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* THE IDLEI. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * In my last I said something about the dignity of labor and how I had not much use for the drone and I don't believe he has any place in the economy of nature. I believe there is something -here for each one of us to do and only the man, or the woman either for that matter, who is capable of doing the little -things of life and who does them well may ever expect to do great things. In fact we should do what ever we do, however humble, as if it were of the most importance and we should do it well. Whoever gives a cup of cold water in His name will have his reward. It is the ser vice and the spirit in which it is rendered that counts. The man who does something or thinks he has and then put his hands in his vest and rears back his head. and tells -ou he did it will never do great things. We should all serve our fellowma,,,P and render that service in humility and in His name. -0 I read with a great deal of in terest the farewell address of Gen. James Gordon to the United States Senate after a service in that body of only sixty days. Somebody said it was as notable an address as the farewell address of George Wash ington. I became very much inter ested in Gen. Gordon and I -have read everything about him that I have seen. At one time he was a very wealthy man and I like his philosophy. He is now 7,, tall, ac-' tive and kindly. It is said that money has no attraction for him unless it is to make other peoplee happy. Just think what a good world we would have if more of our rith men entertained that idea of -the value of money. Some people seem to have happi.nss in the sim ple having of money and the getting of more money with no conception of the ability to make others happy and really I don't believe they are happy themselves for according to my idea no one can be really happy except in the making of some one else happy. That is the reason Gen. Gordon is abie to say, and to say truhtfully, "I am a happy ma.'' He is 'happy because he eon .tributes to the happiness of others. -0 You will -remember that in his farewell address he is quoted as say ing, having referenice to a bitter speech ma.de a few days before by Senator Heyburn, which was teem ing with hate: "I .never let hate get into my heart so as to make me u-nhappy.'' "'I love everybody. That is the reason I have lived and kept young, and retained my youth and beauty while you 'have gotten old and ugly-so~me of you.'' That's the point. Talk about evangelizing the world ino this generation and raising money for missions, the first thing you want to do is to get hate ou*tiof the heart and plant in its stead love for all mak'md, not only that portion of mankind away off in China, and 'Japan and Africa, but mankind right at home, just across the street from you, who.se house adjoins your house, who goes to the same church with you. Love *him, 'help him to a higher a'nd bet ter life. Say ki.nd things about 'him. Sympathize with him in his strug gles and his sorrows. Rejoice w.ith him in his successes. Show your love by outward manifestations,. Get that old hate ou,t of your heart and then there will be no trouble to evan gelize the world. And youi ean't buy it with money. --- I am not opposed to the evangelb zation of the world but believe strongly in the -Bible' which <om mands us to preach the gospel to every creature. which includes the heathen, but I want to see a little more evangell.ization right here at home. And it will c'ome for the movement is world-wide, but we must do. something more than raise money. We must get rid of hate. We must put in its plaee love in our owni hearts for those at our very doors. This is a commercial age, a 'utilitarian age in which we are prone too much to look upon only pecun iary results as worthy of considera tion. I rea,d somewhere the other day that Americans were the most pro fane people in the world and that a traveler in Russia was taken to be a clergyman simply because he was not heard to swear as all Amer icans were addicted to this wicked habit. You know what is said of the blasphemer. This same writer related the following incident: "Doeter Scudder, upon his return )esJ2usinlg prof.-Ue laliniage. ae eosted him and said: This boy was ljok*11 0,11( op~;i m1 i a je.11C1i1: heard a Tnm blaspheme his Maker until now.' Ihe man apologized and moved away ashamed." But I didn't intend to write this. I wanted to tell you my idea of the dignitv of labor and to illustrate it in the life of Gen. James Gordon As stated, lie was at one time a very wealthy man and at another time a very poor man. In the panic of 1893 -he had reverses and lost heav ilv. He was then 60 year. old. He drove a milk wagon and peddled milk in t1e streets of Okolona where only a short time before he had driven with his fine carriage and horses. In speaking simply of this period of his life he is quoted as saying: 'I began to peddle milk in the town where once I had lived as a million aire. I was content. I have always taken things as they came, just as I accepted the temporary appointment as senator. "One day I drove through the strets of .Okolona a half drunkeen street lounger called out to me: " 'Jim Gordon, you are nothing but a broken down aristocrat. I've seen you drive through here with a carriage and a span of fine horses, and a "nigger'' with a boiled shirt. Now you're driving a milk wagon.' "I stopped just a moment to re ply: ' 'You are right, my friend, but there's one difference between us. I can drive a milk wagon and still be an aristocrat; you might have a car riage, a span of horses and a "nig ger" with a boiled shirt, but you will never be an aristocrat." That's it. It isn't what a. man does, but how he does it and what he is him self that makes the man. I am glad to see that President Wright is enlarging Willowbrook Park and that it will soon be open. I am still hoping that John Kinard will wake up before long, and get his rich folks together and start that East End I6er's park. Now, John, seriously will you not do some thing and do it now. You can do it a.nd I still have faith in you. It would be so easy for you and Jim Burton to get together an,d do it. I know Mrs. Floyd and Mrs. Wright a-nd the otther members of the eivic association will aid you and cooper ate with you. You olight to go over to Willowbrook some evening when it is open and see what a nice place it is and how easy it would be to make a park along either side of Scott's creek from Nance to Glienn street,s or as far as Calhoun street. It will not drive any trade from Newberry and will not keep the far mers or the country people from eoming to town. ILet's do something we can leave to our children and for whieh they will thank us. Some thing besides money. Something' that they can enjoy and that gives; them ideas and will arouse in them their better nature. Whiat a mon ument it would be to us of this day. to build a park for the children. .In which they could enjoy themselves and in which we old people could spend a pleasant evening. Don 't you think it worthy of your serious eon siden'at,ion. I appeal to your better natures. It will he so easy if you only will to *do it. -o I hope Mayor Blease will not give out the idea of making -that little park in front of the old court house building. Somebody who was in. Greenwood the other day was telling me what a pretty little park Mayor Baker had put down in the public square which was formerly used as a wagon yard and how p.eased the; people now are. Nobody who op-; posed this improvement when it was started can now be found who i's willing to acknowledge that he was so shortsighted as to oppose it. Mayor Blease, if you will have that coping put down and make this lit tie park it will be a inonument to your administration which will be pointed to years after you are out of office. But be sure to bring it further out than the steps. To come out less than twenty-feet would be folly. O.f course the bituaithic paving, proposition ought to be aceepted but our people seem to be afraid to accept a good thing when t'hey see; it. The patch work you are doing on these streets costs more than the interest on the, cost of paving. It would be better to stop on street work for a year or two and put our morney in permanent work. But I must think about something else. I read in the paper the other day that a one dollar bill had been put under a microscope by some govern T esday 2 Cash Buig 4n CashBuyN suchd< the same rn leather. \N buy of us. Mimnaugh Watch the Express Wagon. New Silk, Wool and Rep Suits, Separate kirts, Silk and Lingerie Waists rolling in very day. Its just like throwing away. oney to buy anything in the way of wear ig apparel without seeing what we have o offer. It makes no difference what kind f a dress you wish-silk, woolen or otton--you can get suited here. You are cordially inv ervice both to show and o contain 92,000,000 germs. Among fore the te germs found were smallpox, sidiered w ~calet fevey, typhoid, taberculosis now thai ard diptheria. A member of Con- Iknows w~h gress had the examination made, in never hea upport of a bill for a clean cur- bacteria rency. He wants to have all the way back aper money returned to the treas- that any ury and burned:. I was just wonder- pure undi ng how they counted all these show mill germs. And how they would keep always tb the currency clean. And if any ,body they madi ould now refuse to aoceept paper there are oney. The examination showed jmighty g~ he larger the denomination of the thvere is n bill the less the number of germs. I take the m considering accepting nothing times. less than a C. ...-. I have Well, it seems to me that we are Stanton q getting so many laws and so many!eys' Sund: germs are being discovered that ex- folks in i stence will become a burden, if we ter skip a think on them much. There are 3o refit er de -m+y +thinsta we used to do be- jlak ter be ednesday, Mar Each seas Each season we have ad( will have oni proud of the been looked i department it that the ladie country will 1 exquisite mod STI Every freig] complete the ands of dollar purchased by ago has pavec has ever occu this monster si open, I am goi Te Sh . In Slks, W< . to a city five *tions for this every need ca _____________ nomical and. a Cash~ Seling-That's GATHERED the CREAM of the Mark ster Oxfords and Pu ned SELBY Oxfords for Ladies "has ~pendable leather is put in other Shoes a oney. All sizes and styles-blacks, tal e can save you 50 cents on every pair When you want your Easter Oxfords . Come, we will be pleased to show y< Novelties in Belts, Hand Bags and Hair Pins. New Elastic Belts, black and all colorn 25 and 50 cents each. Turban Hair Rats, black, browns an blonds, 25 and 4o cents each. Belt Buckles, Sash Pins, Hair Barrett: New Patterns Silk and Wash Belting: Leather Hand Bags, 49c, 98c, $1.49, $I.S and $2.50. 10 dozen Black Kid Gloves, first be Italian skins, Easter sale price 98c pair. ited to come and bring y sell. A hearty welcome 'ar and that were not eon,-- Satan is passin' rou ong then are made crimes firemens in de next an. old follow hardly be well to spend a ere he is at.. And then we effort on such fol -& of so many germs and Lnd so forth. I remember yonder heariig it said Chamberlain's St< water tihat we considered - r the microseope would Tablets are safe, si ions of live animals but I and have been prais ought that was right and of women who have Sthe water pure.. Anyhow health through theii times when water tastes cuerative properties. od, mirobes or not, and Pelham & Son. thing I have found would_____ lace of water a~t suchi Gode Eule E just read where Fraink Golden Rule Enea notes one of Brother Dick- I. LO. 0. F., will me vy texts a-s follows: "Dar's Hall the 4th :M:onda [is won' dat's mean 'nuff month at 8 o'clock. id de collection fer de ben heathen; but I wouldn't in de pace w'en o1' W. G. Peterson, B< I enmng h15th and 16th on we try to beat the records of the past. we have tried hard to please. Each year led hat customers by the thousands, who Y "The Hat from Mimnaugh's". We are showing we have to offer you, for we have apon as headquarters and leaders in this upper Carolina. Its our earnest desire of Newberry and surrounding towns and isit this matchless showing-hundreds of lels and no two alike. ILL THEY COME it train that reaches Newberry is helping to shipments of New Spring Goods. Thous worth of Spring and Summer Merchandise Mimnaugh while in New York a few weeks n i the way for the greatest trade event that 3q rred in Newberry. The two huge fbors of :ore are literally crowded. Keep both eyes, V g to make it lively for the boys this spring. 1wing of Spring Fabricd olens, Cottons, and Linens would do credit imes the size of Newberry. 'Our prepara eason's business;began months ago. Your a be satisfied at this store in the most eco tisfactory way. Mimnaugh's Motto ts and placed them here at your disposal mps..I a walk over". d Oxfords for 2. -is and patent > Oxfords you ome direct to Easter Sale Prices. ~ Standard Ginghams, io to 20 yd. lengths. 8 cents kind, sale price 5 cents. - A11 Standard Calicos, blues. turkey reds, dsilver grays, etc., 7 cents kind, sale price-' 5 cents. 36-inch Standard Bleaching, worth ioc. 8sale price the yard Syi cents. t zo bales Celebrated Sea Island, the 85.ec kind, sale price 6y4 cents. ur friends. We are at-'your ~ waits you at Mimnaugh's. n' shovels ter de NOTICE. wo'.' It might The policy holders of The Farm ittle misdionary ers' Mutual ].eurance Association s. of Newberry county are asked - to The Idler. bring their polieies to Newberry on -Saturdlays, 12th o'r 19th, or 26th or mach and Liver April 2nd, to me at the Clerk of Court's office. Those ihat can't ir adreibl,possibly come must send them to ead .byeliable, me by mail. The old policies wilt be dbee retoreads teplaeed with new ones. benrtre d tod By order of Board of Directors. onled and.E. L.t.Epting, Soldby W E.Agent. A Man of Iron Nerve. icampment. Indomitable will and tremendona - energy are never foumd where Stom npment, No. 23, ach, Liver, Kidneys and Bowels. are et at Klettner's out of order. If you want these y night in each qualities and the success they bring,. use Dr. King's New Life Pills, the W. 0. Wilson, matchless regulators, for keen brain hief Patriarch. and strong body. 25c. at W. E. Pel ribe. ham & Son's.