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LOUI>VS -APPIFALT. Editor. MANNING. S. C.. JULY 7. 1909. 'PUBLLStED EVERY WEDNESDAY. suBSCRIPTION RATES: one year ......... - - - - - O Si months ..... 15 ADFRTIsNG RATES: One square. one time. S: each subsequent in %ertion. 50 cents. Obituaries and Tributes o! nespect charged for as regular adverticntA Liberal contracts made for three. six and tweh-z enmunlcatons must be accompaied by the real name =ad address of the writer in order to TvetAiVe attention. No communication of a personal character wi be published except as an advertisement. Entered at the Postonice at Manning as Sec ond CLass matter. THE DRUNEARD. Isermon by Rev. C. W. Blanchard. be tore the &-srendon Bap*ist Church of Manning. S. C. June 7th b190.1 1 Cor. 6:9, 10.-"Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not in herit the Kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters. nor adulterers, nor ef feminate, nor abusers of them selves with men, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor DRUNKARDS, nor revilers. nor extortioners, shall inherit the Kingdom of God." I wish this morning to divert from the usual course of the tem perance lecturer and preach aser mon to the individual's heart on the terrible personal responsibil ity that rests upon each one in adjusting his own relation to the use of strong drink. In the dis course of the hour I have no ap ology to make for the universal crime of the manufacture and sale of the curse, but simply want to emphasize the individual's sin and crime who allows himself to be come the victim of this mis-an thropic provision of law for his personal downfall and utter de struction. It will, in a very em phatic way, help to show the en ormity of the crime of the liquor business, to give the operator a casual vision of the products of his business. So let us for the time being concentrate o u r thought upon the consumer of al coholic drinks. In this day of inventions for human destruction a most liberal construction must be placed upon the definition of the term "Alco holic drinks." The old processes of distills ~ion that. gave, in its simpler form, the-drugs of destruction, seem destined to be lost in the new invention of processes by which the- same ends may be reached. More deadly to the in *dividal,andoftenmorefarreach ing in the ifluences that follow - their use,are many of the drinks offer ed the unwary insipient DRU~irARD, which disclIaim the proprtyor effect of alcohol. Whtever may be the interpreta tion of legislation and jurispr0 dence on these concoctions, the result follows as inevitably as the use, and it is high time the manhood of our great country -which is being sapped by their use, should wake up to the facts of the situation and obey the voiceof that warning which hails from the devastating trail of the evil. Cocaine is a more deadly posntoeveryelement of human hsthan alcohoi. A sufficiezt per cent of this drug can be disguis ed into the soft drink beverages, to destroy every vital power of man that could be touched by the ordinary processesof alcoholism. They are even quickerin destroy ing moral sensibility and in driv ing the victim into the voluntary lds of the crimes attendant thereupon. By all the laws of ethical interpretation the victim of these habits will have to be classed with the DRUNKARD and share in the common judgment of his temporal and spiritual -ends. I shalbe most happy in my designs this morning if I can sound a note of warning that will hedge about with safety the young lives which are as yet un fettered by the evil. I am aware that I shall not speak directly to the victim that is now in its throes. Even if he were here and could hear his shame depicted with life-scenes of his most hor rible experiences, there would be only the bare hopes that moral - strength were yet left him to profit by it, for of all the slavish victims of any passion, th e DaVYKRDa presents the most pitiable example. But you, my young friends, are strong in the assertion of those laws of nature which can fight a successful bat tle with this most insidious and alert evil. THE ETHICAL LAW OF THE AGES IN DIVINE JUDGMENT. - Moses was a type, in many par ticulars, of the true anti-type we have later found in the great Meditator. Intercessor and Reve lator of the perfection of the law of God. There is discovered by the student of the Penteteuch and the Gospels a perfect har mony and perpetuation of ethical principle. There was an end of types and symbols in the Jewish ritual, which pointed to and pro phiesied the coming of Christ and the New Dispensation. Again, by Rabbinic interpretation, there had come to be a wide chasm of difference in ethical enunciation and practical response to its re quirements. But the Christ wh entered into perfect sympathy' with the primary expressions of the first law-giver, verified their stability and perpetual obliga tion. It will not be amiss therefore to compare interpretations of the one great evil now before our consideration by the two great Dispensations of religious eco nomy. The sattet of the tirst law giver was: --If a mar have a stubborn and rebellious son. tha1 will not obey the voice o his father and his mother and, though they chasten him will not hearken unto them then shall his father and hi. mother lay hold on him. am bring him out unto the elders o his city, and unto the gates of hi: place; and they shall say unto th< elders of his city, this our son 12 stubborn and rebellious. he wil not obey our voice; he is a glut ton and a DRUNKARD. And al .the men of his city shall stom him to death with stones: S shalt thou put away the evil Irou the midst of thee: and.all Israe shall hear and fear." (Deut., 21 1S-21.) You will readily see that drunk enness was placed among th worst of crimes in Israel. Th< very mother and father of th victim were to be the plaintitf: and witnesses, and all the peopl executioners, that Israel migh be rid of a terrible evil. The New Dispensation enter its statute in the language of th, text and other similar passages In the former, judgment was cor poral and immediate. In the lat ter the victim was to shar< the living tortures conse quent to its poison. an abide the assignment of eter nity's curses. The first with th last tiught the same inevitabli lessons of temporal and Enal rain and served to school the living 1 the displeasure of the Creator i such vile perversion of the right of his creatures. To the Hebrew the awful fear from example wa necessary. To us the revelatioi is more perfect and the moni tions of the spirit warn by rever sion to the mandates of law. In whatever stage of the hf, of the caeature, in the dispensa tion of Divine RIevelation, it i: woe, woe, woe, to the DRUNKARD Whatever may be the curse of thi machinery that furnishes his op portunity and temptation, a though it would have no part 1 the final sentence of justice, th< DRUNKARD is wholely account able for himself. It would be a great nistak< not to notice in the New Dispen sation the divine estimate o the sin of drunkenness, from thi association it is given with othe: evils; - "FORNICATORS, IDOLA TORS, ADULTERERS, THIEVES COVETOUS, DRUNKARDS, REVIL ERS AND EXTORTIONERS!" Hov can any human heart justify oi fellowship a sin that is classe< with such associates by the cod4 or Divine justice? Apart from the legal-aspact o the drunkard, I want us now t< look at some of his real experi ences in life. .LI THE DRtUNKARD'S HEART. "Out of the heart are the is sues of life," Nothing can ser iously affect human life that findi no inlet to the heart. As th< physical organ is the enginery a circulation and. distribution o things that nourish or destro' bodily life; so the heart is the on< organ of the spiritual nature which must be entthralled in sir before Its deadly power can reacd any or all of the elements of life. It will be found that the heart o: the drunkard, the throne of his powers, suffers the infection oj the evil. -(a) First of all he will find thal his heart is at variance with the law of God. That plac id sentiment which issues fronr the first and second great com mandments is a stranger to the heart of the drunkard. In con temptuous hate for all that is virtuous and pure and true his prostituted heart rles with re setment to law, whether statu tory or ethical, and disobligel every agency of his personal safety and real comfort. It is ~deadly poison that enters and corrupts the very citadel of lift and liss, and sends from il strams of discord and defilemen1 to every limitation of nature. (b) The drunkard's heart is il: at ease with environment. Thai beautiful correspondence whicl was arranged in the psychic or der of his nature has been so dis turbed by the entrance of this new and strange element, thal disorder and disassociation reigns where it would be most natura: to expect correspondence. It i: thisrupture of the sublime rule of nature which makes his hearl (c) Irritable, and the prey o deadly passion. The normal condition of a civ ilized human heart is peaceable sociable, polite and clever in ob servance of the laws of gentility But, infiamed by the poison o alcohol or narcotics, self-respec is dethroned and the whole na ture becomes a' prey to depravei passion. With or without provocation, it fights with poignant weapons, wounding everything that stands within the reach, and, strange tc say, the nearer the object by nat ural affinity the greater the pas sion to bruise and ruin. Filia obligations and regard are lost Paternal position and its stupen dous requirements are despised and ignored. Conjugal laws and restraints are broken with spec al delight, and the greater thc injury inflicted, the greater thc gratiicationi of the call to thc bestial in him that has beer aroused by the abnormal enslave ment of the passions to sin, Fes tering under the terribie strair of this demoniacal passion (d) the human heart becomesa veritable laboratory of hiei. Every demon of the region o. darkness finds a place and ma terial for doing his part in thc drama of human sins. Moral de generacy brings the erstwhile truthful lips to lie, honest heart to steal, humane spirit to delight in cruelty, and quiet life to rage with murderous design and act. The whoie course of nature is set tice and make a mock of the most I sacred bonds of human virtue. If < the heart of the drunkard could ; be analyzed there would be found I in it the very alchemy of death and all that leads to indisoluble ruin and woe. It would present 1 I a kaleidoscopic vision of the ves- 1 tibule of hell. Oh, living man, < thou who wast made in such re splendent honor, environed by every material needed for the re 1 firement of those noble gifs for - the bliss of time and eternity, I! heed not the provocation of evil environment to curse your life in ) time and eternity by the bane of I alcoholism: "Keep thy heart I with all dilligence, for out of itl are the issues of life." II. TH!E DRUNKARD'S HOME. Home is the oldest institution of Divine creation. It is there fore the first in cardinal impor tance. Before the church in or der and importance is the home. t In its ideals. it nearest approach- I ;es in model the celestial abode. It is God's greatest effort to paint on moral vision the realities of the invisible, immortal familv o' I "the just made perfect." 1. nat ever lowers the tone of home life and sanctity. and causes to ig nore those influences which make fo- its betterment and model of the "Home Eternal in the Sky, is a sin against one of the high est privileges of human fellow ship. It can find no amelioration for its crimes, either in this world or the c ae to come. One has only to visit the home of the drunkard to find what havoc his deeds have wrought to all that is high and holy in the 2 outlook of the design of bis crea tor. The drunkard's home (a) Is at best an intolerable I makeshift, and not the place and I the thing,. his once sober man hood promised to those who con tided their every prospect in time and eternity to his care. Who has seen the air of disappoint tuent that lurks in every appoint nient of the drunkard's home, but bewails with a burdened heart the murdered hopes and aspira tions, that must have once tilled its inmates' hearts? Unkept. im provident, unprotected in the de fense of those finer qualities of life which it was the right of each member to expect and claim r as a birth-righ1. The sickening vision will not die, but live on and on to haunt the waking hours with the scenes of wreckage which alcohol has wrought, with not a single architect in all the world to repair and restore the loss. How can observant man f hood gaze upon the scene and turn away and offer his own home and honor on such a consuming altar of shame and ruin? (b) The drunkard's home is, day by day, a panoramic exper ience of murdered ambitions, dis appointment in natures promised share in life's attainments, andI the mournful sobs of the dying Shopes of dependent ones. It is a process of dying more horrible than that portrayed by Dickens in solitary imprison ment. The assassin wields his deadly blow and the dying are 1soon dead and beyond the horri ble agony of its frightful ordeal. The assassin himself is broughtto Sspeedy judgment for his crime and the turbulent waters are bsoon quieted over. But the inmates of the drunk ard's home are often in the dying struggle for months and years with not even death as a friend to mitigate their pains. When -the deed is done, after the cruel process, the murderer is follow-' ed to the graves of his victims by a mourning procession whichi rather commiserate his apparent < earthly loss, than afflict him for < his thrice murderous crime. Compared with the awful sin of his life ini the blighting ofa hopes and hearts of his loved ones, the assassin's deed is not for once to be considered. (3) The drunkard's hom-e is a picture of disappointmein, (yea, I the very think itself,)and the em-< bryonic assemblage of the hell that is to be. Every member of the household is impelled to take< part in the drama. Innocence and iguilt alike are the victims of the1 sufferings entailed, and heaveni only will reveal the story of the< afflictions that harrow the lives1 of the inmates thereof.1 All the revenue of the ages from the manufacture and sale of< of liquor will not atone for the I; ~sufferings of one lone wife or1 mother who has lived her days in a drunkard's home. The ,eon der of the ages will be that a ra-I tional being that is possessed of the knowledge of the way, will voluntarily subject himself to such self-destruction and utter1 ruin to all that his life shouldi bless. When the master artist has pair.ted the picture and ex< hausted his skill in blending the< hues and tints of mental.spiritual and bodily anguish that is all but too real in the drunkard's home, it will yet be an unfinished por tr-ait, and much will not be known 1 except by the suffering experi- t ence of the inmates of the same. IWhen these things are contem plated as the fruit of an individ- t ual's recreance and sin, one is coastrained to cast an earnest refiection upon what must inevit-; ably be4 III. -rml: DINUKxAR'S iIoi':. (a) Isolation from wholesome., human society. One of the assur ances~ of perpetual civilization is ' the salvage of social contact. This dynamic force ha~s to) be sea-c soned with the salt of lofty aims. to direct its missives tow~ard the! coal of virtue, truutii and right eousness. The drunkard without t loosing the potent ialitv of the I force misdirects its aim, and be comes the pitiable viction of self t imposed isolation. Nobody is fonda of his association because it con taminates rather than elevates. i :'.'danle he tbes of the resent- Is nent he feels that civilized so ;ietv is aiming at his course and ssigns his place without the imits of its service. His own :urse is a bequest to his family. mnd who can tell the struggle it .akes for the ambitious child of ;he drunkard to break the wall )f social ostracism built against rm and toget in the currents that; ead onward and upward. This is i law that for reasons one may leplore, but the preservation of! human society demands the pre maution. It would be suicidal for the race to disregard the decree. (b) The next looked for herit age of the drunkard is the wreck age of body, mind and soul. in verselv is the order of its work, for the higher organisms of life are the first to suffer in the con flict with sin. -Whoredom and wine. and new wine take away the soul." No drunkard shall enter the kingdom of God. The records will show that 50 per cent of the inmates of our asylums for the insane are there and in that condition from the use of alcohol. How many of the diseases that prey upon hu man life are due to the use of al cohol will not be known till eter nitv reveals it. but it is enough to know that an enormous per cent of human suffering is the heritage of this crime. (c) Again, the inevitable fate of the drunkard is poverty and want in the very harvest season of life. He is sowing wild oats when it is allotted to him to seed down the field with what will make him a profitable supply in the harvest season. From mid dle life to old age when his gar ners ought to be tilled for the exigencies of the evening. he is stricken with poverty, discom fort and shame. One only needs to cast about him to see whither the way of the drunkard leads. One of the greatest strokes of his poverty is the possession of a thirst insatiate that only in creases with his capacity to gratify it. (d) Another prospect before him is a degraded household and an accursed posterity. He trans mits, as well as his poverty, the proclivities and degeneracy of his sin. There is nothing for him to expect but the harvest of his sowing. "Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap." His iniquitous living has visited its curse upon the generation that follows him. The drunk ard's hope is the wreckage of his generation. (e) Last of all, he looks for ward to his personal damnation. In their extreme struggles with the demon I have been called upon to encourage them that, in1 that dying state from the curse of the evil, there was hope of redemption if they or-ly trusted in that emergency to the mercies of God in Christ Jesus. It is ot for mec to say how that, out of sight of human power to in erpret God's mercy, there is1 power to save one in such a con lition, but I only k-now that the :>fer of such mercy has not been ommitted to us. The mandates :f the last revelation, the new :ovenant is, that no drunkard shall entar the kingdom of teaven. I can preach this with ~uthority but I would pervert be truth and degrade my call ng did I say aught to the drunk rd than that he must be eter aally lost if he dies an unrepent nt drunkard. This leads to :onclude with a remark upon IV. THE DRUNKARD's HELL. I'he inquiry will naturally be. is t tobe expected that it will be jiferent with the drunkard from >thers that go there? "Hell is t place and why not all fare tlike in the place?" Yes, there -ill, no doubt, be a difference,! or hell is a condition as well as Splace. If the philosophy of >reparation has anything to do vith ends then there must be a: ifferened in the condition of in lividuals who go there. It will nake the idea clearer to notice (a) That in this life the whole yourse of the drunkard is de-1 tructive. He has spent his days hat should have been used in 2plifting and bettering the con lition of the world, in over :hrowing and upsetting the laws hat would accrue to his ownt nd universal good. If the law1 >f retribution is eternal and im nutable, and all believe it is. ~hen in the life to come (b) the drunkard will not only eap his personal damnation, but suffer the fruits of his sins, inci lent to his works, in the wide ~pread influence it had upon oth ~rs. Revelation is clear that here will be, and are, degrees1 n hell. Then the drunkard who as broken the hearts of loved nes and carried them in the! :urrent of his degradation must e the greater sufferer when he sees them come hounding him lown with their curses in the Lbyss of woe. Far beyond the ales of his earthly home will~ here be the crowding witnesses >f his evil life, playing about iim through endless cycles, tol orent him over tho curse of ls influence which led them to -in and to hell. (e) It begins in his life exper-i mes. As if hell was not big iough and lts duration long mough to mete out his deserts, ie begins in life to receive thet. ages of his sin. Did you ever and by the bedside of a dying. runkard and read the psychic ~tory of his last earthly expei me? We are told that " the ~ting of death is sin." Then; he sufferiings of that terr-ible iour must be the ar-ousing of he consciousness of the dyingone o the terrible tragedies of life .nd its fruitage. It must be the elirium of life's panoramic vis on which helps him just then in trn eality to revie the cnn sequence of ir m i ol ret. lion :rainst goodL A, he ies c the d ath conell j". iiihr tiat relentless foe. ti is 'i: for the crowding witnesses his years to whisper in his a most inaudible ears the miistakt of his misspent days. ;,old he sCel to Stretch upon his cOut' and groan the wail of the dyin as though remorse was ervim for a new chance to change ti experience.which is not grante< Death gathers a new grip. takin its victim throu-h the valk and shadows of the smoking' cit where lie is allowed to seo at I e'ed around him th- iouiseiiol of (isappointimnl.t whose .ruin I has wroughmt. with vision < their poverty, homel'ssnes. ra awi disapintment. A wife wi has long since preceded him 1 the death valley returns anl r views to him her once happy ar hopeful prospect whio-h lie iln blighited by de-bauche'ry. :r again lie sighs with -roanin and pains: see his contortI muscles twiv:h in horror of ti view. Death, still holding hi fast to his task. there come no from the in fernal region the pa faces of all the ruined. damn' souls that were ensnared ar sent down to the pit by his ev inhluence. to work their last e fort of torment in the consig ment of his spirit to its rewar< The wife whose spirit had be( broken and soul abandoned sin by reason of his abuses. no comes back from the region the damned, and stalks befoi him in ghastly form: she placi her cold, icy hands upon h forehead and whispers in h ears, "Curses on you for i own damnation.'' The -do children who had been spiri crushed in life and influenced lead a life o sin and depravi by his deeds, now return ghastly vision and. cluste2rii around his struggling form, 1: their awful accusation again him. Then the departed spiri of those whom he had influenc in life to follow his example, turn make their visit to the d ing couch of the miscreant to a cuse him and condemn him fo his life deeds: and each tin this sting of death plies his p( sonous fang: the victim rag, with new agony, till the woi is done and the vestibule cleared by the actual entran into the fellowship of etern darkness and woe. I was called upon once witness the death of a your man who was led to it by ale hol. His mother and sistA were Christian women. I ha' never understood how they su vived the scenes and experienc< of that hour. As he was in tI agonies of that ordeal we ask< if he would like an iuterest our prayers: he insisted that would be of no use for he w: already damned. What I ha' rehearsed as a dying experien< of the drunkard, he made ele: by audible enunciation. Whi strong men held his demo possessed body to await the d parture of the spirit, he wou tell his mother and sister he w: in hell, and that he felt its vei tires gathering about him. H last words were: "I am dying and I am ente ing a drunkard's hell." There is time today to tal warning, my friends, and set that refuge which is only four in total abstinence from the th use of the curse, and a life trust in the Redeemer. M1ay H Spirit impel you.1 decision no and save you through all etc nity.. sTAT OF.1. (eiTl "V TLklk.' enior pairtner of the' :irm of F. J. et'zr.m~ co.. dofn: bu~ine,'.' in the city o: Tu~edo. cour: and state afore-'aid. andihat -aid ?irm w i is the 'sum of oNE ill'NDm:EI) LDOLL.\itS: eh and every case of catarrhi that c'ann't.' curerd by the us.e of Hi ..5 .r T.uiti trn. sworn to) twfore meandt s.ubscribed in my pz janc. thi% 6th day of Devvmbe'r. .\. D. 13+6. dau-, catarrh cure i's tah~en internaiv acs~ directly on the blood and muwou% %urfat of the syatem. send fo.' testimioniais. fr.' sold by drcsa 7Ec DAYS OF THE WEEK. At One Time They Wore Designat Meruly by Numbers. Formerly the days of the week we numbered one, two, three. four. 13 and six, beginning with the sabbat Even now the custom stRil preva among certain modern Greek.. Slays and the Finns. Many old fis oned and orthodox Quakers. partie arly in the north of England. still ho to this custom, which was the com:iml one in the days of the apostles am down to the fourth century as well: usual among the Jews and the A1rnl The orthodox Quakers use the nurnx Ical system in preference to the ort nary on the ground that the gods at goddesses, from whom the names we taken, were not of the highest respect bility in point of mornis. The week was originally only a co venent quarter of the lunar mont hence it began on Monday. or mot day. Th'e Italins still call Mond: the nlra and Sunday the seventh di of the week. Tuesday is derived fro the Norse Tiw, who correspo.ndedl Mars, the god of war, a most disreput ble person in the eyes of Quaker Thursday was Thor's day, Thor bel: a god warrior who was morally no be ter than he ought to be. Wedlnesda again, was Woden's day. Woden beit the god of battle rage. The Rlomat called this day Mercury's. Fridey w: supposed to be the luckiest day of t1 week-for women. It was called afte the Norse Frija, the goddess of lov and Is the best day for weddings. F, the pagan Romans it was also the da of Venus, though the Christian Romnaz called It the day of 111 luck becaut Christ had been crueified on that da; Saturday was called after Saturn. au Sunday was known to the Christiarm as resurrection or sun day. The weekt of seven days was limpor ed from Alexandria Into Greece an into Italy about the time of Chris The Greeks had previously divide their month into sets of ten days. t Romans into sets of eight days. thxre and a half sets being equal to ou A VALUABLE WtEED. The Teasel That is u:;ea t- Rase the Nap on Cloth. Our readers who evx'-r saw a tease! (epelled also tenzei and teazk a.d even tassel) can Imagine a !;r c.ae or s "swamp cattail," s.-t all over with lit 1tle stiff hooks. It is the lur ttr tas sel or i'lower head or thisUe t,-p) of the plant dipsacus. and so identitled is It with cloth dressing that this ust of It =ave it Its botanical name, iDipsacus fullonum, or fuller's teasel. However familiar to people who live In lands where the teasel is extensive Y 'g rown the fact may bet that the prickly heads of that plant are i d1er saUy sed to raise the np" 1 -: th. a multitude (of persns in his country probably never heard of it aind will ie astonished to learn In what ,no.rmous quantities the pla:nt is raised. In France alone several thoiusand acres of land are exc!usively dev'.ted to the cultivation of the teasel. French manufacturers use many thousand dul lars' worth of the prickly heads and export thousands of tons of them. val s ed at perhaps millions of dollars. Hundreds of tons are produced in Atus tria. England. Belglum, Poland and the Crimnea. I The prickies of the tense! have a small knoh: at the e::d. and this. mount I I ed on ni elastic stem and set with great precision -n the central spindle. affords a lIttie bruh, .nch. it Is said, as the ut mot st :anical skill has - never been able to rivail. :t all events I- at the same price.-New York Herald. ni A LOST MINE. The Tragic Legend That Is Associated With Bald Mountain. The legend of a lost wine has given to Bald mountain, in Placer coun:y. Colo.. a fascinating interest for pros pectors. Tradition Is that early In the fifties of the last century three men disappeared fromt an immigrant party . going over the old Cap trail. Search t- for them was without avail. and they O were finally reported dead by the 'Y searchers. n Where or how they wintered no (one knows, but the following spring, rag ged. shoeless and demoralized, they filed into Michigan Bluff. Their llan kets were converted into sacks. and with them they brought gold dust to (1 the amount of $10.0l) or $1.000. in Spending but a single night within V- the confines of civilization and giving e no information as to the location of )r their large claim. they were followed e on their return trip. and a few weeks - a Lter their murdered bodies were found in one of the dreary canyons that scar the face of the desolate peak. Since then many a man has sought Is this lost mine, but apparently Its im : munity Is as certain as that of the al trcasure of Captain Kidd.-Philadel phis North American. Pensive Butlers. . The fashion of building houses with the entrance doors practically on a level with the street gives the observ. le Ig stroller on Fifth avenue some hu morous glimpses of butlers on duty. _S In the house of one of -he most fash ie onable families in town the butler can d be seen standing behind the bronze n grill and glass doors staring disconso t lately out at the passing throng for most of the afternoon, while across -the street from this house the same ekind of an entranceway often dis ecloses a glimpse of a functionary of tthe same class seated in a poetical at Ic titude by a circular marble table, his -l head supported by his hand. Outside e et a hospital they are probably the id saddest lookIng men in New York. s New York Press. isThe Gordian Knot. Whleni one of Uncle Sam's sailor's, a man named Gbordon. formerly serving on onte of our vesse!s in a West Indian sqjuadron, was take:: to the Naval hios e pital in Waishinigton he descrIbed with kgrewsomfe vividness to his companions dthere his atdventure with a shark off e one of the islands in the West Indies. "I * had jest fell over the bulwarks," said the able seaman. "'when along comes a big shark an' grabs me by the leg." "What did ye do then. mxatey"' ask ed one of the piatients. "I never disputes none with sharks," said the sailor. "I let him have the he leg."-IIarper's Weekly. A Composer's Compliment. SWagner once said he* would prefer to go to Vienna to hear the waltzes of Strauss to hearing Italian opera. On a birthday of Mmne. Strauss somec years ago she had as guests many celebrated musIcians. She passed around a fan Son which the different composers and play'ers were writing their names and excerpts fronm compositions of their own. When it reached L'rahms he penned the first measure of the "Blue Danube" waltz and sIgned beneath, "Not. I regret to say, by your devoted friend Johannes Brahms.' An Opinion. re "Say, paw," said little Rtollo, "why e do they call George Washington the . father of'hIs country?" is "I dunno, son, unless it was beeause shis country kept him hustling to keep h. it out of trouble and then came to ulook at him as a sort of old fogy awhose advice didn't amount to much ;a anyhow."--WashingtonStr SNights of Unrest. e No Sleep, No Rest, No Peace for athe Sufferer from Kid %nucney Troubles. a~t n Nopeac forthe kidney ,a:Terer' y l'ai and istress from morn tomn. y GJet up w.ithx a lame back T Iwinges of backatche bother' youa day. D)u!! aching breaks your rest a: night. Sl'rinary disorders add tovyour misery. S Ge: at the cause --eure the kidneys. Do an's Kidney Kills will work th: t-cure. r Tnev're for thme kidney, only- - Have made great cures in.ani s .Mr.. .M. i'. l'ip~kin. Crc St.. .an nin;: S C'.. says: "*I s:2ered from dull, nagi:f b~ ackachies :ad had dist:ressin' e an "trougzh myv kidineys. I was.er retesat nig'ht adi h onn fel Uie and lanod. havitno u by ovo frequent pasa;;es of th kidne asecreions. I a: length rea au tyt Dian' Kidney Pils and. procurin' a ha 1 be an their s:. direced. I dec'e reat 'elief froma thi' re'ed',. The *e-: ra"'heid ad are-twl aen heitation m recomment'u I:: I Mi:' I ' ney Pili. ' t ayone suming f'''ro back t. ache or' ktlmme' weakae. dI ,,or.i bleall dealer". I'rice ~.ce: l'Foster-.\ilbura ('i).. u:Tale Ne York so.-ag"~ for' :t 1' ntd e iemnembier.te:aeDa' n Schloss Schloss Clothes l Clothes wear Looks well. ea SCtU BROS. 4 Co. rawert mm Clothing Department. The prices we have on our Clothing are the biggest money na virr, vent ever offered the people of this section. You can see our prices, and then the goods they repesent, then compare them with the regular retail prices that is all that is necessary to con vince. Comparison is the only true test of value, our aim in busi ne'ss is to treat all customers in such a manner that they will come aain. and come often. Shoe Department. The Shoes for the new season are ready for your choosing. Any particularly good thing in a Shoe that you may be wanting, are ribht sure to find here. Crossett Shoes comes to us from the mx.akers that best know how. Everything in high or low cut im-odels. Patent. Colt and Vici. Gun Metal. Calf, and other good l-eathers. conservative styles. the extreme natty models. $2.50. $3.00. $3.50. $4.00. $4.50 and $5.00. We don't expect to sell all the Shoes sold in town. but we expect to s.ll and do sell the best Shoes sold in town. Dry Goods Department. Special prices throughout this department. Perca!. the vard, 9c. Wash Fabric, the vard, 6c. Curtain Swiss. the yard. 5c.. 10c. and 1: 1-2c. Good Ginghams. the yard. 9c. Good Lawn, the yard, 4 1-2c. Victor Madras. the yard, 9c. Gal atea. all colors, the yard, 15c. and 20c. Black Lawn. the yard, 10c. Bordered Muslins, the yard, 7 I-2c. Dress Linens. all shades, the yard, 20c. and 25c. Pillow Tubing. the yard, 20c. Cnam bray, the yard, 8 1-3c. Good Bleach, 6c., 8 1-3c. and 10c. Calico, the yard. 5c., 6c., etc. Everything in Silks. Wool Goods, Serges. Mohair. Sheeno Silk, Flaxon, Lingerie, Linen, Linenette, Check Dimities, Long Cloth, Nainsook. Umbrel las, Parasols, Ladies' Waist, Embroideries, Laces, Hose, Gloves, Belts, Ribbons, Belting, Rugs, Fans. Handkerchiefs, Etc. Read the above prices and consider for yourself tha t..s is the place to buy your goods. Six bargain days to thea week. Something doing everyday. The Young Reliable, J. H. RI BY. WE HAVE NO SALE but we sell goods much cheaper than you can buy at any sale, for the simple and sound rea sons, -We havne no expenses of advertising. have no leaders at less than cost to make up dol !ars on other goods by schenmes. Our Fall Stock comecs in daily in large volumes and w e nee~d the room. We also can use the m'oney to good advantage to buy goods for eash' for less money. For all these reasons w~e offer u r entire Summ~er Stock at such low prices that no saie can match it. It is well- known to all our patrons that we alway.s are in posimtion to buy our goods at lower nigures andi we cani afford to sell almost at such prices some merchants cannot buy. This has been proven many times and we are ready to prove it to you at any time. rust a trial at our store will convmece you. *. *. \LRASNOFF,.