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May Closing and June Opening Bar 40 inch India Linen 10c Fine India Linen 10c, 15c and 20c 46 inch Silk Finish Batiste 20c, 25c and 35c Sheer Linen Lawn and Shirt Waist Linen 25c to 50c fife? iS3:0 N'A H P We have gotten the habit of bargain giving and we just can't get away from it and we wouldn't if we could, for it is the practice of never giving the trade less and often a great deal more than full value for every dollar spent with us thai has built our business to its present great proportions. We waut to close our May and open our June business with a great rush of buyers and we have succeed ed in getting many attractive values which should draw crowds of purchasers, Read list of specials below. White Satin Striped Lawns White Pique 10c 10c Beautiful ranges of Colors in Silk Mulls 25c and 50c Great Bargains in Colored Batiste and Figured Organdies 10c A Great line of Val and Torchon Laces for trimming all kinds of white and colored wash goods, price ?r> ?q 20c yd. What do You Want in Shoes If it's Tan, if it's Patent, if it's Vici, if it's Canvas, if it's a Novelty Last, if it's a Conser vative Toe, or a good old Common Sense Last, come to us, we have all of above for men, wom en and children and the quality of our Shoes is always as high or a little higher than the price. Men's Pat., Tan, Vici and Valour 5.00, 4.00 3.50 3.00 and $2.50 Women's Tan, Pat., and Vici 4.00, 3.50, 3.00, 2.50 and $2.00 Children's Pat., Tan and Vici 5Qc to $2.00 Many Cheaper Grades, too, if you want them. Skirts, Shirt Waists We call special attention to a line of Drum mers Samples in Shirt Waist and White Wash Skirts at bargain prices Nicely Embroidered Waists, in Lawn, Batiste and Lingerie 50c to $2.00 flay Closing and June S Opening Specials. 5} 36 inch unbleached Homespun 39 inch Unbleached Homespun ( 8c Staple Ginghams Good Quality Chambray Yard wide Percale Sheer Striped Lawn Big Range Style Figured Batiste 40 inch Whithe Lawn All Silk Ribbons Wide Guaranteed Taffeta Silk White Embroidery Wash Belts f)0 Dozen Ladies' Taped Bleached Vests May Closing and Opening Sale. be Elegantly Trimmed Jap Silk Waist 2.50 to $4 Beautiful Champagne Colored Lace Waist 2.50 to $5.00 Nice line Wash Skirts i 25 to $2.00 We are now showing some < xcoptinnal values In Tailor Made Voile Skirts in the laust ?tyics 5, 6.50, 7.50, 8.50 and $10 Our Clothing and Men's l:ur= nishing Business has been great, but our stock is still very complete, you will find in this department all that's new and seasonable. In Tailor Made Suits we can fit anybody and i itr styles are the nobbiest. Price $25, $20, $18.50, $10.60 and $15 A Grand Line Up-To-Datc o i i L2.50 and $10 See ourgreat line Extra Paul ; 8.00, 7.00, ?.50 and $5.00 Nobby Pants l.Qg to $4.50 oorvnte i'v nf?'. or MICH A . L S ? 8 T ERN FIN'/: CLOTHING 19c June You Can't have too many Shirts, see our Lyon Brand Shirts 1,50, J.,25 and $1.00 } The very newest blocks in Derbies, Felt and I Panama Mats 1,50 to $5.00 U Elegant lino .Men's Silk and \Y..si) Ti >s J 25c to 50c [ Give us your business and in return we will giveyou the best attention and full value for your money. J. E. MINTER The Reliable Store. Unanswerable Argument for Prohibition. (Continued from page live.) individual, the other is a plea for license for the individual community, and both rest upon a denial of that great declaration of the Master that "No man liveth to himself." Neither does any city live to itself. Hut in taking up this argument there is one matter which 1 would bring to the reader's attention that many voters .seem to have overlooked. Perhaps you may even say: "Well, if Wilmington and Salisbury want, whiskey, I am not going to interfere." The import ant point, you sverlook is that it is not merely Salisbury and Wil mington to which you give the privilege of selling whiskey when you cast your ballot May 26th "For the Manufacture and Sale of Intoxicating Liquors." A vote against prohibition then means to give the privilege of unlimited whis key saloons not only to Salisbury and Wilmington, but to every little 2 i in corporated town in North Carolin, once the "wets" got in the majority -your own market and court house town among them, anil your own boy's life may not impossibly be the price of your folly hero. And seeing that a vote against pro hibition means to give your town the privilege of whiskey selling, you may see the more clearly how completely the airy theory of "local self-govern ment" falls down before the substan tial fact that no whiskey town lives to itself. Salisbury and Wilmington do not; neither would your town should you vote to gtvo it the privilege of sell ing liquor and it should decide to do it. Your town ought to have "local self government" in the matter of its tax rate, its school system, its municipal officers, its water supply, and all that, because these things do not iffect the lives, property and morals of the sur rounding country. This is not true of Whiskey selling. Here we must apply the principle that a man's liberty ends where it becomes a curse to his neigh bors. You do not say, "The rotten apple In the barrel must have liberty to rot," forgetting that the rottenness of one imperils the soundness of five hundred. You do not say, "The small|)ox victim has a right to personal liberty; I cannot restrain him," forgetting that the con tagion of one is a menace to every Other citizen. And if King Ceorge had held tracts of land in North Carolina counties and on North Carolina coasts in 17Vt>, :md had begun building forts thereon, would his cry for "personal liberty" and for "local self-govern merit" have availed aught?or would we have said that to allow the enemy to entrencli himself within the borders of any State would be monumental and suicidal folly of which not even the thick-headed savage would be guilty? And the moral of all this is plain. There is menace in nearby moral rot tenness no less than in nearby physical rottenness, there is contagion in moral disease no less than in physical disease. The inlluence of no whiskey towns ends with its corporate limits. It is not a local matter. No community has a right to prostitute Jthe plea of local self-government in order to make itself a center of moral contagion nullifying the effect of temperance legislation in all the surrounding country. The whiskey advocates appeal to us in the name of "liberty" and "local self-government." It is "liberty" for a mad dog, for a smallpox patient, for an outlaw and in such cases the theory of liberty does not apply. It Is "local self-government" for a pest-hole, for an enemy's fort, for a robber's strong hold and in such cases the theory of local self-government does not apply. IV. BUT WILL PROHIBITION PROHIBIT? "But will prohibition prohibit?" The beat answer to that, as some one has said, is that drunkards and whiskey manufacturers fight it so bitterly. If it did not prohibit they would not op pose it. Of course, it will not stop whiskey drinking uU"Hy. Our laws against murder do no* prevent all homicides; our laws against stealing do not pre vent all thefts. The question is not, "Will it utterly stop drinking? The question is, "Will it measurably de crease drinking?" And upon this point there can be no doubt. Only last week the editor of the leading paper in Knox ville, Tenn., spoke to me of the results of prohibition adopted by Knoxville a year ago. "Drinking," he said, "has been decreased 66 2-3 per cent, and the average number of arrests per week has gone down from 160 to 40." It is my belief that the abolition of the dis pensary in Raleigh in spite of the jug trade has decreased drinking among the dispensary's former patrons from 40 to 60 per cent. V. AND NOW A WORD ABOUT TUB TAX QUESTION. Of course, we are having to increase our taxes somewhat, hut wliO will weigh even the total amount of the in creased taxea in one balance add the weight of one human soul in the .other? When the great Horace Mann win; agi tating Massachusetts for the establish ment of a reformatory some one counted up the cost. "It would be wortli that if it saved one boy," many declared. "Would it?" hesitatingly replied a lis tener. "Yes," replied the great edu cator, "yes?if it were your boy!" Moreover, we cannot too strongly emphasize the fact that the temporary loss of a few dollars in whiskey taxes is as nothing compared to the enormous material gains through temperance in the way of increased earning power and property gains for the individual tax-payer. The folly of regarding whiskey selling as a source of wealth to the State should he apparent when we reflect that it of all things does most to impoverish the citizen from whom taxes come and most to in crease criminal expenses for which taxes are used. Barring war only, the greatest economic waste, the greatest poverty-breeder, North Carolina has known, is probably the drink habit, and a State might as well expect to enrich itself by licensing a Sherman's army to plunder its people for a certain small per cent, in lool tax as to expect to en rich itself through poverty-breeding whiskey taxes. Seen from any large viewpoint I make bold to claim that the increase in taxes resulting from increased property values will more than make good the temporary loss in whiskey taxes. In other words, the money you get from the drunkard in whiskey taxes as your Judas' price of his ruin is less than the money you would have had from him in property taxes if whiskey had been taken from him. And one tax is the life and health of 1 a people, the other is their shame and their undoing. VI savin0 ONE GENERATION OP boys. It should not be forgotten that the one great object, the goal, of temper ance agitation is to grow one genera tion of young men free from the drink curse. We cannot save the men al# ready addicted to drink, but we can, at least, generation after generation, save an increasingly large number of boys. And this is our hope. State prohibition in North Carolina will help mightily to this end. With the bar-room or the dispensary, the old, old question, "Is the young man safe?" must always be answered in the nega tive. Even with the jug trade, bad as it is, the danger is far, far leB<i. It. is chiefly the older men with appe tites al ready developed who will order from other Slates. It cannot he denied that v.'ith the manufacture and anle of liquor forbid-' den in every part of North Carolina it | will lie immeasurably easier to grow a 1 generation free from the blighting slavery to strong drink. And if we can get one generation free from the habit, what race of grown men will walk open-eyed again into the shame and pollution from: which we now vote to save them? VII. the jug trade is boomed ik TEMPER ance men stand kirm. And the jug trade?it will not always be with us. Let the present agitation continue live years more and as surely as the sun rises the inter-State jug trade will be stripped of its power for evil. Was it not Mr. Doolcy who said: "The constitushun may not follow the tlag, but the Supreme Court follows the diction ray turns?" At any rate, Su preme Court or no Supremo Court, even if we must have a Constitutional Amendment?the inter-State jug trade is doomed, if the prohibition Slates only stand firm and fight, letting no lust of golden taxes lure them into fatal compromise with their retreating and beaten enemy. It. is time for our leaders to cry out with Moses of old: "Fear ye not, stand still, and sot' the salvation of the Lord." VIII. the citizen's personal RESPONSIRII ity to <;od. Hut even if prohibition did not pro hibit- though it does what, mattery that to you? You pass the law; the ofiicers are charged with its enforce ment. The call Is to you to say whether ! the manufacture and sale of whiskey shall be forbidden in North Crrolina; the sheriffs, the nu.;. >rs, the police and the judges will then bo sworn to en force our mandate. Was it not Daniel Webster who said: "The most tremen dous thought I ever had is that of a man's personal responsibility to God?" And your personal responsibility, re member, is as to your vote on the law simply this and nothing more. If you vote against liquor you are free from the reproach of the drunkard's shame, free from the rebuke of the drunkard's mother, free from the shame of a whis key-sodden State. Your skills are clean. IX. the tremendous significance op the north carolina election. Prohibition will carry?there la no doubt about that. Hut, men and wo men of North Carolina, it must bo ear ried by no half-hearted, no Indecisive majority. The call of humanity, of patriotism, yea, of the God of Nation? Himself, is for each man and 0 very man to go out itito the highways and hedges j and convert tlii' erring and rouso the indi fcrent, and see Id it that tho ma jority on tho 20th of May is so over-j whelming thai '.his hydra-monster will nOl again llhd legal coVorl In mir Statt?; tili time shall he 110 more. If slavery was an annchroriisih In the glow of I nineteenth century civilization, no less is the drink evil in Iho fuller glow of twentieth century enlightenment. The time has COlno to bury it not merely for a few years or for one generation, but to trample it underfoot Overwhelmingly and for all time just as vvb have done with Monarchy anil slavery and witch craft. And not only is an overwhelming ma jority nice sary to secure this result in North Carolina, bui we are fighting a battle here on which the contending ar mies in all parts of America are look ing with keenest interest lor North Carolina, as I hnVti said, is the first State in the present temperance revival to decide tho prohibition question by popular vote. I.ei the majority May 20th he narrow and oVcry saloon and den of vice ill wide America will re joice and celebrate as they have been known to celebrate over elections in New York City and even the arch enemy of human souls himself may well take fresh courage. The call to North Carolina, therefore, is to do Well her part in the eyes of all the world. Napolooii with his legions encamped among the ruins of Egyptian glory, thrilled his men to new deeds of heroism by Iiis famous appeal, "My soldiers, from yonder pyramids forty Centuries look down upon you!" It may well bo that in the long years of Cod forty centuries of the future look tO the men of North Carolina to day and call thom tO do well their part even PS forty centuries of the past looked down on the imperial nrmh a of Franco. And then that other great battle watchword, this time of British his tory: "England ox peels every man to do hi.; duly!" Reverently may we no: paraphrase this cry and say now in con clusion that in the present moral war fare in North Carolina "The Cod of Battles expc. ts every man h> do his duty." Skirmish Practice. The Traynhnm Guards are holding weekly skirmish drills and lire Uno practices for the annual encampment which will lie held this year at Chick a- j manga. The next regular practice will lake place ton. now afternoon in <!ar llngton'a pasture. The public is in* lyitcd to witness these maneuvers a; they are of much interest. SAD WRfiK IN CLINTON Dcniti of Mr. Perry ni ? oi Two Children of IVoniincnl Ci:i\eii:\ : . : : has ? in Thurs y died and : ? ruing at U homo l'UVO in iic IVOIV order. Monroe, X. ? sya? vory a Mie nit?tlilS of phouhio* a general uyfl Iii wits *na iihprob ?r married, mie lo make Clinton, May ?:?>. Tho beeil a shd ono i'i Clint' day morning M r. .!. .1. i the funoral was held i i ? in o'clock. The Ri.'v. i >i ducted a funeral rci vi of the ?leer.', led and ducted the aevvieo ; :.! th cordahed with tin ri Mr. Perry ivna ;. n.'.< i\ ? C., and moved here \\ i' Ii successful for a hulnbi i" commission inter* lukni. ago he had ;> sevi re nia. Which was follow (I collap.se, c.iul for 01 i< J known that his r ci \e;_, ablo Mr. Perry' \v? i j The Misses Perry will c< , Clinton t'a ir home. ();i Thursday afternoon Iii tie Connie, ! the LWo-ycttr-old ' m chlor of Mr. and Mrs. c. M. It?ileyj died In the Columbia Hospital* where she had been carried for an operation. The little girl had an attack of in usloa followed by phtiu? inonia. An formed on the lung, from tho ClV < f which Sue died. Tho funeral wii ' \ M j ISl alter tho ar rival of the up i ain Friday, the Roy. hr. Jacobs eoiidu ling the service, l)r. T. I.. W. Bail* y nnd Mi is Lydia Blakoly accompanied Mr, l'.:il with tho child to Columbia. Whdri i: waa reported that sho was sinking Mrs. W, .1. Bai ley and Mrs. C. M. Bailey Wen I to Colum bia, carrying tho baby, Mloiso, who had not entirely roc ?Vei'cd from the after effects of mosaic ?. On Saturday Robert Burlelgh Vance, i.lr.. the two-'yoai'-oUl son of Mr. and Mrs. K. B, Vance, died of cholera in fantum, Up wa. o iii. . jn the Presby terian cemotcry Sunday aftornoori at 5 o'clock. Besides these three deaths, all at tended by peculiarly sad circuit lances, there havo \> 6i in m voral households eases of critical ilhv . Tho infant of the Uov, Mr. Ifod 1 has boon quito ill. Mrs. w. M. Sumorcl wan deiiporfttoly ill for several days and her caso is still considered critical, Mr. Wa Her Pitts has a severe en to of fever and has not yet passed the <>ri Miss Anhio Clraliairi Anderson lias gotten much hi lb r hul h< r father and mother, \>! > were ? miaoued to her from Alahaiun, have i"i ye( loft hor, Rxtrn Prall Jar I'dps, porcelain lined and heal quality of rubbers at s. M. & B. ll. Wilkoa & Co,