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I his stoic is filled to overflowing' with the newest styles and best values in good seasonable merchan dise ol all kinds, for your Fall and Winter needs. is, w c sell everything to wear, for men, women, boys and girls, both in Ready-made garments and the goods in the piece. Whether you prefer the garment ready to put on, or prefer to make it to your own style and taste, we are ready to serve and please you. Notwithstanding the iact that we have sold a great many ladies Suits, Coats, Dresses and Sweaters in the last lew weeks, oui assortment is still ample for you to select from, for w r e are getting in new num bers every week by express and parcel post. Have you seen these pretty Serge Middy Suits that we are selling at SI 1 . 1 and S 1 2. 15? If you hav'nt got one you had better come rfow, for they are going mighty fast. This mornings express brought us another bunch of these pretty all-wool Sweaters; then we have them in Silk and in Cotton and wool mixed too. UNDERWEAR Our line of Winter Underwear is complete from every stand point. We have Union Suits and two-piece suits for men, women and children; just the kind you want, and the prices are right. '-•$ Y“' JtF , .>’■* ■i V | f/' £ vi Jr j|Jj vL' jjtf' Wi >' imanrr jjy Jgy •frK, V J 5 ?"J r :_s 1 ”' IS THE WEARING OF MOURN ING FOR THE DEAD A WISE CUSTOM? Is the custom of wearing mtouriimg for t lie dead a wise aiul desirable fashion Should wo feel it uecessan to publish our grief for someone whose fortune it lias to precede us on the journey we shall take sooner or later? Ibtiiug the war there was in countries a general Biovernent to dispense with mourn ing rlothes heeause of the depress ing effect it was thought to have an those wh_i> might later lie called nfton to serve in arms. A discussion of this question—a curious one for fiction—is made enc of the incidents of a striking lory by Dana Burnett in the Oc ular number of Bond Housekeep ing The heroine absolutely refuses to put on the conventional garb of mourning after the death of her father. What happened as a result of her determination is very inter esting. Originally the wearing of a mourning costume was not for the purpose of expressing grief, but to give notice that the person so dressed had been defiled by con tact \\ it It the dead. Nor is black tho universal color for mounting garb. In China the relatives wear clothes entirely of white. On the Cold Coast of Af rica the mourning color is brilli ant red. Among the Aruntas of i Australia the mourners smear BUSINESS IS GOOD AT THE WINDER DRY GOODS STORE Staple Piece Goods and Domestics WHY PAY MORE? Our line of Dry Goods is always right up to the minute. Silks, Satins, French and Storm Serges, Broad-Cloths, Poplins and all kind of cloths down to Gingham, Percale, Sheeting, Outing and Cotton Checks. All kinds of Outing, light colors, dark colors, solids, stripes and checks, and the price the yd. AAA Sheeting, Sea Island finish, £ the yard uDC 40-inch Sea Island Sheeting; smooth and good, 23C Heavy, 3-yard Sheeting, three yards weighs a T £V. pound; the yard Good heavy Drilling for Underwear IT ;lie yard * Riverside Cotton C! *) F yet Danville C i know TT 1 9 Unbleached Outing for Quilt Linings, the 1 7 IT yard " A good lot of Bed Blankets at last years prices. themselves with white clay during the ceremonial period. The history of death and the ceremonies accompanying it forms almost a literature by itself in cluding strange and fantastic cus toms. some beautiful and some V not so pleasant, like the “towers of silence.” where the bodies are left to the vultures; or the Hindu practice which, before its abolition under English rule, required the widow of the dead husband to herself submit to death by burn ing on bis pyre. "Whe and why a particular garb was chosen to indicate grief lias never been determined. Why should it he necessary for a person to announce sorrow by a visible badge? Is it not really a THE BARROW TIMES, WINDER, GEORGIA. desecration of sentiment to make of it a public proclamation? For the poor it is not infre quently a real hardship to lie obliged to buy the clothing that indicates their sorrow. Would it not lie wiser and 1 let ter that the fashion of wearing mourning clothes he entirely done away with? The world is coming to look up on death from anew viewpoint. Scores of books are being printed and hundreds of articles are being written by men and women of standing and sense that indicate a cliainging idea of the hereafter and the door through which we enter it. A century from now we may en vy rather than mourn the one who SHOES and HOSE As usual, we are ready to supply your wants in Shoes and Hose. We shoe the men, the women, the boys, the girls and the little folks. While the present market prices on shoes are very high, we have a great many shoes at prices as low as they w ere a year ago. A shoe for every foot, and hose for every shoe. Join your friends and come to the store that is always ready to serve you with the best. goes in our advance into the great beyond. It is almost certain that before that time we shall have ceased to make a public display of sorrow by an especial sort of dress.—At lanta Georgian. ODD FELLOWS MEETING All the members of Carter Hill Lodge T. O. (>. F. are requested to lie present on Saturday night Oct. 25th. This is a very important meet ing and all members should be there. There will be some good speakers on this occasion. J. C. Ilarhin, N. G. A. 11. Starms, Seetv. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23 The Real Test. I ,( 111 conclude that a man Is a pa* lent mortal heeause you’ve watched 1,111 sitting on a log fishing,” said the nilk toast philosopher. “Watch him rhile he s waiting for his supper.” Go *nd Do It. A man was asked how he accom plished so much in life. “My father taught me.” was the reply, “when I had anything to do to go and do It.”— Exchange. U*9 of Surnames. ( custoiu of using surnames for Christian names, as exemplified in the cases of Harrison and Mr. Holden, goes hack at least three centuries, but the people stuck pretty close to Johns, Edwards and Thomases. In this coun try we have seen a tendency to use, at baptism, the mother’s family name as a middle name f or the child. This, doubt, is leading to hiore free use ol family names as given names. For thTI most part, however, we are John Hem. ry Smiths.