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* ? ? THE RELIABLE MAN. ? *************** Editor The Advortlsor: A few weeks ago I sent you some verses on the "Reliable Man." Since then I have been thinking of bis an tipodes hi charactor. I suppose you -will find him where ever you may go if you have much business deullngs ?with other people. I saw once a pic ture representing the church as a bus. The poor old pastor was pulling In ttao shafts With all his might. The load became too heavy and he looked around and all his members had climbed In and were riding. The character I am thinking of is always in the bus instead or nt the wheel, and very often he will reach out and put on the brakes, and if he is per suaded to help push a little someone Will have to beg him into It andjmll him up to it and watch him to keep him there or he will be brakeman again. Nothing hut the sentinel, Public Opinion, will keep him in line. When such characters prevail in church work, people worship in the same little old wooden building their grandfath ers used, with not a modern conve nience to indicate a public spirited congregation. And were they to pre vail in town or city, there would be no paved streets, electric lights or street cars of any kind. People would go about in darkness or wall tor the moon, and wear boot . to wade in the mud. The character I am describing was never known to offer a suggestion in church, town, or city, 10 improve pres ent conditions it" there is any possi bility of it costing them anything. Lei me paraphrase one of the verses on the "Reliable Man" and It tits the Character I am trying to describe. '"Me may be clever and often quite blunt lie may have money like air. Hut though it is not in him t'o 'put up a front' When you need him you must get him there." (If you can) I am glad to know that this char acter, thou ill often present, does not prevail in our churches, towns or ci ties. The two classes have been call ed the workers and the shirkers. Let every one decide for themselves to which class they belong. W. T. A. rror.s Hill. Nov. 28th. * **** ********* * nil. COTTON QUESTION. * ? *************,* The Edltorof The Advertiser: ? The writer was actively engaged in the cotton business for twenty years in North and South Carolina, Georgin, Mississippi Olid Arkansas. 1 haVO seen roftoa at high as fifty ceu'd a pound that wi'iS hold by the ownar nnd lln rtljy sohl for 18 cents a pound. 1 was buying in Mississippi when the price was bringing four and ono-hnlf down to one and a qua (? owing to grade. 1 knew one man to hold i'7 bales that he was offered 0 'i-i for until storage, interest etc , broke and r?hfd him. I know eiuugl it'-ottt e-otton to know that no living man knows anything about Its future. .Men form opinions and yet go broke: and so docs the cotton buyer who holds for a price. I remember tulkiug with Aoine o?i.<,., nirn or i?m w< Ks auo and stateil that it would not surprise mc if cotton went to eight and a half cents. A local buyer who was pres ent said that if it did he would take on wflO bales. It is almost there and I have no doubt but what that man is Wondering that he hadn't better wait and see if it is not going lower. Now as to tha futltl'i of cotton. I learned long ago not to tell a man to sell or hold cotton and yon can understand froth this whal I think uboul doing so. Nine cents is not such a bad price, if it should go to ten oi ten and a half next summer, figure and see what you have made. The manufacturer would he perfectlly wil ling, yes delighted, to pay the differ ence to have you hold the cotton and earr.v it tor them. Few things heat a clenn sheet. With the cotton sold, the farmer would know where he stand?, the merchant, would be re lieved, the bank would be in a posi tion to extend the usual accommoda tions and my candid opinion is that it would be for the best interest of all parties concerned. No doubt about there being the biggest crop on rec ord. {?m. . ~r "Observer." '' ' ________ Lb Voting Kills Few. In 1906 .ightnlng killed only 169 people In this whole country. One's ?bances of death by lightning are less than two In a million. The chance ef death from liver, kidney or stomach trouble is vastly greater, hu?, not if JC!ectrlc Hitters be used, as Robert Jfadson, of West Burlington, la., prov Four doitors gave him up after eigbt months of suffering from viru lent liver trouble and yellow Jaun fllne. He was then completely cured hy Wlectrlc Ritters. They're the best Htomnch, liver, nerve and kidney rom ?Hly and blood purlfler on earth. Only lUQc st Laurena Drug Co. and Palmet to Drug Co. Promoted Another Notch. Mr. L. C. 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