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m ANDERSON INTELLIGENCER
FOUNDED AUGUST 1, 18*9.
SM North Mala Street
ANDERSON, 8. C
W. W. 8MOAK, Editor and Bus. Mgr
L. M. GLENN.City Editor
PHELPS SABSKEN, Advertising Mgr
T. B. GODFREY.Circulation Mgr.
XL ADAMS, Telegraph Editor and
Foreman.
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No, Pauline, the franchise matter is
not dead yet, only sleeping.
Do Grain elevators elerste, and how?
Watch Anderson's grow and the ques
tion lp answered.
"What Is the editorial page of a
newspaper?" wss hesrd on the train.
Dont tell him. what's the use?
A little sunshine hss a soothing ef
fect, and even' helps to mske our
streets passable. Let us talk paring.
"Editors are human," says the Louis
ville Herald, which ought to be heart
ily ashamed ot Itself, letting out pro
fessional secreta that way.-The State.
It Ia .hard for The Intelligencer to
' get some questions answered, but the
people are answering them if those
asked do noL
CRIXE IN FLORENCE
In Florence county last week a
number of men, fifty or a hundred,
took a man out ot the hands of offi
cers of the law and killed him. The
man, a negro, ls said to have been
found under the house of a white man
who was absent from bis home at the
time. The negro said that be intenaea
to steel chickens and it is also said
that be bore a "bad reputation," al
though no crime had been laid at his
door, i
That the life of a man was taken
le bad enough. Probably nothing ta
to be gained by using hard words
about the matter though of course the
deed was ' shameful. Were every act
of no greater criminality than waa
this negro's punished with death,
probably elgbt or ten thousand men
would be killed each year in South
Carolina, aa all the petty thieves and
forgers would be Included In the an
nual massacre.
The most pitiful phase of the trag
edy la that from fifty to a hundred
men, many of them perhaps young,
will go through life with thb smell of
human blood on their hands, with
the hearts hardened and their con
sciences seared, persuading them
selves that the mere killing of a fel
low man ls a light offense-The State.
ABOUT THINKING
People who do not think are uncon
genial t? people who do think largely
because they do not think, and people
who do think are uncongenial to peo
ple who do not think because they
think, If.people who do not think
would learn to think then they would
become more tolerable to thinkers aa
woll aa to themselves; but if thinkers
should cease thinking, and put them
selves on a parity with those who do
not think, just think what an un
thinkable meas it would make ot us
au.-Yorkville Enquirer.
WE HOPE SO
The Andersen Intelligencer cried
Sagalast the blind tigers until
t city got rid af them. That
journal ls now crying out against
maddy streets. May she likewise have
a deliverance from them. The Newe
cried oat against muddy streets and
they are now passing. We expect to
keep np the- yell against the blind
tigers Until ?hey, too, pass hence
The Laacd seer Newe.
HAYE YOU?
"It may rain tomorrow, hat, say,
ain't lt fine today?"
Bava rou caught the spirit o? that
sentiment yet? If you have net you
are toting Half of your existence.
Wake np and get in tho running?
Newberry Herald and Newe.
WE THANK YOU
The Intelligencer desl?es to thank
the many kind '.rlrnds who have made
complimentary remarks about this
newspaper recently. It ls Indeed pleas
ant for the workers on thia newspaper
to know that their efforts to give the
people of this section of the Piedmont
a really good newspaper ls appreciat
ed. The little; things one says in a com
plimentary way go far towards making
the long hours of the night seem short
er to those who are engaged in getting
the news of the world in type Tor the
readers who await the paper before
breakfast each morning. On behalf of
the entire force we desire to thank
those who are kind enough to express
themselves as pleased with The Intel
ligencer.
It must he remembered that this
newspaper ls only In its Infancy yet,
and that it is more than a month till
it will be one year old. l?ut in this
short period of time, thanks to the
kind support of friends, it has grown
us large as many similar enterprises
of n uch greater age.
A letter from a subscriber In another
state says: "I will send in one year's
subscription and get someone else if
I can. I tako several different ones,
but think Thc Intelligencer the best
of all." Many such expressions are
heard on all sides, and we thank those
who are so kind and so generous in
their praise.
WORSE ANO WORSE
It ls becoming moro and more ap
parent that Pros lent Wilson knew
what he was talking about the other
lay when ho urged the newspaper mern
in one of his semi-weekly conferences
with them, not to be too ready to be
lieve dispatches coming to this country
from Mexico. He stated, In effect, that
there were a number of interested
parties In Mexico who were having
sent to this-country false and mislead
ing messages descriptive of conditions
and tendencies In the Southern Repub
lic. That there has been a consider
able amount of this sort of fake news
(rom Mexico all along ls known by all
close observers of newspaper dis
patches, but tho revival of the "stuff"
In a more violent form than ever lends
color to the Idea that the President
'knew it was coming." It must be ad
mitted that he knows and has
known more about Mexico ail along
than the professional politicians who
?rltlclse and attempt to ridicule his
policies.
Two most absurd stories have come
From Mexico during, the present week
-Among the most preposterons* of all
he daily "rot" from that country. One
a to the effect that Gen. Carranza p&ld
rifi.OOO to two United States senators
'or their Influence in having the
United States troops withdrawn from
Mexico- aa if the President of the
Jnltcd States could be influenced by
Jenatora who ha^|hch^^rtO)e. The
)ther is that the troops"r/Ht'e with
lrawn from Yera Crus by President
iVilson upon the peremptory orders of
3eneral Carran sa.
Of courae stories ot thia sort aro
lot carried by the Associated Press, or
f they aro, their character as mere
?umors ls presented with them. Chief
ly they are "special artllces," and a
arge proportion of them come from Bl
Paso, where there are a number of
'waiting statesmen" from Mexico,
.cady to join any faction that can
nost thoroughly, and completely loot
he country. Specifically, the Hearst
iowa service has been more than once
:harged with presenting Interested
'news" from Mexico.
Mr. Wilson's statement haa no doubt
ie rv ed to call the attention of casual
.eudora to the absurdities of some of
ho Mexican dispatches, but the thing
las got to be so notoriously flagrant
hat nobody of any ordinary degree of
ntelllgence needs to be told that the
Mexican news \ not news, but stuff
ICHlgned to mislead and distort the
Vmerican public opinion.
SELF-DENIAL DAY
In Oils Issue of The Intelligencer ls
m appeal for a Self-Dental Day in An
Ierson. One of Anderson's public spir
ted and generous cltisena suggested
to The IntellL ncer that the good
>eople of Anderson be called upon
o aet aside one day between thia and
Christmas for the purpose ot donni
ng something to those among us
shorn the Salvation* Army feels are
worthy. The Idea ls to give to the Sal
ration Army aere all that one would
?pend on the 16th of December for
uxuries In the ordinary course of a
lay. This is asking very little of the
rood people of Anderson, and we are
mm thia appeal will meet . with a
lear ty and ready response. Wi ere
tnxtous to send money across the we
er to our cousins who need if very
nuch, and we should be equally as
inxlous to give something to our needy
irothsr at borne.
Baltimore haa set aside next Tues,
lay as Self-Dental Day. abd lt le meet
ng with mach favor. Thousands of
lollars will be realised aa a result of
he interest taken tn thia worthy ef
fort.'Can Anderson afford to do lesa
proportionately for the unfortunate in.
rar city, and they are here, na they
are everywhere. One haa but to go
down the street and watch the eager
and hungry little faces that are press
ed against the show windows where
the Santa Claus has his toys on dis
play, to be convinced that to give only
the price of one's luxuries tor one day
will bring more Joy than if the amount
were spent in self indulgence.
The Intelligencer will be pleased
to receive any funds that may be left
with us, and wo are sure that the mer
chants and thc hanks will provide
boxes for the deposit of the funds, and
c?U attention to them as their cus
tomers come and go. Let us make this
a red letter day in Andesron and one
which our unfortunate brother at
home will have cause to remember.
Tho Baltimore Sun IIBB the follow
ing editorial, which we ask that you
take timo to read:
The problem which we afc facing
In Saltimoro and which the people of
all other great cities In this country
aro facing, to a greater or less degree,
ls, in the main, the problem of unem
ployment. It has become much more
severe, much more pressing than usual
this winter owing to the business con
ditions produced by the war. But lt ls
not a new social phenomena, and will
remain with us until we have remov
ed tho causes from which it springs.
In its final analysis and solution it is
becoming evident to nearly everybody
we shall have to deal with it on deep
er and broader lines of social phil
osophy than we have hitherto employ
ed. But for the moment the question
ts one of immediate rescue, ot com
munity Red Cross work, so to speak.
Those who hare been wounded or
rendered helpless in the struggle for
existence are lying all around us on
tbe tho battle fields of peace, and our
first duty is to ?ave them from suffer
ing and to set them on their feet again.
We shall not be allowed to forget that
this is not a final cure for Buch con
ditions. There are too many mission
aries of reform abroad in the land to
permit us to shelve these questions by
first aid to the injured. Whatever our
views may be as to the future and per
manent remedy, therefore, we can ail
unite in tho task of rendering the im
mediate aid that is so sorely needed.
One thought which should be kept
In mind is that the extension \>f this
aid is not an act of generosity, but an
act of individual and community duty.
We. owe this to the people who are
suffering among us for the ordinary
necessities of life. We owe it to them
because, in one way or another, they
are generally the victims of our social
order- some weakness or viciousness
in our system, of some lack of wis
dom or lack of heart in Its construc
tion or operation. Consciously or un
consciously, all of uu have contributed
to these results, and it is only rair mat
we should assist in atonement for. our
own wrong.. Our help is predicted on
the ?.vinciple of the compensation act,
which provides a certain recompense
fer workmen injured by dangerous ma
chinery. The machinery ot our civili
sation grinds out many maimed bodies
and lives ; in-time ' wo may learn bow:
to make lt less basardous to be born
into this complicated factory of -sod
ern Ure; but now tue first thing In
do, the duty of the hour, ls to bind
up the wounds of the injured.
Viewed from'this standpoint, Solf
Denial Day loses none of its inspira
tion and is strengthened in its appeal
to cur reason and our self-interest,
december 15 will bring home to us, if
we use it aright, a slight comprehen
sion of the meaning of poverty and dis
tress. It may tax the resolution of
some of un to forgoe on that day our
accustomed luxuries and indulgence,
but If we give them up we ?hall hare
a faint idea of the self-denial which
the poor are forced to practice every
day in the year. It will tend to bronc* -
en our human sympathies and to give
us an insight into tho other fellow a
life-the other fellow who is not mere
ly going without elga rn and soda water
and theatre tickets all the time, but
to whom the whole of existence ls ouu
long act of deprivation.
How many of us make any real sac
rifice for anybody, outside of our own
families, tn the course of the year?
And lt wo db, by chance, how particu
larly virtuous we feel! This Self-De
nial Day that we are all talking about
will give most of us a chance for-a
new experience, and we believe it will
BOW the seed ot Isstlsg thought.
VERT RARE OCCURRENCE
The Anderson Intelligencer lukes
The York News to task for reflecting
on the manner in which convictions
were secured against blind tigers in
the city of Anderson. The York News
thinks public opinion was stirred up
to too high a pitch. We differ from our
York contemporary. Wo believe that
lt Is a very rare thing that a blind
tiger is unjustly convicted. They ar?
a menace to any community and all
forces for good should unite In getting
public sentiment thoroughly crystal
ised against them. Just as has been
done in Anderson.-Tho Lancaster
News.
The Day Ie Congress
WASHINGTON, Dec, 9.-SENATE:
Hearing begun on land leasing bill.
Debate begun on the immigration
MU.
Senator Kenyon Introduced a bill
to reduce the number of men requir
ed for a federal grand jury.
: the London safoty-at-sea conven
tion waa favorably reported for con
firmation.
Senator Stone Introduced the ad
ministration shipping bill.
Adjourned at 3:37 p. m. to noon
Thursday.
HOU8K: Secretary McAdoo submit
ted bia annual report.
Rear Admiral Fletcher and Briga
dier General Scott testified before
military and naval commit tees on
the preparedness Of the national de
fenses.
Representative McDonald introduc
ed a plan to put the question ot na
tional deren?* to a referendum.
? Adjourned nt 5:1? p. m. to noon
^Thursday.
"A Beggar Ra
Never Be?
Columbia. S. C., Nov*. 20.
Thc moat hopeful und helpful sign
of the t?nica throughout the South la
the rapidly swelling protest against
the apirlt which has mude the South
appear as a beggar Hitting at the gate
of the rich man, Lazarus-tike, expos
ing Ita sores to public gaze, ?nd ask
ing alms. Everywhere there Is heard
a ringing protest against the men and
the movements which have resulted in
placarding tho North with begging
signs, "Please help thc South," and
even in originating "charity balla"
and selling tickets on thc plea that
something must be done to help tho
South.
This section did not at first quite
realize what would he the effect of
the many begging plans in congress
and elsewhere to give to cotton-grow
ers a "protectlonf never granted to
any other industry, and to teach the,
improvident ones that they must be
"coddled" and. saved from their own
fatal mistake of raising too much cot
ton, and the people responsible fot
this overproduction of cotton arc the
one million or more tenant farmers
who raise three to four bales each, in
season and out of season. It must bc
rememberd that I am referring not to
tho intelligent, thrifty, hardworking
growers, who make un a largo part of
the farming elament of tho cotton
States, and who raise their own food*
stuffs, but to tens of thousands of in
efficient, lazy and "ne'er do well**
small farmers, mostly teneuts, white
and black, who are a curso to the
South-a burden on Jt which constant
ly holds it bach. Tou can aee their
homes wherever you travel, many of
them without a sign of a garden, a
pig or even a chicken. What to do
to lift this burden by lifting these peo
ple, is a great problem, but it must be
.solved. . The sooner they dre forced
by the refusal of landowners and
country atores to advance one dollar
of credit on cotton-and many of these
classes of local financiers must be
taught to quit their habit of which is
directly responsible for existing deg
radation of tenant:; and for their fail
ure to raino foodstuffs-thc sooner
they will be forced to earn a better
living by regular work. There are,
of course, tome good tenant fermera;
many. Indeed; but aa a class these
small tenants are slovenly In their
work and a hundred years behind In
their methods of cultivating their
crops. They 'destroy the fertility o?
the soil, they7 are ever moving - from
place to place/ and rarely eyer bene
fit any place. These aro the people
who. like a load, aro hung around the
noel's of the thrifty, prosperous far
mers whe by their own work or that
of the more Intelligent tenant farm
era have to carty this burden, and yet
have wrought; t^oll In. developing the
South. They %rc Uk? a : dead body
chained to a live man. who can only
-advance-as lmttrfe(ga-tb? load to which
fate has tied hito: i \
For the votes ;af these people, that
la to say, the votes of the whites
among them, politicians of high and
low degree, politicians who run the
county machin?, the town machino
and the State machine, propose every
visionary and uneconomic scheute that
the brain can devise, merely to keep
the spirit of unrest alive, for upon
unrest they fatten.
Th'so politicians are, developing
among many of'these lower classea ot
Ignorant, lazy farmers a spirit of an
archy, which hatea auccess, despises
honor and condemn:* honesty. Out of
this condition, lamentable as it ' is,
grew the agitation'which has placard
ed the country with Lazarus-like
pleas, and which held up for national
pity every evidence of weakneas.
The late D. A. Tompkins of Char
lotto who was once rightly nominated
in a public meeting, not aa of Char
lotte nor of North Carolina, nor even
of tho South, but as "D. A. Tompkins
of the United States," had a favorite
expression when talking to cotton mill
operatives and others, to the effect
that "if you have a sore, toe. don't be
always sticking it out and calling at
tention to it." . The South, or at least
a part of lt, stuck out Ita "sore toe"
and begged the passerby to note ita
soreness and tn five charity when
nono was needed. ',
"A beggar race can never be a
great race," said. Tompkins once in a
Ponton club, when he- had been im
portuned to give his Views about the
negro. Ile had refused to discuss the
subject until after much persuasion he
consented upon the promise that be
should have the right to express hts
views with absolute candor without
offense. Then when hq pointed out
how the philanthropists ot New Eng
land were ruining the negro race by
encouraging Its begging proclivities
Inatesd of letting it fight out its battlo
pf Independent development, he added
that so long aa the race waa a beg
gar race it could never be a great
race.' "How about Dr. Blank." one of
audience asked; "surely you do not
count hbo as a beggar?" "He," said
Tompkins, "ls the greatest beggar ot
them all, for h? has for yearn made
a business of begging from yen and
other Northern people, and I repeat,
*no race that ItVes by begging can ever
become groat, any more than an In-*
dividual beggar c^n ever become -v
true, self-reliant vnan. so long as he
clings to his hising for a living."
There is ? laWiV'?rtmeu Vio? im
portance to tire South in tUese state
ments of Tow Ohm*/ one of the wisest
men tho South hss known in a quar
ter ot a cent try. Tompkins was re
ferring specif! sally to the negro. But
for more than ? generation, and es
pecially In the past 12 or li years,
there has been systematically culti
vated, under the guise of "educational
statesmanship" abd "phl"?*r?hropy la
education," an appalling spirit of beg
gary tn the South, not among the ten
ant taratap etea, but among he
clara that ta supposed co be io train
ing ot and for future leadership ia
the South on ali linos.
- Hot only must the self-reliant, vir
ile South-the. South that Stands for
ce Can
a Great Race '
honor and. integrity-determine to
suppress the politician whoso work
encourages a spirit of beggary, hut it
must make certain that tho weak
kneed begging element in its popula
tion shall not be posed before the
world as in the slightest degree rep
resentative of the real manhood ot the
South. An old cotton grower, a man
of the old but ever'living school of
honor and honesty, in berating the
tendency of Borne farmers to refuse
to sell cotton and pay their debts,
said to the writer: "Why, I have sold
cotton at 3 cents a pound, and would
do it again, or even sell my land or
anything else, if necessary, to pay the
man who had trusted me and whose
goods I had used." Ho ls a type of
the man who resents with bitten, ?BS
the beggar plea, "help the South." He
is of that great body which holds
honor and honesty above price, whose
soul is made somewhat bitter and re
sentful by having his section and him
self misjudged hy the "charity balls"
and begging please toiwy cotton of 150
a bale when it was selling at $15 less
-every bale thus sold being an en
forced contribution to charity. Any
man might properly be urged to buy a
"bale of cotton" at the market price,
but the moment the movement under
took to name 10 cent?, while the mar
ket price was less, it was**? doomed to
i failure-, because it became a charity
proposition.
The foremost newspapers of the
South are vigorously righting the
mendicant spirit muong .the farming
. element. While they are about lt they
will do well to widen their campaign
so as to include the element, far
greater in influence, represented
among State and local school authori
ties and faculties and officials of uni
versities and colleges who stand, hat
In hand before the coffers of "philan
thropic educational" endowments.
The newspapers are demanding that
the South shall fairly and squarely
and honestly meet tho situation; that
farmers- shall sell enough of their cot
ton to pay their debts and that those
who hare been responsible for tho
"Help the South" placards shall fully
understand that thoy do not represent
the South, but that they do seriously
misrepresent it Surely -it would be
a bitter arraignment of* our bf si ness
sense If. after five big cotton crops
sold at very high prices, the whole
South, could be long stampeded and
made panicky by one year of "uncer
tainty as to tho sale of its cotton.
Thousands and tens of thousands of
cotton growers, men who measure up
to the highest standard of business
ability, men whose Integrity ls as
high a? that of the justly famed men
of the Old South, are abundantly able
to hold their cotton, for they are fi
nancially Btrong and have abundant
credit. Tho Southern cotton growing
Industry should be. judged by them.
We would be as unwise In our-judg
ment If WP regarded the inefficient
?lass as typical of this industry and '
of Southern farming as we would be
if we estimated all China by the cool
ies whom we occasionally see. And
yet many people who do not know the
South make Ulis mistake just as mam?
do in their thoughts of China. Unless
begging of outsiders for education
shall end, the Impression will no long
er be a mistaken one.
The whole ?situation simply showed
how easily the mob mind or the mob
spirit can be turned cse way or an
other in theso days. Many of the peo
ple have been led to believe that
everything is rotten; that all success
is based on fraud; that all corpora
tions are controlled by robbers. And
for this regrettable condition ot mind
In a large part of the public'many of
tho men who stand high in politics,
some in one party?, some in another,
are responsible. While they have de
nounced men of great fortunes, and,
with the aid of a species ot Journal
ism, have excoriated wealth as scoun
drellsm and thlvery, thoy have es
teemed lt an 'honor to know the men
they have called robbers; The same
class has been-lound at the. front 4n.
advocacy of begging ot these very mon
of wealth- for school fur.de, for libra
ries and for church organs and for
eign missions. Consequently, Utero
has been created an atmosphere of
hyprocrisy and mendicancy.. Consid
ering all- the circumstances of the re
cent . cotton stampede, how could we,
threfore, expect that the poor grower
ot throe or four bales of cotton who
could not clearly differentiate, should
not be "ilUng to join in a schema to
have charitably disposed people buy
bis cotton at $50 a bale when the mar
ket price wa* $10 or $15 less?
Perchance the South is already
learning ita tesson. It baa certainly
found that the men most denounced by
the politicians in public are the most
toadied to when the chance comes. to
seek a favor. It has certainly learn
ed that the fight against railroads haa
cost this section billions more than
any saving made in freight rates; it
has certainly learned that In the hour
ot financial need the people and the
government have had <o ask the help
of the vjnry Wall street powers which
both have been denouncing.
The South is justly fighting the beg
gar spirit which placards tho stores
and the hotels of the East with ap
peals to help the "poor South." Lot
it now take from every store and every
show window in the Sooth tho charltj
cotton marked "I have bought a bale
at 10 cents a pound. Ha?e you?" So
long as that sign appears < tn every
town and city atore in the South, let
us remember that we are holding out
our "sore toe" and asking people to
look at it, and wa ?nat not therefore
blame the North for taking us at our
word. Let us atop whining, stop de
nouncing success merely because lt la
success, stop developing the anarch
istic spirit or tho day and start afresh
to lay a solid foundation on which to
build a higher and cleaner lire, with
independence. backbone, common
nenne, honor, honesty and Integrity tn
our thinking and In our acting.-R.
H. E. in The Manufacturera Record.
Business
.Ti, ?ta? aft* ? Orneme*
Bulletin
AUTUMN THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10 1914
"True salesmanship
consists in selling
goods Jthat don't
corn? back-to peo
ple who db come
back.'7
I saw that-or some
thing like it-the oth
er day and repeat it
here because it says
more about good
business than any
other short sentence
I've ever seen.
The "people who do
come back" are
Many men who buy clothes
here ask us to do their choos
ing for them. We are very
glad of this, for it gives us
the opportunity to utilize the
lessons of our long exper
ience in fitting the right
clothes to' the right man.
The result is a thorough ap
preciation of our thoughtful
selling service-a service
and always have
been-the main stays
of B. O. Evans &
Co.'s store. It is easy
to get a man to buy
once-but to sell a
man the kind of
goods that will bring
him back again-that
is the modern busi
ness idea and it is
part of the "Evans
idea"-though we
have no monopoly of
it.
which we believe is the best
in Anderson.
And the merchandise
matches the service-a com
bination that makes perman
ent patrons out of chance
customers.
Suits $10 to $25.
Overcoats $10 to $25.
The Christmas store for
Men's and Boy's Gifts.
Order by parcel post
Wo prepay all chargea.
Respectfully Referred to
He of the Fox-skin
Overcoat
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The Intelligencer haa been handed
a communication which will be of
peculiar intereat just at this time in
view of the etory appearing recently
in an Atlanta paper that Col. James
T. Robert of Anderson had offered a
reward of $2.000 to any one who
would find for him a suitable com
panion to ond bia bachelorhood. The
communication followa:
Are those days of chivalry ovo',
when knighthood waa In flower,
whoo knights of old and .warriora
bold did most valiant deeds to gain
ray lady's favor?
Now there dwells a man io North
Anderson town of a Norseman-like
statue, a princely man of large es
tate as well as great fox-chasing
tame. He baa dared to iaaue a most
startling proclamation, which repre
sents in dollars and cents a sufficient
amount) it seems to beguile or entrap
a "malden shy." for a helpmate or a
better halt News travels easily lt
seems from both far and wide and
great showers ot letters, are daily re
received. He must be by .this time
really deluged, though not to be pit
ied In being so dreadfully beset, by
there poor i foolish maidens, who
seem to forget. instead of besetting
bim they should bo sought.
These samo showers of letters will
at least give him some food for
thought and take heed, 'you ?nan of
foxy fam? that oar good wemen cf
today are just the same; as of yore
and the maid worth having, however
large the sum, can not ho bought for
a price, though a king's ransom were
laid at her feet. Her price Ia far
above the rubles of Biblical lore,
therefore a most priceless gem. Now
this foxy Norseman should also know
he Is missing the chance of hie life,
of getting onto tho chase and of win
ning tho race of the biggest game
that waa ever played on the highroad
of life and given to mere man.
So come down from thoae stilts my
worthy Sir Poxy and do tho right
stunt and'tell the same old story in
the same good way, even on thy
bended knee, as "I pray thee, my fair
maid" which If persistently and per
severingly told, kind fortune may re
ward you and gain for you in the
end a beautiful lady of golden locks
prefered to help you and keep you,
my dear air, from going fox-chasing
and to grace those ancestral halla
and. try. to'help rufe those vast fair,
lands and won't evett sobra to sew on
buttons of this great "big man and
"My lord" of, Koxyquiller
A BLOND.
RIFLES
' The .imple, strong, hard-hitting; accurate
shooting kind. Such Rifles make happy boys.
Bows and Arrows
Just what every boy wants. Get one for your
boy. <, \
SULLIVAN HARDWARE GQ.
Anderson, S. C., Greenville, S. C., Belton, S. C.
