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TH'*E PEOPLE 9SJORA 'I' s ...( N C, T VOL Q.---NO. 43- PICKENS S. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER '6,18.ONDLARAYR Silver -Dollars Given Am Greenville, S We have placed in our store- i Silver Dollars. We have had made f will unlock the box. With' every G given a key attached to a tag. Keys month after October 1st, and the I1o' be given $5.00 as a pr-eint. This is a new and novel way we I in cash what we have heretofore paid greater number will be benofitted. AT SMITH & You will find the I Men's Wear at GREENV Sole agents for Stetson's Stiff Hats. S< TRIBUTR TO MRS. PICKENS. A LOVELY AND TOUCHING SCENE. Beautiful Eulogy by One Who Knew Both Mrs. Pickenstand Illustrious Husband-Two Great Friends of the Confederacy. The following Is a brief outline of the excellent address delivered by Rev. Dr. L. I. Gwaltney, at the me morial services at the grave of the late Mrs. F. W. Pickens, the services being conducted by the Ladies' Memorial Association of Edgetield. Dr. Gwalt ney Is the beloved pastor of the Baptist church in that town, and a man of brains and eloquence. The speaker said in part: I appreciate the hon-or of being thus associated with the Memorial Society of Edgefield in the touching and beau tiful ceremony of this quiet hour. Dead must Wn the soul that is not warmed to generous enthusiasm ; cold and hard as adamant must be the heart unmoved by tender emotions on an oc casion like this. Forty years ago, at this season of the "sere and yellow leaf," I entered this village cemetery to take my part in burying an honored citizen. Since then there have been many changes. The order of nature has continued in - its unchanged course. The sun has come forth daily, "rejoicing as a strong man to run a race," and more than 500 moons Lave waxed and waned in their appointed orbits. The planets and stars have kept their courses and stations in unimaginable space, the binding sky has held in constant em - brace the sweetly coy, yet faithful horizon, " seed time and harvest have remained," the increase of fields, ano. herds, and flocks bas been yearly gathered for 'ihe toiler's use, spring and autumn flowers, bright gifts of heaven's lavish bounty, have come in their season to gladden our senses with perfume and beauty. All these have continued "as they were." ." Not so, not so " with the children of men, They must "come and go," their earthly places knowing them no more forover. Alas! that he whO was made lord of all things that live on earth, that he mist beoetricken from the seat of dominion and stately honor. How many hundreds, during the last forty years, have come to their graves in this cemetery I knew not, but I do know that many noble sons and daughters of a noble ancestry sleep around us today, and you, their child ren, do well to cherish with becoming pride the memory of their faithful lives. It is becoming in you to rejoice that such lives constituta a heritage which no decrees or schemes of men can take away. Nor should we repine when we think~ of -the happy past in which our lives blended in part with the lives of those we honored and loved. I know it has been written, " sorrow's crown of sor row is remembering happier things.' I do not quite believe it. Some memo ries of ha ppier things are-linked with unutterably sweet and precious emo tions. True, " the tender grace" ol the years that are dea will come tc us no more, but we drank their brim ming cup of joy as they passed, and no's we remember them with an ever iu. creasing wealth of tenderness and chastened blies, as much a soul-feast as were the brighter things of thosi happy days. I need not call the names of th< noble dead whose dust you might fini beneath this almost sacred soil. "Th< world holds record" of their namos and deeds, their dauntless courage, thel lofty patriotism, their fidelity to ever' generous impulse and conviction o duty. I will venture to say that not anoth or single acre of this broad continen cherishes in its embrace the dust of si many heroic men and gracious wc men. They had their faults, all mei have, but high sentiments of truth and right, and generosity, and loya devotion characterized their speech and adorned their private and publi walk. This day and this occasion wil justify me in making mention of tw who sleep so well their last sleep be neath our teardimmed eyes, Franci Wilkerson Pickens, and his worth consort, Lucy flolcombe Pickeni They were cast in no ordinary mouli Not often have superior dignity an taanliness, beauty and grace been con bined in earthly companionship. A minister from the United States, thi honored son of South Carolina carrie his Texas bride to the brilliant cout of St. Petersburg. Amid its splendt and Its brilliant galaxy of eminor men and beautiful women, no ncar courtesy and honor was shown to thoE representatives of republican simpli ity and strength. They might has remained there, beloved and honore by the noblest of continental circle spending a life of ease and idel earthly happiness, but when peri ray by Smith & Bristow outh Carolina. t handsome Oak Money-Box containing )r us a maniber of keys, some of which ish Purchase' of $1.00 or more will be can be tried the first Saturday in each iders of Keys That Unlock the Box will ive of advertising, and give to our trade for advertising, with the hope that the BRISTOW'S est of everything in Popular Prices!! ILLE, S. C. e our special line of Men's $3.50 Shoes. threatened their beloved State and scarcely less beloved Southland, these patriots turned from the richos and pleasures of court life and hastened to cast their lot with "their own," pro ferring to suffer Efllictions with them rather than enjoy the safety and charming luxury of European life. True, such sacrifice others have made, but such sacrifice thousands have been unwilling to make. Noble souls stand linked in sympathy and high endeavor, whether they be of peasant or pi incely blood. As " war governor" of his native State, Hon. F. W. Pickens stood among the foremost in unmoved steadfast ness, in passionate ardor, in uncom plaining fortitude, in glowing patrio tism. His devoted wife was not one wbit his inferior in steadfastness, in ardor, in fortitude, in patriotism. When the civil war ended, many citi zens of the South moved from their country, their States, their old neigh borhoods and fortrer associations. Grivernor Pickens elected to abide the wortunes of his neighbors, and work with them for the reconstruction of government and social life. How well he served in this regard is known to those who still ,survive those troublous times. After his death, Mrs. Pickens be came deeply interested in the effort to erect a monumenton our public square to the memory of our Confederate dead. A memorial society was formed under the inspiration of her fervid patriotism, and she was elected its first president. The fast revolving years cloded the life of her only child, the beloved Douscha.- Then, widowed and. childless, she ga'- her love and en ergy .tQ the one aim of completing the monument, and thus blending her own name imperishably with the names of .the- men she hQnored as patriot heroes. Why this noble enterprise has so lb'g-lingered in its accomplishment, I-.know not. Her-deepest and strongest desire was to coinplete it before hpr death. . It stirs the generous heart #With deep regret and sadness that this desire was not fulfilled. She has fallen are her self-appointed work was finished, but this work has been com mitted to worthy and faithful hands. I commend to your cordial support the president and members of the Memo rial Association. Citizens of Edgefield, join heart and hands with them, and finnish the mar ble shaft that shall tell your posterit~y how the patriotic women of Edgefiold loved and honored the "men wno wore the grey." Those women, noble in themselves, and ennobled by the task they will accomplish, and we, their co workers, will soon finish all the toise and arifices of life. We lingor and work yeti a little while beneath our bright Southern sky, and we also shall find our resting place in this little " city of the dead." "Through sorrow's night, and danger's path, Amid the deepening gloom, We, soldIers or a heavenly king, Are merchiing to tL e tomb. Our labors donie, securely laid In this our last retreat, Unheedt d o'er our silent dust The storms of life shall burst. Yet not thus lifeless in the grave 'rho vital spark shall lie; For o'er life's wreck that spark shall rise To seek its kindred sky. These ashes, t oo--this little dust, Our Father's care shall keep, Until the final trump shall break The long and dreaty sleep. Then love's soft dew, o'er every eye Bhall shed its mildest rays, And our long-si lent dust shall Hise, With shouts of endlecss praise." ,-Mr. R. A. Moore, president of the jTexas Tobacco Growers' Association, .reports that he is in correspondence 1 with six or eight cigar factories which ,contemplate moving to Houston withIn 1the next three or four months, and ho estimates that within the next three i years that city will have factories em ploying from 1,200 to 1,500 cigarmak iera. o -A Manila correspondent of the .Chicago Record, speaking of the de s parture of the TJwentieth Kansas Rlog y iment, notes the curious thing that s. when the men tarned in their arms .most of them turned in Mausers, when d they were charged with Springield - rifles on the books of the regiment. s They had captured the Mausers from *s the Filipinos. C ASTOR IA or Infants and Children. SThe Kind You Have Always Bought tuBerthe Is - FOUNDEI OF CHIISTIA N SCIE NUE Mrs. Eddy Deolared to Be an Imposter and a Most Prosperous liumbug. Worcester, Mass., Beacon. When some weeks since, we com menced our investigation of the life, reputation and character of the so called discoverer and founder of Chris tian Science, we had no idea wo should wind up in bog and quagmire. We had assumed Mrs. Eddy to be a person of some culture, of pure and spiritual life aspirations, sincero In her belief, and nothing worse than a fanatic. We not proceeded far before we became doubtful of the accuracy of our pro conceived opinion. To be sure, we had no facts upon which to base an in telligent opinion, and were disposed to be, so far as her claims did not exceed the limits of credibility. We believed her, in brief, to be a woman of good character and rather exceptional hypnotic power. We close our investigation, which has been very thorough and entirely judicial in character, not with doubt of the accuracy of our earlier views, but with contidence that we entirely mis judged the woman known as Mary Bakor G. Eddy, and that she, while definitely claiming to be the equal in nature and in power of Jesus Christ, is in almost everything his precise op posit., Is insincere, dishonest, full of deceit and falsehood, unclean of heart, ilpure of life, venomous to the last de gree, despotic and arbitrary almost be yond belief,-an exceptionally clever charlatan, who has built an immense rortune upon the credulity of hosts of Innocent dupes. Wo had no other purpose in looking Into the character and antecedents of Nirs. Eddy than otho discovery of the truth, and it would have aflf&' ' - genuino pleasure to have bei 6., ay, as the result of our inquirie, hut ihe Is the saintly, immaculate, even HIvine person her followers believe. It is with regret, but with entire con Idence, that we alirm her to be none f tbese things. We allege nothing that is not sus 3eptible of legal proof when we say hat years ago Mrs. Eddy was a spiri ualist, taking a prominent pa:t in the ipread of spiritualistic views (she lenies this now, but her denial is an untruth); that she received the ideas, upon which her so-called Christian Science is based, from a man named Quimby, to whom she has very deli nitely and unequivocably time and again redited them over her own signature, and whom she extolled as one of the greatest men the world had ever pro iuced (she now repudiates her former repeated statements and maligns the man whom she formerly praised); hat her claim to revelation of abso lute truth from God which she em bodied in her book "Science and E.ealth," is wholly fraudulent, and inown to her to be so; that the book A a perfect mosaic of the thoughts of )thers, having been written largely ith scissors and been thoroughly revised, punctuated, rendered gram. matical and consistent with itself as nuen so, at least, as her stubborn Igno rance would pormi by literary skill, p-.eed and paid for,-pages of it written by other hands and published analtered ; that for years she has been iddictod to the use of morphine, tak ing it regularly in substantial doses ; that falsely, pretending to be in good health and possessed of the use of faculties in perfect condition, she is, in fact, in the most feeble health, with faculties greatly impaired ; that her pretended religion is merely the basis of a religio-commercial enterprise con ducted upon strictly business princi ples, and has made her a very rich wo man; that pretending to love her enemies, she hates with unspeakable hatred those, who, having yielded to her influence, dare to throw it off and disregard her wishes ; that holding completely subservient to her will a large number of men and women through the use of the fortune thus fraudulently accumulated, through their belief in her supposed power to punish her enemies by means of men tal influences exerted in colhusion with others, she terrilles into silence those who could of their own knowledge dis close her absolute depravIty of char acter and the fraudulent nature of her claims. To such an extent does this fear gc that many believe Mrs. Eddy to have punished her cnemles by causing their death, or the death of some member of their family. (Oe of her former be lievers, at one time most intimately ir her,confidence, has recently toldl us, with bated breath, of four death she believed to have been caused by Mrs. Eddy's mental power exerted upora people she believedi to be hostile tc her, or upon seome one dear to them, whose death would inflict pain. Wc are astounded, simply astounded at the absolute terror with which somc people regard this sup~posed power of Mrs. Eddy. She claims to be ablc to raise from the dead, and her fol. lowers believe she has restored to life and if she possesses5 the power to make alive, it logically follows, as these po ple believe, she possesses the power tc destroy life. We have neyer in thc course of our experience encounterec hatefulness so intonae as that of thi false feminine messiah, who, proclaim ing love of her enemies and having founded a religion upon the principi< of love, "treats"' her enemies in th< frantic and hideous hope of her making them feel the pangs of hell. The whole thing is explainable t< us only as a bueiness enterprise. Th< fraud pays ; it pays most substantially People are most easily gulled by ap] pealing to high sentiments, by th vague use of meaningless term's. I we have varied in opinion regardini Mrs. Eddy slnoo the commencement o our investigation,-fceling at one timi that she must be insane and irrespon sible, and at another that she is oni: insane as abnormal dlepravity couple< with unusual shrowdness is insanity3 we have finally arrived at the fixed conviction that not Insanity, but wick edness alone explains her. Greed] true love of money, the love of power vanity and utter lack of scruple in th accomplishment of her ends, thes things explain, and fully exp)lain, th life, the character and the accomplisl ments of Mary 14~kor G. hkddy, th most successful Impostor, the moi mrosnarnu humbum that evne lived. BIL ARP DUFINUS HONIESTY. SOME MEIN ARE AS BAD AS AN ANIAS. Hypocrisy, Deceit and Exasmeration Are Not Confinied to Ho0rse Swap pers. " Honesty is the best policy." said Ben Franklin, and Richard Whatley, the great theologian, added, " But he who acts on that principle is not an honest man." The truth is, that real, genuino hon. esty is not a policy at all, for policy requires thought, plan and generally some dissimulation. It comes front the head, the brain; whereas honesty is a moral principle that comes from the heart, and takes no time for thought. Policy is a cold, hard woed ; hontsty a warm, genial, neighborly one. The poets like it next best to love-lears says, " It's guld to be honest and true," and Pope says " An honest man's the noblest work of God." Tbe best dclini tion of the word is, " free from deceit, just in speech and action, fair in doal ing and worthy to be trusted." 1 was ruminating about this becaiuse a clever country boy from whom I buy my lightwood brought me a load today and the top layers and all that was in sight were rich in rosin and clean and attractive. He wanted a dollil' and a half, and I told him it was too much : but ho pleaded like a lawyer, and said he had hauled it ten miles, and that kind of pine was getting awful eearce ; that he could have sold it down town, but he knew that I liked rich, clean split pino, and so he brought it to me. He is a good-looking, hard-working boy, and so I bought it and stood by while he throw it off. The top was all right, but that out of sight was black knots or half-rotton pieces, and dis gusted me. " Look here, Felton," said 1, "lo you know of a boy who would put his best pine in the bottom of the wagon, or who would even mix it about half and half ?" " No, sir, i don't," said he ; " we havent got any of that sort in the piney woods." " Don't you know," said I, " that I wouldent have given you your price if I had seen into the bottom of your wagon ?" He smiled complacently and replied : " That's just the reason we put the best on top ; we couldent get more'n half price if we dident, and you know, major, we get mighty little for a hard day's work, any how." "But, Felton, that way of doing is cheating, and they say that cheat ing never thrives. I should think you would feel ashamed to throw your load off right here before me." "Well, now, major, to tell you the truth, I was in h1OI)e you wGud go in the house beioro I throwed it olf ; but everybody has to put the best on top," and ho smiled all over his face. What kind of a boy is that ? Well, he is a little better than the average of boys, or of men either, as to that, for he smiles at you while he deceives you. Heard a blind phro nologist tell a man once that his bump of covetousness was so large he would steal if he had a fair chanc---that is, if he found a man asleep with his pock etbook under his piilow he would take it, bu at the same time he had sym pathy so largely developed that he would kiss his sleeping victim before he left him. I like that boy for his good nature, and had rather he would cheat me than a boy who wouldent own up to anything, and go off anm brag how he got me. Yes, everybody puts the best on top, and every body tries to get the advantage in a trade-not every body, but the excep)tions are very few. A man can tell a lie by concealing the truth-when I was a lad I heard old Dr. Nathan Hoyt, of Athens, preach a sermon in our town, and have not for gotten how he looked straight at no and said . " Little boy, you can tell a lie by winking your eye." My wife says she was in a store one day when a country woman came in and asked the merchant, if he could match that scrap of gingham which biho showed him. He said no, but he hlad something very like It, and pret tieor, and he linally sold it to her. A ft,r she icit,, my wife remarked that, ehe might have matched it at the next, door, for she noticed the identical goods in the window as she piassed. " Yes, I knew it," said the merchant, "' but it wasent my business to tell her ; I must sell my own goods if I can." That was the kind of honesty that, was policy, but it wasent fair or neighborly- it, wasent doing as you would be done by. Tnc trading world is very busy concealing the truth. I bought a fine sow from a neighbor once, and she (3at upJ a diozen chickens the day I got heri. When i asked him why lie dllident tell mue that she was a chicken eater, he smiled and said he thought i would find it out soon enough. A merchant may kno y that a cortain piece of prints will fade when washed, but he does not tell it. You can hardly find a reatl linen bosomn shirt nowadays, but they are all sold for linen. These are not frauds of much conseqluence, but they illustrate the scripture, which saith "' A lie stickethi close in the joints between buyer and and seller," and " It Is naught--.it h naught-saith the buyer, but ho goeth his way and rejoiceth." T1hat was in a horse trade, I reckon. t-lypocrisy, deceit, exaggeration arc not con1ined to traders ; professiona: muen and politicians use all these t( gain their ends. Yes, and even som< preachers will make up a pathetit story to move their hearers to tears or to give a sensational e-ffect to tht bermnic. Tienm, there are the white liei that the women have to tell every day ' Oh, I am so glad to see you ; you art looking so well ; your little girl is > dear little thing, and as pretty as a 3 pink ; do sit longer i won't you tak< .dinner with us y" Sometimes she ii nok glad, nor le the little girl pretty nor does she warnt the visitor~ to sI ilonger or stay to dinner. But these art C social decceptions and keep up goot I will. Wvhat an awful thing it would bi a for a lady to tell her visitor that shi - had stayed about long enough, and hat 'better go. Not long ago a lady of out I town told two boys who came to sci ,her boys that they had betteor go home 3 for they had stayed long enough, an< - it raised a rumpus that is not yet al ,layed. ,But the most Lumuorous and provok e ing of all deeivers are tho advertiser U of patent medicines. sHverybody know e tI114t nine:tenths of their nostrums ar t humabugs and their cortificates of won e derful cures are either matic up or pai t for, and yet the sick or the diseasel will strain their renulityr and1 takr another chance to be restored. That's all rig It if there is no harm in the medicino, but we do got very tired TI looking vt the conspicuous heads and faces of doctors and patients in the 8 newspapers. Ordinary lying that has no malice in it is not a cardinal sin. It is not forbidden in the ten command ments. Ananias was not suddenly pun- W ished for lying unto men, but he had T lied unto God. He sought to defraud hN the Lord's treasury-and there is many fo a church member doing the same thing now. They make no sacrifice. They tb withhold a part and lie unto their own consciences. The poor widow's mite is still a bigger thing than a rich man's u large donation. an I wonder what kind of a world we would have if everybody was good. 1 don't iean religious, but kind and just th and honest. Our courts and prisons l would be abolished. Just think of it. But it cannot be. Original sin and to tal depravity and moral turpitude are still in the way. The mystery of evilI still hangs over us. John Stuart Mill and Rerbert Spencer and other great thinkers say that the Creator made the very best world and the best in- 3'S habitants that le could out of the ma- o terial that lie had, but that it is im proving as the conturies roll on. And John lPiske stays that evil is necessary be to teach us what good is. That if there was no criic or pain or grief we would have no joy or happiness and would not Know wha't it was. Plato said 2,000 years ago that we had to limit Gou's oninipLtenuc or Hii goodnoss, 0ne or fo the other, and many learned and sin cero ion, like Calvin and Fldwards, S have tried to reconcile predestination tr with froo agency, but it is all incomu- 01 prehensible to me and I have to fall back and entrench nyself on those in junctions which say " Deal justly-love to mercy and obey the Lord thy God," b and the later one which says, " Thou ,i shalt love the Lord thy God with all 0 thy heart and thy neighbor as thyself," and then accept David's faith which fo saith, " Though He slay me yet will I trust In Him." b P'm not going to strain my mind over b perplexing problems that have never been solved. Mr. l'iske is a beautiful writer, but if ovil was c-oated as a con trast so that we might Inow what good is then how can we enjoy heaven pr where there is no evil, no crime or grief or alliction. One thing I do know, that this is a beautiful world and this life is a happy one to those who choose to make it so. President Dabney of the . University of Tennessee, said In a re cent speech at Huntsvillo : " England ei is about to perpetuate a great crime against the Boers in expelling then In from their own domain. But this is progress and is inevitable. It is the law of nature and the law of nature is the law of God." That sounds like a strango doctrine to those who believe that God is love. The Savior said, E " Olfenses must needs come, but woo unto them by whomn they come." Then what peril are those rulers in v, ho have w the power to oppress and use it to ca-ry out a seolish policy. After all it is safest to bo an humble, honest citi zen and have no policy. BILlS ARP'. 1013 BUtDICTTE'S IELIGLON. le Marries a Rich Presbytori an Wo muiana an(I Quits tile Baptists. Bib Burdctte Is swinging 'round the a circle on his lecturing tour again, ac companied by Mrs. Burdtte. Well si and good. There is quite a romantic little story about the marriage of the funny widower to his present wife. She was a very rich California lady, b one of the pillars, financially of the fashionable Presbyterian church in the w town In which she lived. Bob, who has always been very much of a Bap- oi tist and something of a Baptist preach er, met her and was fascinated with her, at the very time when the pulpilt of her church was vacant. He p)ro piosedl to her and was accepted andi at tile saime time thle fashionable P'resby- ' tcrian church in the lady's town p~ro posed to him and was accepted. What t did it matter that he was a Baptist. ? He switched his Haptist train from the ~ benautiful, broad-guage river road track r to the narrow guage, no stopi-over allowed, Presbyterian track, with I seemingly no regret or heitation. Bob ~ usod to think the little narrow-guage Presbyterian cars wero dingy and un- C adcrned and ulnpoetic, but then the ~ pr1escco (if the rich madlam an~oard made such a dilference, dlon'it you A know Yu Bob lectured at Spartanburg, S. C., a last Saturday night, and pr. ached in r the Haptist church there Sunday morn-p lng, lie " backed back " upon a river t road side-track again long enough forb one sermon. (No doublt, Hiob's heart is e in the Haptist church, but his pocket-. book is In the Presby terian.) "Sundayu afternoon," the Carolina Spartan says, a referring not to a metaphorical but a e real train, " he was compelled to leave on the vestibule to reach his next ap pointment in Chattanooga." P reaching on "~ following Christ ''- I that was his subject-Sunday morning 1 and thenm Itaking a train Sunday after nloon y Leav ing the Ha aptit, pul pit for the Presbyterian, when the swap in cludedi as " boot " a wealthy dame! hobm's relIgion Is a nico, comfortablo andl elastic one. lie is a born leciturer andl humorist, but somehow or other we feel imp jel led to ilte to him the im mnortail message (of Cleck Wimnbish, of the North Carolina pienitentlary under fusion r'ule, to the drunken peniton tiarry chaplain, Roy. Dr. Bahbb " Let up on preaching awhile.,'--Pittsburg Post. -A :umor having gone abroad over~ the country that Mrs. Stonewall Jack son, w idow (if the distinguished Con fed (irPno general, is absolutely pennless, in want and hopelessly ill and blind, Mrs. Jackson has said to a rep~resenta I tive of the Associatecd Vress that these statements are very much exaggerat e d. It is tigo that she is not in comn potency, but has always been above i want. .her health Is somewhat im |proved and she is not blind, though still sul~ering from a painful disease, I facial neuralgia, Appeals having been made all over the South for her relief, s Mrs. .lackson Is anxious that, the true 3 state of the case should he known, as she is unwilling to accept any dona I tions exceptlthoseo afered as testimon I lil of love and admiration for her hus a bane. RULCS FOI YOUNG MEN. lIo Advice of Experliencel Men to Those Who aro Starting in Life. Louis itepublic. Mon who become successful in the ttor years of their life sometimes vo out the set of guiding rules to hich they attributo their success. lio following rules are said to have son formulated by Andrew Carnegie r his own guidance: 1. Never enter a barroom, not lot e contents of a barroom enter you. 2. Do not uso tobacco. 3. Concentrate. Having entered on a certain line of work, continuo d combine upon that line. 1. Do not shirk ; rather go about ur task. Do not lot any young man ink he has performed his full duty ion he has performed the work as rned him. A man will never rise if acts thus. Promotion comes from coltional work. A man must learn koro his employor's interests lie and sh for thoso. Pho young man who does this is the ung man whom capital wants for a rtner and son-in-law. Ito Is the ung man who, by and by, reaches 3 head of the ilin. . Savo a little always. Whatever your wages, lay by something from 6i. Never speculate. Never buy icks or grain on margin. . Never indorso. When you enter business for yourself, never indorso other.i. It is dishonest. All your iurces and all your credit are the wed property of the men who have isted you. If you wish to help an ir, givo him all the cash you can tro. Never indorso : it is dishonest. Anothor set of rules for young mon follow are laid down by a man who lit up an imnmonso business, the mifications of which extended all or the United State. rhey will bear porsual and are as lows : Kee) good company or none. Never idlc. If your hands cannot be usefully em >yed, attend to tihe cultivation of ur mind. &lways speak the truth. Make few ol)miso. Live up to your engagements. Keep ur own secrots, if you have any. When you speak to a porson, look In in the face. Uood company and good conversa m are the very sinews of virtue. Good charactor is above all things se. N'our charactor cannot be essentially jured except by your own acts. If any one speaks evil of you, let aur life be so that none will believe mn. I)rink no kind of intoxicating liquors. 1Evor live (misfortune excepted) with your incomo. W hen you rotiro to bed, think over hat you have bon doing during the ky. Make no hasto to be rich, if you ould prosper. Small and steady gains give compo incy, with tranquility of mind. Never play at any game of chance. Avoid tenpltation, through foar you iay not withstand it. 'amrn money before you spend It. Never run into debt unless you see a ay to got out again. Never borrow if you can possibly told it. Do not marry until you are able to timort a wife. Never spo evi of v Be ju beforo you are generous. Keep yourself innocent if you would 3 happy. Save when you are young to spend hen you are old. Road over the above maxims at least aco a week. --There are reasons for anticipating piossible disappointment on this re irn of the main body of November soteers. The meteors have been seat sring during the last sixty years and 'e planet Jup'ter has had a hand in 'to vandal work, liut there is certain be a meteoric shower, whIch will be )bbed of seome of its splendor by a right mnoon. T1he maximum of the die lay may be oxpecteod soon after mid Ight on the morning of Novemiber 16. luring the middle of November the astern sky will be eoJpecially beautiful I midnIght. --The impurity of the water in the lississippi Itiver, from w" ich the city S t. L'>uis is suppilled, w ill compel the duption of filtration as a means of umnedy. This work is made more im orative by the nea~ring completion of he Chicago drainage canal. it is pro able that legal proceedings will be in tituted by the city of St. Louis to pro ont the opening of the Chicago canal niess the sewerage emp~tied therein hail have first been submitted to some ilicient process of purlification. -Miss Nancy IHanks was the mother if President Lincoln. A story goes le round, that e bad a loomi which he carried around with her on tripe he would make from her home in iarue ('Ounty to Stophenport, Ill. )uring her journey she would stop at uarious points and weave cloth. Trhe ild loom is still in existence. It was nade of white oak and all the parts ire decayed except the beami, which is tIght inches in diameter and eight 'cot long. -The town of 10sson, which has 100, )O0 inhabitants has just been admitted into the ranks of German cities. The town was made by the Krupp gun works, which was started there by the grandfather of the present owner (Al fred Krupp) in 1810. There are 41,000 employees, and there has never yet been a strike. -Miss Grace McKinley, who was graduated last June, at Mt. Holyoke ollcgo, taking the highest honors of the class, will spand the winter at the White Ilouse. She is the Presidentm -The house in Washington in whici A braham Lincoln died has been reno vatoed in accordance with the act o UJongress providing for it. It is nov used as a museum of Lincoln relics. We claim Alligator Liniment is thI best family rubh. We want you to test it a mur expense, i our claims are not justifla hle we refund the money paidl for samne Mlligator Liniment net only relieves,i cures. Bold everymher. EASY PRICE MAKINGi NEW STORE. Easy price making Is the fruit of good buying. (ood buying means good selling. There are few very good buyers. A good seaman never attempts to cross the sand bar without the use ot a tug. We are con stantly tugging at prices, consequently when a wave of competition rolls our way we ride It with ease. A good merchant evinces his generalship by looking ahead, and the big trade we are having at present '8 due to p ans laid months ago. This Will Interest Housekeepers I We have planned a hinen1 Sale that in ill probability will not come your way tgain sooi, a saving of 25 per cent. on each purchaBc. Thanksgiving is near at hand. value. only. I lot half bleach all Linen, 72 in. 50c 39c 1 " full " " " 2 yde. wide 65~c 48c L " s " Satin 2 " " $t 00 740 1 " " " " 2 "1 1 25 90e 1 "" " " 2" "- 175 $149 1 4 half bleach all Linen 60 In. wide 26c Big values in l)oylies, Napkins, and ready nade cloths. Special Towel values, large size Iluck Linen only loc. New Dresy Goods To arrive this week. Hlomespuns, Broad cloths, Venetians, Whipcords, Plaids, etc. New Capes and Jackets. Every thing in this Big 8tore is entirely new, this being our firat Fall Season. Could n t be otherwise. Special Values in Mattings. Visit our Rug and Matting department, temembor we are the people on Shoes. MAHON & ARNOLD, NO. 211 UPPIER MAIN STRET, J. 11. A101WAN & IRo.'s OLD STAND. Agents for McCali Bazar Patterns. OPIN DOOR POLICY IN CHINA. The United States with England and Japan Ought to Preserve and Pro tect Common Trade Interest and -Mtitghts for Unrestricted Com morce in %Ma- and Eastern Coun. tries. 'r- -" . At a meeting of the Souther C Spinners' aesoolation in Charlotte, N. C., between 50 and 60 mills being rep. resented, the following preamble and resolutions, offered by D. A. Tompkins. and seconded by R. B. Miller, were. unanimously adopted : " Whereas, the increasing manuface turing interest of the United States from nine billion dollars value in 1890 to twenty billion (estimated) in 1900., make it plain that our domestic mar kets can no longer take all our manu factured produots ; and, Whereas, The Southern Cotton manu facturing interests alone have increas ed from the produet in 1890, of one and one-half million spindle to five million. (estimated) in 1900, and the develop ment of trade for our surplus Ameri can made cotton goods has been largely iu China and othe~r Orilential coun tries. Therefore, be it resolved, That we urge upon the President of the Unitedi States and our Senators and Represen tatives in Congress, the following measures : F'irst. The preservation of the in tegrity of the Chinese empire, of all. our treaty rights with that empire, and the maintenance of an open door pl)Oicy in China with the commerce ofi all nations. Second. Vigorous prosecution of the Philippine war to a conclusion and the restoration of order in that territory by our government. Third. Construction, without delay of an Isthmian ship canal. F"ourth. Construction of a cable fromt '4he P. acific coast to Hawaii, Jaan China and the Philippines and other Oriental points. Resolved, That we consider that a large degree of the importance of the last three items liks in the value of those measures in accomplishing the first item and in pro tecting our trade in China and other Eastern countries. Resolved, That we recommend, if it he necessary, co-operation of our gov ernment with the government of Eng land and Japan to preserve and pro tect a common trade interest ad treaty rights for unrestricted com merce in China and other Eastern countries. R~esolved, That we recommend to Congress such revision of our naviga tion laws as will foster the develop ment of our merchant marine service to an extent to handle our expanding foreign commerce. Reolved, That we recommend to Congress such increase in our navy as will make it fully adequate to protest our commerce in all seas and in all parts of the world. R3solved, That printed oopies of . these resolutions be sent to the Preal .dent of the United States and to our t Senators and Representatives in Coa-. gross and to the mr.