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< ' ^ : ? ? ? A FINE SERMON g|' * Walt Mtton Would Rather Be A t| Doorkeeper in Emporia than Dwell In The Tents of Gotham ??| Mtf I cam ho popular in Emporia, |1 I 4mA oaro three assorted hoots | ahead try standing in Vew York or | Beaton," says Walt Mason, probably 9 the morft-widely read newspaper poet ? and phik aopher in America. If a man g| an as cudnal the lead- S ing citizens of his town will Map |[ % , fife m ?? hank, posh his hat down gg - * : ewer his ears, aad call him by hie ? first name, it eonsoles him, Waits 0| tads, Ma the disappointment of life, j|a > ami ha may feel that he is not a gg soaspleti failure. "The folk at home ^ V?"" ? fmm >?* VfthhfeP httll to 55? his side-whiskers," he sasures as so The American Magazine, and if he ^ * gets in wrong with them, the stuff's N off. There's no happiness for him elsewhere. The one thing needful to g| ~ become popular, according to Mr. Mason, is, to have consideration for the other fellow. The first impulse with most of us, he asserts, are purely ||; selfish. This trait we inherited from our forefathers, who lived in trees and caves. In the course of tens of || thousands' of years mankind has de- s| veloped the ability to entertain se- || condary impulse, however, which in- as volve consideration for others. He ||f illustrates: jog When I want a ctorkv dinner, my first impulse fe to 00 owl after dark ^ ^ and steal a hen; my second impulse S is to go to Hm meat-market and buy 3 one. I have found that my first im- fft pulses yearly always are selfish and gl j' wrong, and I follow the second ones. SS The people who follow their 6elfish impulses are thoughtless of the ?3 feelings of others, and hence become S? unpopular maintain Mason. This gs thoughtlessness manifests itself in a Kg variety of ways, and he furnishes an |I & , example: jgg ># Some weeks ago we were short- |jg handed at our home. The butler had ? ??-- - j mkiln /?q vrrrit* cr bpiliUiCU Oil au&ic rr miv wk the winter's ashes out of the base- gj$ % ment, and the hired girl was at an ?? ' emergency hospital trying to take a ^ fail out of the influenza. The missis was doing the cooking and dish- :%| washing, and 7. was carrying coal and splitting kindling, and using language of various kinds. pig It was at this juncture that Cousin && Benjamin came down from Iowa to ||y pay us a surprise visit. He came n jg|; his auto, with his wife and several r d bushels of children, and they all thought they were doing something pi; ^ amusing, and took it for granted pp * that we'd be overjoyed to see them. S3 ? We greeted them as cordially as we pg could, and wore such smiles as peo- '-p pie wears at coroner's inquests, but our h'earts were full of bitterness. Had Cousin Benjamin notified us he was coming we could have wired pp him that the house was quarantined, pS or- taken other defensive measures. ||| But that isn't Cousin Benjamin's way. ?|| There never was a man witb bet- ix| ter intentions. He is generous and pg kind, and wants to be everyboiy's pg friend, and there is no meanness in | ^ him. But he has a diagonal sense of ?| humor, and when some <arauung scheme occurs to him he goes ahead ?S? to work it out, without sitting down gS for half an hour to figure how it's going to affect the other fellow. As ^5 a consequence, he is a lonesome man. ^ b People appreciate his sterling qualities, and have a long-distance affec- first< tion for him; but they hide undo thi barn when they see Lim cominv. my Of ttlrer things thai make people cour g?i 1*' w:ong, he mention.- t!;e reluct- WeIL a-'-? of some to i>ay their bills. He ioon sa\s they can't settle up "without weai their te?tn anu ; like chas King Charles on the way to the jn block." A specimen of this kind is bitte put on exhibition: imaj Some years ago I was editor and foun proprietor of a weekly paper which his was forever teetering along the edge their of bankruptcy. There was a small ten job-office in the backroom, and two diffi, or three discouraged pri"'^ers who or c were always down by a foreboding staii that the ghost wouldn't walk on pay- and day. I never could understand how I fath kept that concern going as long as I Qf e did, for the sheriff was lever more befo than a few rods behind, and the bus] superintendent of the oounty poor just f.-v-m reminding me that acco .tj wad a box-stall fitted up for me A whenever 1 was ready fcr A. ed I One day a prosperous business woct man sent for me and told me be had aliej been watching my heroic struggles cent against an advene fate aad was go- pera ing to help me. Ho bad a lot of cool printing done in tbe course at a pear, tmw and therefore Fd have my share at leetc it And he gave ' me a considerable for order, all the time overflowing with the benevolent smiles, the milk of human md kindness fairly dripping from them, hoax I went back to the shop triumphant setu and told the printers. The foremast et?d who was the champion middle-weight tp; pessimist of the town, was not at all that enthusiastic. oval "I know that old delegate," mid od < he; "he has nmety-flve easts at the got k""** - fi A i tmf RARr.AI w/m WHKJR through special ariaageenats urttfc At wmact en, aad daring this Bargain Week only, n keackfnl M and sohatantial act of Cooking Wan wfl be with erery Majestic Range sold. This ware ie gaad (not cheap ware)?it's worth a lot to yea. Oene a for yourself. AND RBMEMBGR? The price of a Majestic Range tine week wfll i increased, and there will hardly be a great redact* yean to come, if ever, but there may be aa increase TWO NEW AN] THE WONDERFUL UNSEEN RIV Yes, it's rivet-tight, just like the old Majestic, 1 side of nickel parts, leaving nickel smooth as glass, bulky bolt-heads on the inside. And, remember, rivet only one or two threads holding are bound to work of trouble. The Majestic is smooth inside and outside?more than skin deep. t If you haven't a MAJESTIC,a vail yourself of th i rviug a East .Main Street, dollar he ever earned still in his ! They voted against him in every ession. You have to use a jim- ward, and then put on false whiskers to pry a nickel from him. Of and repeated, and he was beaten so se he's good, and probably means bauiy that Aristides the Just looked , but he just hates to see adoub- luce a four-time winner by compariget away, and you'll have to son. * r holes through his stairway It broke his heart; he thought the ing up for your money." I town loved and admired him; and somuch as the foreman took a the town would have done so had it r view of all men and things, I not been for his habit of making fined he was romancing; but I people earn their money twice, id there was no exaggeration in It would seem as if a genial soul remarks. Tightwads always have like Walt Masoa never could become r offices at the end of eight or unpopular, but just that thing hapmiles of stairway, to make it pened to him once. He aays the cult for people who pass the hat neighbors quit dropping in to hear ollect bills. I toiled up the long his phonograph, and he was met rway to that man's office time with stony stares instead of glad again, and always received some smiles, and one evening when he erly smiles and uplifting words was sitting by the fireside reading a ocouragement; but he never paid report of the fourth assistant poetre the sixth visit He was too master-general, a brick Came through r, or he couldn't be interrupted the window and nearly hit his bald then, or be bad to check up the head. He couldn't understand it, for i tint, or something else. he knew of no harm he had done. On ad he was a fine man, who want- the contrary, he felt that he had o do good in the world, and who gone out of his way to win his Id rather he found dead in the neighbors' love and affection, among f than beat anybody out of a other things having that very even. He must have known how des- ing put his trick dog through a lot iteiy I needed the money, but he of stunts for tne entertainment ui dn't break away from his unfor- the children in his block, after havfte habit of staving off bill-col-' ing trained the animal for that exns. Later, be was a candidate' press purpose. Says he: mayor, and the town needed him; > I hunted up Bill Kershaw, a neighnewspapers foigot all party ties bor who makes George Washington boosted him as one who was! look like an amateur when it comes >ring the municipality by con-1 to telling the truth. Bill can't tell a ig to run. He should have been' lie without the use of anesthetics, ted by an overwhelming majori- It's good to have such a man in the bat tLe people who had climbed community when some ghastly deveary stairway to his office tails must be revealed, t ecz& over, and who had been put { I told him that I must know what ontfl tomorrow or the day after, I had done to get in wrong. I couldn't out and worked against him. stand it to have the neighbors treat^ . f ' r.roat M VP I VU1 ITI BARGi SHOAL D BAB ^ Ma jest AT OUR ST< Augi TO BE TRULY BE A MAJE Ipse-- Economy is not me Mice ?t too low A price C TWe tret cost it bo , cost of a Majestic is bo NfarabiUty and aatrefacto Nearly a mX&om II ftca&jr aad aataefastoc^y yliSBi sad soktters, is Si others. There h oady one I ' 0M~ is recognised as the sftai P^?* terisl, wofkaMaekip as wttm eqaaSsd, and R embodk bi3m ether m?i touk umwi umn ivotb? At oar sfeora duri on for Aauce to get acqoaintec soon. you it will b$ worth yoi D IMPORTANT ETING OH, JO rat the rivets clinch in- A smooth, and there are no big, . Uue> not only s hold tight; bolts with loose and cause no end absolutely elimi ? it's a striking beauty *? the ra coat of paraffin is opportunity to get acquainted with this wonde lardwarc ? j ing me as though I had broken out bought several with the itch. port the matte] "It's that blamed dog of yours," sociation, and said Bill. "Don't you know that the' y,e beast is a neighborhood pest? A | stand.off is no kwoman can't lay down a pie or a j^g tte triun piece of beefsteak or anything but'like c your dog swipes it Also, he kills bras3 ? p^her chickens, and he chewed the sawdust To be non ila out of Miss Whitesmith's Angora l *___ n . , ? be eternally vi cat, and he upset all the flower-pots thi If , . on Joe Hempstead's porch, and he * , crawled out of a mud-hole and shook .7 himself just when the Gault girls * adja"n* * ..... , cause a lot of 1 were going past m their white dress- , ,. , , l m bors won't be ee, and he? i., _ , I didn't wait for any more. I em av e thought I was doing a public service! Boar? Tl*d whea I educated a dog to perform j . a we like a genius, and merely managed '* ? to make myself a social outeast . c"e This leads Mr. Mason to the con- turnin8 from n elusion that after all it's the little u"*es ?* black, things that go to make a man popu- wben the wor lar or the reverse in his home town. wasbiQg a num Thev may put up a triumphal arch are 1 for him on Broadway when he visits w vlBlfc W1WTC New York; but he says, "If I owe with Pardonab 'the butcher for the soup-bones I fiye*cent cigar ? me, and that m ed in colors, is CONQUER WEAKNESS by keeping your powers of the biogra resistance at highest peak. It is to his home-to' as natural for ness men on t . ft | t outside world Scott s-Emulsion tss^ to strengthen as it is for your to nourish the body. The improve* if you SK ness-increase your resistance- t&6hment and . take Scoffs Emulsion often. your current. Scott *Bow?.Bk?mfield. N.J. KINGSTRE v .. .AL J. ... J*-.', lajestic Range ? UN WEEK I BMONSTRAHON AND 1 jGAIN SALE OF g ic Ranges I 3RE?ONE WEEK ONLY 1 ist 25-31 I ECONOMICAL THERE SHOULD W. STIC IN YOUR KITCHEN rely spending the least money?buying a ^ j&2 is indeed lake economy. urn t Mm only eost?the little additional first $1 thing eompared with its economy of fuel, 17 smiie. I|S ejeetk Manges, now economically, scieaoti' mwring millions ancf millions of people, 4$ 1 pneof positive of their superiority over g| Mt The public has judged. The Majestic adard of all ranges. The construction, ma- || d beauty of this wonderful range is un- ^ is important features possessed by no tag Ma jest* Bargain Week. Ifs your " |jg I with real facts about ranges. We assrue ir while to investigate. FEATURES : J Y! TOP NEEDS NO BLACKING highly polished cooking top, burnished a , adds to the beauty of the Majestic, but nates the work, dirt and worry of trying nge looking nice?just an occasional thin || ie retains its beautiful velvet blue color. irful range* know the inside of ranges ' Co., 1 tINGSTREE, S. C. J j 1? 1 in | wecu uc win icr to the Retailer's Asthe secretary will nomerchants that my m ^ v good, and that will * M next time iph in New York seem II ymbals and sounding yOU Dliy C&iOIllCl , ir in Emporia, I must! ck?k for j gilant about the little j - I ; the dandelions grow j /1 e seed will blow over' rl ns and take root, and' ^ I trouble; and my neigh- < B "| 1 I impressed?when I tell 9 i i I been invited by the *| I fl e of Akron, Ohio, to ' I OlX\J VCU3 5 9 there as the guest of fl V j 1 ap coal in my furnace,' f fl ly chimney great vol-. H greasy smoke, so that H nen hang out their The purified and refined 9 ber of beautiful gowua: eJooel tablet, that ? I rnn't Ho me anv good . 0 , . j H women and tell them nauseaJesa, sate ana sure. M ile pride that a new Medkuud virtues retain. has been named after, ^ and improved. Sold i I y portrait, lithograph- only in sealed packages. / on each box. Price 35c. . know the truth about H nous man, don't conphical works; drop in- " 1 1 1 HI nm, and ask the busihe main street The tl{|?g8 VjH knows of the big 2 little thing count. Zc2^\ ~t ~,o,~ ?ir(7s!!a fl "* " ! ?nsiifln enm. m Viy \ I pounded for the treatment of ? /?T MJ Itch, Icttma, Ring worm, ud , ? / J f r/ Tetter, end In sold by the dm? 1 Singer Sewing Ma- I ^ J A glet on the rtrtct guarantee thai MM improved at- H lding button hole at- MR Ufledoaetondr. TrrHont'efialra electric motor to suit ??ourri?k. Foraalelocalljby :e furniture co. JHV v* brockinton.