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E LE'S JOR VOL 9.---NO. 2. PICKENS S. C., THURSDAY, IANUARY 25, 1900. ONE DOLLAR A YEAR. Silver Dollars Given Aw Greenville, S We have plaeed in our store i Silver Dollars. We have had made ft will unlock the box. With every C given a key attached to a tag. Keys month after October let, and the 11ol be given $5.00 ats a presont. This is a new and novel way we i in cash what we have heretofore paid greater number will be benefitted. AT SMITH & You will find the b Men's Wear at GREENVI Sole agents for Stetson's Stiff Hats. Se IT IS AIL JUSr THE SAME. DIFFEIRENT NAMES FORlt STEAL ING. Bill Arp Writes a Chapter on the Prevailing Sin of the Ninet enth Century-The Darkey's Pica on the Score of Foraging. I have always contended that steal ing little things was the besetting sin of the negro and was a rar'e trait. And that cheating in a trade was a race trait in Jews and Gentiles. Wt white folks do not call it cheating, but say he got the advantage or he got th best of the bargain, but this advantagt is generally got by deception Or a sup pression of the truth. The negro smooths his sin over by calling it tak ing things- just as our cook once saiL to me when I coInplained about he: stealing lard and flour and rice anc such things : " Mr. Major, I don'. think you miss what I takes." Well I didnt very much, for she never toot much aG a time, but it annoyed we fo. her to think she was fooling me wher she wasnt. But that same negro woulh sit up all night with a sick memoer o the family and was always good an, kind to our children. Now the whit, man rarely btealn anything and th negro as rarely cueats you in a trade. Before the civil war the negroes' mus, frequent crime was stualing chickens and he got so expert In that business that a law was passed making it a penal offense for anybody to buy chickens fiom a negro even though he had raised them in his own yard. We coum buy foot mats and brooms and baskets, but we must not buy chickens. Law or no law , he continued his mid night vocation, and if the command nent had said thou shalt pot covet thy nieighubr's UhiLUenLO it w- utd 'aIv. been all the same to him. First covet and then steal was part of his reli gion. I was ruminating about this because I bought a turkey yeeterday from a negro for a very low price and I won dered where he go it. I didn t ques tion him, for I didn't want to hurt his feelings. When I was In North Caro lina a friend told me about an old darkey who was on trial foe stealing a turkey and the proof was positive, and vet he did not seem to be alarme Iiis lawyer was discouraged and saf "Uncle Jack, it looks like they have got you." "No dey aint, Mas John; dey aint got me yet and dey aint ag wine to get me. Tell you ho.v it is, Mae John. De jedge seten up dar was my young. master when de war broke out and not, gwine to send me to do pen. No, sir ; he aint, he aint done forget wha I know." But Mas John had lost confidence, for he knew that the judge would do ills duty and ex ecute the law. in a short time the trial was over and the judge asked Uncle Jack if he bad anything to say in extenuation of his crime. The old gray-headed man got up with a grunt and looking around upon the spectators and then at the judge sa'd : " Nuffln' much, Mas Judge, numai' much. Only die you know all about dat old war wbich we all got whooped and you haint forgot how I went cud wid you to de army for you was a cappen and old master told me to go 'long and take keer of ye-u, and you knows I did de very bes' I codd for four mighty long years and how one time you got wounded and I staid by you ontell you was well again and hew anoder time you took the measles and me, too, and 1 stay by you and nus' you and how anoder time dem yankees cotch me andl I got away in de night and come back to you and how some times you get out of money and out of sumfen to eat all at de same time and you call me up and say, 'Jack, y'ou mus' go out a foragin' and get us sum fin,' andl I go nut late in de night and bring you chickens and rostlin'.. erni's and one time I bring you a turkey, ant you neber ax me nuflin' about whar I got him and you never glv' me any money to buy him, did you. Mas Jedge. You call it foragin' don, didnt you, Mae Jedge, and if it w-as foraging e how cum it to be stealin' now ?"gde By tbis time the courtroom was c'on vulsed with laughter and the juidge could not conceal his emotion, for 'his recollection of the old darkov's faith fulness was revived afresh. 1:10 wip~ed his brow and his eyes, and said : "Mr. Sheriff adjourn court. Uncle Jackl will pay for that turkey, but you must not do so any more. When you need anything you must come to me. I havent forgot you.''.. it is amazing to read our penitep tiary reports where we learn that there are over 2.000 negroes In the State and county chainganga who are there for stealing of some kind. Meal of them are of the new issue who were never in slavery and a majority have advanced under freedom from simple larceny to burglary. Chickens are toa small game for the modern dark ey. On' of my farm hands was sent there tea two years, and was disgusted with hit asdiates and said, " I tell you w bat, boss, dar is some mean folks in de chaingang. Fact is, dar. is some folki jusat as mean in dar as dar is outeri dar.' Cobe says that -Cuba is a good ay by Snlith & Brisfow oth Carolnn. i handsome Oak Money-Box containing >r us a nitiber of keys, some of which ish Purchaso' of- $1.00 or more will be chn be tried the first Saturday in each dersvf Keys That Unlock the Box will wye of advertising,. and give to our trade for advertising, with the hqpe that tho BRISTOW'S est of everything in Popular Prices!! LLE, S. C. c our special line of Men's $3.50 Shoes. place to send the darkeys to, for the trees are small and the chickens roost low, but the new negroes dont seem to hanker after chickeas like the old fashioned negroes. They had rather snatch a lady's pocketbook and run. It is astonishing how many chances they will taice to get something for nothing, and will take the risk of arrest and punishment and yet I have never heard of one being turned out of church for stealing. War will make white folks steal and Judge Dooley believed that mean %vhisky would. The old-time lawybr used to tell how he was broke of tak iOg too -nuc h, whep he was on the bench of the Nort hern cil'duit. A man '>y name of Sterrett kept a dirty saloon anar the hotel and the judge patroniz:.d aim every morning before breakfast ind by court time was pretty mellow. One cold morging the mischievous awyers borro'ed; half .dozen silver ,poons from the landlady'of the hotel ind slipped them into the judge's over :oat pocket. He never discovered ,hem until court adjourned for dinner *nd was dre'dfdi-ky; puzzled and per alexed. He recogn.z3d the spoons, far tney had his landlady's mark and were ancient heirlooms in her family. He -ent for her to come to his room and ,ave them back with- abject apology and said it must have been Sterrett's ffhisky that done it. It sobered him up and made him very serious all the afternoon. Next morning a triling felluw was put on trial for stealing a package of pocketknives from a stol'e in town. He was easily convicted and the judge asked him if he had any' thing to say for himself. " Notbin,' judge," said he, " only that I was urinking an' don't remember about it." The judge leaned forward and said, "Young man, whre 4id you get your linnor ?1 "At St-5rrAtt.'a." aid h& A Wlac.g& F f * I yD1 A. r-.5eriff-dis . Acr 'Drfotly aware that Sterrett's whisky will make any body steal." .W~Adlers diin't steal nuch dur ing the o'ivil war, but sonretimes we were sorel ,.tp nied fell ome times we k . i I ofys' mneat and longed fio' irg.befti I re member that when. . V *amped near Orange courthouse there was a lovely little shoto that took up where our horses were tet erd. It belonged to a -crosq old man vwt& lived on a hill near .by-a d ajok 'Ayor rode up there one even ng tVd'- triU to buy it. The old man reftised-in an insolent manner, for he was a union man and was mad bs cause our army had camped on his land and was cutting his timbeor. Cap tain Cothran. wps a good shot with a pistol ansi aa~s .pro'ud ot, liis kkill, and so the nex1 evening" Majof Ayer bet him a quarter that he couldn't shoot that pig's eye out: He took the bet and won, and our faithful servant Trip dressed and batted It, and we feastei. . he. old m~an came p'owling arourad S.efry.ay.h11nting {Ifjat pig and it .Was h~ardeX. to li6.'Qnit Of It sthan it Was to steal It. But ithW morning we brdkh camp we sent Tip up there and paid the old woman two dollars and quieted our consoiee. A fat shote was almost irresistible, One tinie George Burnett and Tonm Ayer killed one under similar circum stances and sent a quarter to our mess. The old man missed his hog ,n dite time, and when he inquired of Burnett if they had seen it arouna, Burnett wbisperedo-him taCaptain StIll Well's mesh ad fres hig for dinner yesterday bril he mustent tell who told him. I belonge.l to Stillwell's mess and the first thing we knew Colonel Yeiser had us -ummoned be fore him to be trioq.oon a otharge of stealing the old 'ma'n.'s pig. It was a kind of- mock trial' and rehutted in eon victing Burnetht .and. Ayer., and they had- to pay for tepig. But I am pleased to say of our . Cunfeder-ate .flagrantiW.ue~l i'obbery, or pillage, nor did I ever kdowr of but,'one Instance, of a soldier' violating the sacred rights of a man's family. At Centerville the Louisiana Tigers, pis they were called, committed a palpfulppti'gge in the country near'Iy kad wheei llnmedilately arrested and tried [bat evening and shot tl de t'ioningtt sunrise. Old -Je* M da ly~nch law out of I-sighth en he had a Sure case. There are various kinds of stealing, but the most aggravatIng to -writers .for the p ross is the ,stealing by the press. T wo'it'ien ".'-nen Birming ham and the other, in Los Augeles, Oalifornia-he 'rscnly sent me' copies of patpers published in their' towns in rliob the said papers have copied fromn The OblWge.nter-Ocean the it er 1 wrote for The Constitution about P -Izer, Soutb' 4)arolina. My~ -name is not mentioned, inor is the let ter credited to The Constitution ; only a few Immaterial changes have been made, just enough to make it appear that Tne Inter-Ucean sent a reporter down there to write up the town. L have known petty thieves sent to the c haingang for doing things not half so mean as that. BILL ARP. I- Washington's birthday is to he celebrated in the island of Guam by the abolition of nliver. INQUIRIES ABOUT THU PHIILIPPINUS. AMEKICA FOLLOWING THE EX AMPLE OF GREAT BtITAIN. Figlting a Catholic Popwilation and Making Treatles With Mohanne dans-Protecting Slavery and Poly gamy Under the Stars and Stripes -- rhe Trade that Does Not Follow the Flag. The following are extracts froqi the speech of Hon. Richard F. Pettigrew, of South Dakota, delivered in the United States Senate on the 15th in stant : The President of the United States, in his speech at Sioux Falls, S. Dak , in October last, said : " That from the hour the treaty was ratified it became our territory ; there was but one authority and but one sov erignty that euld be recognized any where in those islands, and it became our duty to restore order, to preserve peace, to protect life and property." Yet he went to war with the Chris. tian people of that country, with those who believed in the Catholic religion, and made a treaty with the Mohamme dana by which they ware to set up and maintain their own government almost absolutely independent and free from us. If he had granted to the Chris-lans of the Philippines the same rights he granted to the lit.veholders and poly gamists of the Philippines there would have been no war whatever. And yet we, as a great Christian nation, select for self-govern mnent the slaveholding Mohanamedans, occupying more than one-third of the area of the entire grou p, and proceed to establish what? Not Christianity, for they are already Christians ; but we make the effort to sboot Protestantism into the Catholic population of the rest of the islands. If our filg fl iata over that entire re gion, and if, as the President said, it is absolutely under the domain and con trol of the constitution of the United States, seems to me that he violated the constitution when he made the treaty with the Sultan of Sulu, and that he ought to be impeached. Mr. President, it would be in accord more with my ideas of American insti tutions if we had gone to the Sultan of Sulu and said, " You must abandor, polygamy and slavery, and if you do not do it and recognize the power and authority of the government of tht United States over the whole group of islands under your control we wili wage war upon you until you do it,' instead of going to the people who had bad been our allies, the Christian peo pa of the northern islands, and saying to them, " Unless you surrender your constitution which you have adopted. and which is framed after our constitu tion, unless you surrender your right as a government of a free people, w( will proceed to, kill you until you do." Instead of drawing a trail of blood over those islands, where the population can read and write, -where they have em braced the same religion as ours and pray .to the same God, it would have been better had we attacked the so lled barbarous people of the southern Islands. I might read several other extracts from the President's speech all to the 3ame effect. He has hardly made , tpeech without an allusion to the flag. until I am almost convinced that b< receives his direction from the English painiter, for it is the same song always t.hat England sings whenever she pro poses to rob somebody. Whenever En gland concludes to go upon an expedi tion and plunder some of the weaker nations of the world, she makes her first appeal .to patriotism, and then, ste p by step, goes on until she has com mitte. the wrong, has transgressed. and then declares that the flag hat. been fired on and that no Englishman must question the right or wrong of what tney arc doing until the enemy is defeated and the country annexed. We are pursuing the same course. Our minister of state was trained in the English school, and he has come home with their ideas and notions and is going to try their way of humbug gIng the people of this country as the people of England have been humbug ged. You can do it in England, but you can not do it heru. More than a million of the pcepic of England do not vote. Most of the population have been degraded by being herded in manu facturing towns until a very large per cent. of her population have no prop erty, no capacity, and no opinions cx cept to toady to the aristocracy. How appropriate, Mr. President, that the restoration of slavery and the new interpretation of the Declaration of Independence should come together. It seems to me, however, that it marks the saddest chapter in the history of t-hat great political organization, the Republican patty. It came into being as a protest against slavery, as the special champion of the Declaration of Independence, and it goes out of being and out of power as the champion of slavery and the repudiator of the Di claration of Independence. The President says that moral rea sons compel us to stay in the Philip pines, and that we, under God's direc. tion, owe a duty to mankind, and more of similar cant. Here is what John Morley, the English statesman, and wirtor and biographer of Gladstone, says with regard to England's policy in this same connection : " irst, (speaking of England,) you iush on into territories where you have no business to be and wbere you had promised not to go ; secondly, your intrusion provokes resentment, and, in these wild countries, resentment means resistance ; thirdly, you instantly cry out that the people are rebellious and that their act is rebellion (this in spite of your own assurance that you have no intention of setting up a permanent sov oreignty over them); fourthly you ser~d a force to stamp out the rebellion, and Of thly, having spread bloodshed, con fusion, and anarchy, you declare, with hands uplifted to the heavens, that moral reasons force you to st-ay, for if you were toleave, this territory would beleft in acondition which no civilized power could contemplate with equani mity or composure." There is not a thing there that does not absolutely accord with the e xcuses giyen by the imperialists why we should abandon our forme form of government and conquer and rule agaiht their will an uawilling people. What blessing has England given to her colonier that has justified this plan throughout the world ? Ireland came first, and the persecutions of Ire land were justified on a doctrine of benevolent assimilation--that they were Catholics, and therefore, unless they were converted from Catholicism, they would go to the devil, and it was England's great and grand mission to make them Protestant anyhow. She has succeeded neither in the one n')ir the other. Her course in Ireland has been one of the blackest pages in the history of the world-starvation and plunder. If England will govern Ireland as she has done, what right has she to the claim that sbe can confer benef- a upon any country. What is there in Eng land's example that can justify us in undertaking the same work? The mio. erablo, miserable, contemptible rot of Rudyard Kipl ng whore he talks about the white man's burden it seems to me in the light of English history is con temptible-the white man's burden to confer the curses of Eiglish rule upon the other nations of the world. England commenced with [reland How is it with India? They have made no converts practically to Chris tianity in India; neither have the na tives learned the English language. None of the people of India talk Eng lish. They have to keep an army of 210.000 men to hold them in subjection and prevent them from securing mo dern implements of destruction, while they trample upon their riarhis as a people. What blesting has Eigland conferred upon fndia? Nothing but the fact that taking away her food supply has caused the starvation of a million of men in India every year for years, and some years six or seven millions of people in a year. One hun dred and fifty million dollars' worth of the foog products of India are shipped away to pay pensions in England, and the result is that the want of that tood causes the people of India to starve. Compare the provinces of India that do not recognize English rule,"that are under an English protectorate, and you will find that there is no starvation there. The native princes rule, and the people govern themselves, and E - gland simply has a suzerainty over them. There is no starvation in thost: provinces ; the starvation is in the En liish part of India, where the English system of robbery and plunder holds sway. India gives no money to the English treasury, but India is a field 'or exploiting private enterprise, and thus further enriching the already >ver-rich classes that govern the En glish empire. What of New Z 'aland ? Did the con quest of New Z aland confer the bless ngs of Christianity upon New Z3aland'? Why, it resulted in the destruction of the inhabitants. To-day a great colony f Englia people are in New Z3aland, but the inhabitants who formerly oc cupied that land have disappeared as the result of English government. flow lia IL in Egypt ? The Eg'yptian government was bad, and bad for the same reason that the Englicih govern *xent was bad ; but Enga-.;d went into Egypt to enforce the collection of a usurious debt for money which Egypt never received. England went there to force upon that people a debt which was composed almost entirely of inter est at 26 per cent. on a small sum of money, until to-day every acre of Egypt that is tillable is taxed $10 a year. Every man, woman, and child in Egypt of native population, toiling sad tilling the soil, is a slave to the English taxgatherer. Three thousand ti've hundred Englishmen wring the ,.axes by imprionmeut and by the lash from those people, and yet the ac-called .ivillzed world looks on with approval. [n order to better enlarge their capa sity to pay taxes and bear burdens, the English officials have compelled those people to toil in a systematic manner, leaving nothing for themselves but a ,are existence and a bar-e subsistence. 8o It Is everywhere that England hab gone. As I said before, England's first con quest was Catholic Ireland, and the ex cuse for oppression there was that the Irish were Catholics. How appropriate that in our first act In the drama of Im perialism we should undertake the cocquest of another Catholic country, should undertake the conquest of the Philippines, and should make the eame miserable and contr'mptlble excuoe which has justified England's atroci tiles in Ireland during all time. From the pulpits of this country we hear prayer-s for our success in order that we may introduce Christianity. Oh, Mr. President, if we are to go to war against Catholics, it is not necessary to go half way around the world to do so. We have more of them at home, although there are 6,000,000 of them in the Philippines. If these islands were rich in every mineral men desire, if their supplies of gold surpassed those of the Trn vaal, if every ott~er metal precious and desirable were in unlimited Quantities, if their soil were so fertile that it sur passed even the famosa valleys of the N'ile, if they could produce ever"' comn fort with half the effort with which It can be produced elsewhere throughout the world, yet I would Oppose the an nexation of these islands because it Is wrong, because. it leaves thosn who have sneered at us in our claim tnat we were advtcates of freedom a jus tiflation for their sneers in the fu ture. But, Mr. President, I hold that we can not profit from these islands. None of our race live within tho Trropics. Thkere is not a colony of our race, the Aryan race, anjwhero within 22 do grees of the equator. The men of our race who have neon doing a commercial business in Manila do not have their families there. They raise a family of half-mixed natives in Manila and leave their real families at home. So it has been with commercial England through the Trropicseverywhere, for-you can no more produce a white man, a man of our blood, in the Tropics than you can a plar bear. Cimatic conditions place their limits upon men just as firmly as upon plants and upon animals. You can not claim that our race have not been colonists and that they have not gone forward to plant colonies throughout the wo i d, for they have ; but they settae in that belt ar-mund the world, between the twenty frth and uitty-tfth degrees of north or south la titude. Mr. President. we are told by the President of the United States and by the orators who favor imperialism that this will be a paying venture-thatt trade follows the flag. Well, the mor ality of that argument can be fairly I) lustrated, I think, in this way : If a buy of a numerous family should cross a wide desert and find at the foot of a mountain an old man with a family of children, possessed of vast wealth in gold, jewels, horses, and cattle, a-d should return to his brothers and say, " There are nine of us, and I believe, if we go together, we can overturn the old man, who is not fit to bring up those children anyway, and rob him o' bi wealth, and I think It will be a profit. able venture," and they should start out and accomplish that act, it seems to me they would stand upon exactly the same plane as the man who btands upon this floor and advocates taking all the Philippine Islands because it would pay. lut, Mr. President, trade does not follow the flag. If It be true that trade follows the flag, then England's trade with her colonies ought to ha a good example and an argument in its favor. Toat ought to settle the question Trade follows the best markets, and England's experience is a refutavlon of the doctrine that trade follows the flag. So far as the Eagllsh tropical colo nies are concerned, Eagland only sold to them 71 cents' worth of goods last year for each Inhabitant in those col onies, and most of that was to supply her own army and her owr ofli3ebold era, who wanted English goods. Her trade would have been intlitestimal, almost absolutely nothing, with her tropical colonies, except for hert army in India of 70 000 Englishmen and her equally great army of oilicoholders there. So, such an argumenu is all nonsense. Trade does not follow the flag. The United States can only secure tropical countries as colonies. As Schurman, our commissioner to the Philippines, said, the Sultan of Su.u and his people would tight, and there fore it was not well to bother with them. So the people who inhabit the. temperate zone will fight, and our only place to get a people who are easy to control, a people who will not fight, too bard, a people who are not armed with modern implements of war, a people who can be run over with battalions of our troopa, Is in the tropics. How, then, in the light of England's exoerlence, In the light of the fact that England has practically no trade with the Inhabitants of her tropical colonies, except the trade that comes from supplying her officeholders and her army, can we expect to have much trade with the people of the Philip pines ? H-.w are we going to get rich keepIng a standing army in the Phillp pines, so as to make people whose wages are not over 5 cents a day trade with us ? Mr. President, in the Philippines we do not even suppiy our own army. If trade follows the flag, 1.- seems to me that the trade with our own army ought to follow the fl4g. So prone is trade to seek the best markets that our army is supplied with potatoes and beef and butter and pork from the En glish colonies ; practically none of it comes from the United States. Our soldiers are clothed by the E i glish contractors at Hong Kong. Only shoes..and a few canned goods go from the United States, and the reason they go is because we export shoes and that people everywhere can buy shoos cheaper in this country than anywhere else, thus proving conclusively that trade does no,. follow the Rag, but goes to the best markLets. Tu coal 1,hai prop~els our ships across the Pacolac -is English coal. We do not even patron ize our own coal mines on the western coasit. Every vessel coming this way3 or going that, way in massing Nagasaki takes on a load of English coal. Ouw transports are chartered by the gov ernent, and, therefore, every trans port carries goods from the United States free of cost to the producers lt seems to me exceedingly strange why, if trade will follow the flag, it does not get under the flag and just float over and supply our own army in the tropics. What Is there In the future to war rant us to believe that trade will here after follow the flag in the Philippine? [ should like to have somebody tell me We made a treaty with Spain by which we agreed that the Pnilipplnes should have the " open door," so that all ths world could trade there througrh all time to come. Therefore we broke down the barriers of protection, aban doned the policy upon which the 1 publican party has ridden into power for years. We declared that we would have the "open door," there by destroy ing absoluteiy all hope of any trade in she future with the people of the Pil Ippines, for, tinder the decions of our Supreme Court, we can not, impose a tarIff upon their productsa unless we amendl the constituilon. So their products will come to us free of duty. The tobacco made into into cigars by thbe nimble lingers of those capable Malays will closme the to bacco and cIgar factories of this coumn try and drive our labor into othber chan, neis of employment, There is no rea son why they can not supply unlindt odly the cigars for A merican consump. t~on. La~bor there Is cheap, labor is at undant,, and New Eingiand's money the vast fortunes of the men who have accumulated by sho control of monopo lies in our country-will go there-tu exploit this labor, go there to -ma~ke cotton goods out of Chinese cotton to os Rold in the American markat. Mr. President. I saw a cotton mill in China havIng 34,000 splnd les, a modern mill, wit,. i think, 2,100 ChInese em iployetes or laborers, sivery og'e of them men, full grown. Thero were no chil dren and no women in that mill, an'd ju8t. one Englishman. Evory otipr em ployee, every spinner, carder, weaver, engineer, every man runo'ng a loom, was a Chinaman , and the average, wages-mark that-amouinted to *3 50 a month ; andl they hoard themselves. Desides, they were paid in silver, in Mexican dollars, equa' to $1 75 in our money. Yet the American laborer Is wn ited to compete with 10 000 000 of this kind of labor by annextng the Philippines. It seems to me the sum and ahannc GREENVLLE'S. GREATEST STORE Y "THE NE\V S'ORL"' r This store's business, ending with the old year, is phenomenal and to continue to merit your atronage shall be our constaht aim throu out tlh new year. We have proven time after time the truthfulness of our statenimis, and the straightforward jprinci lles upon which this business is con duce . and to furtherex ,and our business along these ies we shall provide the nest goods for the people at the lowest prices, and lower than same qualities can be had else% le re. Our Big January Sale of rhite Goods, Embroideries, Laces, Madrass Cloths, Pereales, iuelin Under wear, etc.. is attracting much attlention. Commencing Monday morning, next, we will add many additions. Special Mentioni. 2000 yards 10c and 12%c C rash for ladies suits and skirts at 6c a) ard--nev patterns. 20, pieces line all 8ilk Satin libbon. will go on sale at 10c a yard for choice. 1,50 yards line 40 inch India Linens ..value 18c and 23c. for 12%/c. A Percale Bargain. 2,500 yards fine 12%c Pereales in new spring patterns in this sale 10o. ate lot 3J inch Percales, dark and light, at So Embroidery Values. 5100 yards of 414 yard strips. Sold by the strips 25c to18c according to widths. Novelties in Ladies Neckwear 1. 200 line M ull Ties, embriderod and hem stitched edge-just the thing-in this sale 18c One lot Bovinet Ties, 35c value, only 23o. New Shoes Arrived. A new shipme, t of ladies fine shoes. A- Remember the ab e sale and take advantage of tthe opportunity. MAHON & ARNOLD, NO. 2xx UPPER MAIN STR"IT, t hJ. 11. MOUIGAN & BRo.'s OLD STAND. k Agents for McCall Bazar Pat terns. r THE CASH a h STALK IS CHEAP n There is a vast differenace between hi talking aund doIng what you talk about n loing. We always do what we say, i. and mean to back up every thing we -put in print,. Ladies Muslin Underwear. Jus-t received a flne line and offering them at very close dgures, GownR, Chemlis, Drawers, Coats, Corset Covers. Drawers for the little ones, 100 each. Embrcideries and White Goods. We will placo on sate this week the largest and prettlest line of IEmbrold ries and Allevere ever offered -in I Dmbroidery Net (or yokes 250 to 600. .Paris Muslin, sheer as organdy and 'iiwahi ik lawn, 8-4 wide, 50., and Persian Lawn 263 to 50,. Spreads- Spreads. We are still offering them at last 4mmer'd prices. New Percales and Ginghams. Percales at 7c, 8o, and 103,--great * 50 F'reh Gingham at 9jo. 20o Pique, now, at 15o--beauties, Towels., Towels. Tbo beat 5e andi 10o towels on earth, Come in and price goods ; no trouble ..o sbOw thorn. r .Yours for business, R. L R. Bentz Leader in Low Prices. The Cash Drv Gonods Storm of the whole scheme is to find a fiel where cheap labor can be socur, d, a bor that will not strike, tbat does no belong to a union, that does not, nee, an army to keep it In leading stringe that will make goods for the trusts c this country ; and, as trusts dominate the St. Louis convention and own th Republican party, it 13 a very prope enterprise for them to engage in. England has not been enriched b her conquests. To-day, what is tb happiest country in the world I It I little Swizerland. Where l there th best distribution of wealth, the bet opportunity for. man ? Where is ther the least poverty, misery, and distrese it Is In Switozerland, without colonlei It is not in Etgland. Hoe cocquosts hav bestowed no l'lessings upon her people Most of her peop e have no property most of the people of England owl nothing. Two-thirds of t-em-66 pr cent. (of them-owvn nothing, whjt about 222 000 persons own all the pro perty of Great Britain. You ask me what I would do witi the PIlhimflnes. I would draw ou army back to Manila. I would stend t( the Philipplu people asurance tha they could set up their own t ov- ro ment-a republic, such as they hav set up under tl-e'r consttuton, framr after ours, providing, as it uoos, fo universal education, for the protecti1 of life and property, and I would sa to the world, " Hands off I" Th ein would try to neutralz that, cunt ry that Is, I would try to make a treat with the nations of the world by whic those islands and their waters ehoul -je neutral ground, where any ve-;ist o any country could go and coal an trade-not free trade, if they chose t put up a tariff wall against al! th world, but it should ho equal to all but no nation could go there to flghl I would do what Europe has don wit~h Switzerland and what they hav done with the Suez Oanal ; and if th nations of all Earopo would not agre to it, I woula say, ", Hinds off ; we wil plant. a republic on tneshores of AsIa. The Malay race have shown t-heir ca pacily for governing in their triumpt in Japan. No nation in the work stands higher in the scale of civilizi tion than the Malays of Japan, a kin dred race to the people of the Pnillp pines. Give then a chance, and the3 will plant r'publilcan principles on tht short a of Asia that will spread to tha continent and .undermin and over throw the despotim of colonial rul and the despotism of monarelices. -Four modern Oweilings, which ari en be the flinest private residences It Brooklyn, will be built on the site o lalmage's Tabernacle. The edile was burned on the 13,h of May, 189-1 the day Mr. Talmage preached kit farewell sermon there previous to hi depar ure for Europe. The Hoetel L t gent; next to the church, was deetroye by iro at the same time, the total los being $1.250,000. Since that time ther has been nothing built on the plot. I is grass grown, and some of the ruin of tihe tabernacle are btill there. I the tabernacle were four large stone .which Talmage had brought bac with hIm from the Hlly Land, an thay wer incorporat.ecl in the intorio walls. One of the new houses has al ready been sold before it Is built fo $48,000. -The Gettysburg, Pa., Star an Sentinel, In commenting on a story r< contly printed In a Philadelphia pape to the effect that back of Gettysbur there Is located a factory building ei gaged In manufacturtng battletlol " relics," calls attention to the fai that the manufacture of hogus relics not necosary, as .,here are still enoug bullets, buttons, swords, buckles ar pieces of bone on the battleild supply the demand for some years come, and all of them genuine. .-1, I's estimated that the rallrore in the United States issue two mli< ft*e passes annual'y. Just out of reach, is where every ma would like to be when danger thireatene himit. Disease is more dangerous tha any wild beast. To be just out of reac of disease, is safer than to en gage it i a death struggle with doubtful result. Trhe secret of keei inlg just out 'of reac of disease is in keeping tho blood pure and rich. Purn llood offers no breed inj ground for disease germs. Rich bloot creates A vigorous vital force to resist dis ease. Thlis ideal condition of the bloo< Is best obtained by the use of Dr. Pierce' Golden Medical Discovery. In thou sands of cases where there has been o1 stinate cough, bronchitis, spitting. c blood, weakness or other ailmients whic1 if neglected lea-d on to consumnptiori "Golden Medical Discovery" has heale< the dliseas-e and put the life just lout of reach of the dlest'foyer. There is no alcohol or other Intoxicant containied in "Goldeni M'edical Dis covery." "Afer' using nhout five hot Medical 'tDiscoverv may boy sets to be all right." writes. Mr. J1. v. P'rice.'of Oz7an'k..Mon. roe Co., Oio. "lie was very hadi when , co,:nineced to give him, tlbc -Colden'Medical DIls covery.' Tihe -dctrjrs claimied he had consumptioni andl we' 'doctored wilt 'tem .ntil he was past walking. It has been tfn mointhis since he stopped takin~g your medicin~e and lhe Is - tIll Inn godd-enl(h. We are very thtankful to you fr savinng our sona." ,Jree.. '4'he -People's Common Sensa Medlicaj. Adviser Is sent free by ur Piece;c lihffalo, N. Y., on1 .receipt .0 *tamnps to defray expe)se of mallnj only. ,Send 21 one-cent statiips for pape covere1rt'ldio, 'fr 31 stamaps for sam editioln in clgth binding. WANTED A few thotpsand fe'lt of one in<h Q *arter Sawed Oa&k Lumber. GAtlES DESK 00.,