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1,000 yds, white and colored Lawns, all good, stylish patterns, going at a reduced price. Ladies
children’s and Men’s slippers going at alhround cost prices. 1,5/9 pairs of Men’s and
Boy’s pants that will have to be sold at sacrificing prices. Men’s and Boy’s
........Suits to go at cost.........
Come See! and
Our up-to-date Line of Gent’s Furnishings will also go in this cut price sale for we will have to make room for a large stock that will arrive in a few
days. For your summer trip, get or.e cf BaggF& Perry’s suit cases, hand satchels or trunks for the occasion. They can suit you. We are closing out
millinery and ribbons at your price. Get the “habit.” Embroidery sold at the same cut price. We have everything you want in furniture at factory
prices. We have the best carload of stoves in the world. You know you need one.
We expect to reduce our stock within the next few days even if
lose. Our loss will be your gain if you will grasp the opportunity
Come to see us prepared to take away some of the best bargains.
lfours for Business
Gems of Thought.
From the Home Circle Column of the
B|Nu-ta Islunaelite.
A merry heart brings sunshine,
disperses gloom, lightens labor,
cheers the weary, lessens bur¬
dens, brightens life, inspires hope,
increases faith, encourages, lifts
up. buoys the spirits and so hap
pifies life there is continual praise
and thanksgiving in living it.
You can make the clock strike
befoie the honr by putting your
hands on it, out it will strike
wrong. You can tear the rosebud
open before its time, but you may
mar the beauty of the rose. So
we may spoil many a gift or bless¬
ing which God is preparing for u?
by our own eager haste. He is
weaving our lives into patterns'of
beauty and strength. He has a
perfect plan lor each. Don’t hur
ry the Almighty’s plan. We
must live by prayer in ignorance
of life. God's love is the motive
of all delay—to give us unexpect¬
ed and surprising blessings.
Man was made to protect, love
and cherish, not to undervalue,
neglect or abuse woman. Treat¬
ed, educated and esteemed, as
she merits, she rises in dignity,
becomes the refiner, and imparts
a milder, softer tons to man. No
oommunity has ever exhibited the
refinements of civilization and
social order where woman was
held in contempt and their rights
mot properly respected and pre
itrved. Degrade woman and
you degrade man more. She is
the fluid of the thermometer of
society, placed there by the hand
of the great Creator.
Mother, never for one moment
think that your doing is unim¬
portant. even if much of your
time is passed in the kitchen.
The noblest and the wisest live by
eating, nonpoetic and common as
it may seem. Think, tired house¬
wife, not how your piano trained
fingers are becoming stiff, awk¬
ward and flushed from moulding
the “staff of life,” but consider
what the members of your “sweet
home” are accomplishing. For
instance, the husband is, per¬
haps, a minister of the gospel,
winning souls to Jesus. Your
son is taking high rank in college
and your lovely daughter is to
go as a missionary, and all of
them derive strength of mind,
frame and muscle from “mother’s
table.” Are you not doing some¬
thing indispensable? Your kitch¬
en efforts help run all the ma¬
chinery of life. What would be¬
come of “home sweet home” if.
in discouragement, the mothers
and home girls ceased their do¬
ing? Out of the well kept homes
come the noblest of our land.
It is not always the husband
that brings home a keg of molass¬
es or a barrel of sugar that makes
home sweet. Some persons seem
to feel that, when the necessities
of the family are provided for,
their duty is completed, forgetting
that “Better is a dinner of herbs
where love is, than a stalled ox
and hatred therewith.” “A word
gently spoken is like applesof gold
in pictures of silver,” Many are
afraid to show themselves “kind¬
ly affectioned one toward anoth¬
er.” They shrink from the pos¬
sibility of being called “soft,”
but we are told by tfte best au¬
thority that “A soft answer turn
eth away wrath.” Let love at
home always stand with her arms
over us, tc help lift the burdens
that otnerwise would weigh us
down. Love lights a lamp that
glows on when all might be
shrouded in gloom.—Love, sweet
angel, strengthens the weary and
steadies the han 1 that carries
cordial to the sufferer’s lips.
There are no parents more
willing to toil early and late, and
more denying in comforts and
even necessities, that they may
freely expend their savings to
educate their children than those
on the farm. No one appreciates
the fact more than that the world
is to be influenced by the abilities
and knowledge of the coming
generation, and that the key note
of success is mental and physical
education. There has never been
a time when the daughter of the
home has been so practically con¬
sidered as a future factor in the
world’s progress as now. The
pretty Maud Muller raking hay
is not the average daughter of
our up-to-date farmer; she has
been thiuking in her own thought
and knows something more is re¬
quired than to pose with a rake
and look pretty. Neither does
she try to capture the old judge,
but just marries some loving
young man and spurs him on in
every way to honest victory and
success.
A wife has written us “that she
ha9 passed into the shadows be¬
cause her associates dress charm¬
ingly and she must be clad plain¬
ly, sometimes bordering on!o
shabby.” While it is hard to be
conscious that you are not dress¬
ed as another, yet after all the
world pays little attention to what
you wear. If your dres3 ii only
five cent calico, the soul that it
enshrines may be made fine by
high thinking and plain living,
the heart brightened by a heart
full of good cheer, and you will
wear the five cent calico like a
-queen. As a iule we love the
beautiful, and we long for beauty
of person and attractive apparel:
while these may be denied you,
you can live the beautiful, white
life. Too late? No indeed! Live
in the present: bury the past;
each day a new beginning. You
can make better women, you can
make the days brighterfor others,
you can so educate the mind and
heart that your good qualities
will recommend you to your j
friends, who will love you for ]
what yoc are and not for what
you wear. Many mother’s ward¬
robe contains but one dress, that
is worn upon all occasions; but
usually special this represents somei
self denial; possibly the
rich clothing that makes her
wardrobe conspieious by its ab¬
sence, pays a daughter’s way to
voice culture, or a son’s to pro¬
fessional life and sometimes the
women that you envy because of
charming appearance, have no
son or daughter, and thus they
too have reason to live in the
shadows.
The strength and glory of a
nation rests for security upon
the homes of its people. The
strength and power of the homes
of people is measured by the
character of the women who pre¬
side in them. Hence, whatever
uplifts and strengthens woman
makes the nation more secure.
Y'ou can correctly measure the
civilization of people by their es¬
timate of woman and the position
in society held by her. This
statement needs no enlargement.
Measured by this unerring stand¬
ard, not since the morning stars
sang together in celestial sym¬
phony at the dawn of creation,
has there been a time or a coun¬
try when and wherein woman
held a higher, holier place in the
life of the nation than at this
time in this great country of ours.
This can be said to the immortal
glory of this land. Our women
are the moral and spiritual life of
this republic. Their intellectual
activities are as boundless as
their opportunities are great.
In the realm of literature, of art,
of philosophy, in every depart¬
ment of intellectual life they are
winning golden laurels. But it
is in the home where woman rules
and reigns an uncrowned but roy
al queen, superb mistress of hu
man destinies; it is here she is the
real saver of life to this great na¬
tion.
The Southern papers have not
^ fact een that slow four to comment out of the upon five star the
graduates of West Point this
year are from the South, and the
following from a Northern paper,
the New York Mail, is a graceful
recognition of the distinction won
by these southern boys:
“It is not usual for one section
of the country to monopolize ca¬
det honors so completely as the
South has done this year; and
the “honor trust” so successful¬
ly created is the morenote worthy
because of the great size of the
class. In 1893 three out of the
five men who entered the en¬
gineer ctrps came from North
Carolina and Virginia, but so
large a portion of the Southern
erns among the star men has not
been attained since then,
“These men are Southerners,
and the South has a right to be
proud of them. But they are
Americans also—for the Spanish
war broke down the barriers be¬
tween the sections an A xvi pea out
Mason and Dijon’s line forever,
except as a' geographical term.
With “Joe” Lee back in the ser¬
vice, the North can feel no jeal¬
ousy because of the success of
these -Southern lads.”
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