in the service of the Master. Another cardinal point is loyalty loyalty to an ideal. An ideal is an idea incarnate. We must put relig ion into the people of our country somehow. We complain of lawless ness. What are we Lutheran people doing to remove it ? We must be gin with the young people, teaching them religion, righteousness and vir tue. The agnostic Professor Hux ley admitted that if he were forced to choose for his son between two col leges, one of which gave religious in struction and the other did not, he would choose the former, for, he said, under the conditions existing then he did no: see 'how the relig ious feeling, which is the essential basis of righteousness, is to be kept uip without the use of the B'ible." We are slow down sonth. but I do not know but that in somre things we are a good examiple for you. For instance, down there we still believe that the Bible is the Word of God. We don't know any better, and may be it is better for us that we don't know any better. My final message is, expect big tings We vaunt ourselves on the bigness of our country. We have gotten into the habit of reckoning everything by the dollar and the yard stick and the peck measure. We talk about success with your eyes shut. We are not able to see into the success of the future. You remember when the glory of Rome blazed as sunlight to the very banks of the Ganges and Euphrates and there was such pride in learning and culture in Greece? And then do you remember a Jew, a despised member of a despised race, with an ideal gathering a handful of fishermen and walking up and down the dusty ways of Palestine. misunderstood and un appreciated by even His own friends and followers on His way to Calvary? You remember how His enemies wagged their heads and said, "Come down, if you can, and we will believe you," and they buried Him that Fri day, and then those Jews went home content? Do you remember it? Then came the glorious dawn of Easter morning. It is the wonder of the ages. Let us Lutherans whenever we may be rallying to the cause of this bless ed Church of Reformation, apprecia ting the heritage handed down to us, go forward to make conquest of the earth. Ten Thousand Flowers. The most insiring floricultiral idea of the last quai m:r of a century is the naturalizing of flowers by the thousands in situations where LIcy need absolutely no care after plant ing. It is the easiest kind of gar dening, for there is no weeding, wat ering, hoeing, staking or tying. It is the most artistic form of garden ing, because the flowers fit perfectly into the landscape. It is the most effective kind of gardening, because nothing can surpass in beauty a con tinuous sheet of flowers all of the same variety. (No matter how num erous they may be, these wildings never seem gaudy or vulgar.) And, finally, it is the least expensive way of getting hosts of flowers-flowers like the stars of the Milky Way in multitude. A thousand narcissus bulbs. The thought takes one's breath away; yet a thousand bulbs of the poet's narcissus costs only $5 --a mere nothing compared with the vision of loveliness which it makes possible. The general tendency on transat !antic liners has been to make travel nore expensive for the rich and cheaper for the poor. One of the 13remen steamers has a suite of rooms costing $2,000 a passage. A concession has been granted to the "Empress del Ferrocarril Oesta Kde Buenoe Aires" to extend two of its lines of railway about 50 miles each. All materials and machinery for building and equipping these new roads will be granted entry free ct duty, provided such articles are man ufactured in Argentina. In a row between Greeks and Bul garians on Sunday twenty of the latter were killed. The government has made several arrests. A WONDERFUL SAVING. The largest Methodist church in Georgia calculated to use over one hundred gallons of the usual kind of mixed paint in painting their church. rhey used only 32 gallons of the Longman & Martinez Paint mixed with 24 gallons of linseed oil. Actuai cost of paint made was less than $1.20 per gallon. Saved over eighty ($8o.o0) dollars in paint, and got a big donation be sides EVERY CHURCH will be given a liberal quantity whenever they paint. Many houses are well painted with four gallons of L. & M. and three gai lons of linseed oil mixed therewith. Wears and covers like gold. These celebrated paints are ,Id by the Newberry Hdwve. Co. To EectKeeper to County Home. ThEeCoty Commissio~ners will elet aKeeerof the County Home fortheensingyear at their meeting on Saturday. October 29, 1904. Applications may be filed with the undersigned or the clerk of the board, J. B. Hunter, Esq. 3. M. Schumpert. County Supervisor. CASI Still With the Ni wider, gre No wonder every hour counters are packed linas. The news has: Selling in dead earnes the sidewalk every m lined from front to ba( to reap the golden har You have no old, carri newest, the kind the Ic express engine that bring the newest here floor to ceiling. Get ir Cheapest Dry Goods . and compare. The Cc DRESS GOODS. They can match it only in colors but our Prices are always cheaper. Over roo feet of Shelving Packe( and Jammed with The Finest of th Fine. 300 Pieces fine Dress Goods, goo' and Wide, in Plaid Stripes, Mixtur Overchecks, Granite wears serges etc., all 60, 70, 8o and some Dolla kind in This Mammoth Pile. We sa: choice one Week 45C per yard. BROAD CLOTH. The good kind, shrunk and spong ed, West of England make, in all th Shades, also Black, worth and sol( all over Dixie at $1.25 and .$1.50 yard. We say Cash Store's Pric 95c per yard. Somethihg you can't afford to miss 15 Pieces Black and Blue 54 incl Broadcloth, worth goc to $.oo pe yard. The Cash Store Price, on week 48c. 50 Pieces Blue, Brown, Grey, Ta: and Black shrunk Flannels, full 5 inches wide, and worth 75 per yarc Our WVeek's Price only 45c. xoo Pieces fine Suiting worth u: to $3.00 per yard. For Week's sell ing we make choice the yard 98c. Some may show you the colors, bu none will match our Prices. WAISTINGS, . WAISTINGS The White Sattine. 'Tis New Laundries well and wears long, 4 inches wide, and 12c per yard. 10o Pieces fine French Flanne: worth and sold everywhere at 85 per yard, only one week at the Cas: Store's Price 45c per yard. Flannels, the 4oc and 5oc kind, 29 a yard. Meet your Ft day at N CA.S RN. The Southern Railway. In addition to regular trains th Southern Railway will operate specia trains Wednesday, October 26th an Thursday, October 27th, to Columbi account South Carolina State Fail Train passing Newberry at 8:20; mi., returning leave Columbia 6:30 1 if. - Tickets on sale October 241h t 27th inclusive with returr; limit Oc tober 30th. The fare is $2.05 for the round trir which includes one admission to Fai grounds. J. P. Sheely, Agt. S. Ry. Co. Grae(er L aws Spreadin and Values ater and grea, and minute in the day I with Bargain Hunters f 5pread and the sale is on .t. Now's the time. Com inute in the day and you :k. Have you been in linE vest of fine merchandise ed-over goods offered you >oms are working on to dc pushes its cow-catcher ; for you. The store bristli -to the push, they are all tore. There's just one ish Store sells them cheal Don't waste time looking else where, but come to Headquarters. The Cash Store always undersells. CAPES, JACKETS AND FURS. Over Fifteen Hundred Dollars I worth to get your pocket book and ! figure suited with. Don't think of buying before you see The Cash r Store's Line, The Greatest in All I Newberry! BLANKET SALE GOES MERRI- r LY ON. 2 Cases of those heavy, Grey, all wool, North Carolina Blankets a received today. r 200 Pair Good Blankets 85c per pair. 300 Pair Good Blankets 98c per pair. r Ask to see these three numbers. 200 Pair Good Blankets $1.24 per pair. .269 Pair in our house today; all wool, full sizes and correct weight. Medicated Blankets worth $4.50 per pair. Long as they last the Price will be $2.69. Don't Pack the store before 1o o'clock. t LISTEN-UNDERWEAR AT UN DER PRICES. , 1,ooo Men's Heavy Undershirts 2ligc Each 1,000 Men's Heavy Undershirts 38c ,cach. : .ooo Men's Heavy Undershirts 47c i 'nach. Ladies and Children's Underweai if every description Cheaper This Week. -iends and Nei~ ewberry's Unc Store, 'tis the H STI C ALDM WLL, M( HAMS Not those mentic but a fresh lot juo Kingans Relia Kingans Port! Kingans Drie< Try our Pinac DAVENPORT & Phne 110. RE'S aIe! x wider and ,rowing ter, he Cash Store's retail rom all over the Caro in Fine Dress Goods e to-day. Pass along will find our counters ? If not, 'tis up to you housed here for you. here, only the world's Lte, Every freight and long our two depots as with bargains from buying at Newberry's rhe Cash Store. Read )er. )UTINGS, JEANS, RED AND WHITE FLANNELS. 2 Cases Short Length Outing at rOU CAN'T MATCH IT. 25 Rolls Good Heavy Jerseys at '3c a yard. 50 Bolts Good All Wool Flannel, Zed, at 15c per yard. 200 Pieces fine Fle.:ed Black Flan tel, 15c kind, Ioc per yard. Values growing GREATER every ninute in the day. Be in tine, Come .nd Bring your family. To Newber y's Greatest Dress Goods Sale. 1,ooo Baby Caps in Silk and Woof., Ul Wool. All colors piled on :ounter at igc each. iOSIERY HOSIERY. I,ooo Pairs Ladies Black Hose Ehis Week 5c per pair. Every weight in Children's Hose tsk to see the Crow Black Hose 'Ve sell at 8 1-3c a pair, only 6 pairs o a customer. I.ooo Extra Large Marseilles Weave Quilts, for this Week's sell ng 98c cach. 1,ooo Sheets. full size, 48c, each. i.ooo Pillow Cases, this Week 12e ach. A Wagon Load of Towel Bargains, ugsville Sure Enough.q Enough Fine Rugs, if Tied, end to nd, you could walk g Prosperity. The best Rug you eV r heard efs elling today at 98c. -. hbors every lerselling ilager. AGAIN. mned heretofore at reCeived. LbIe. a rs. i Beef Hams. Ii Flour. SCAVENAUGII Main Street.