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Regular 1 2c Percale, per yard hoc
Light Colored Calico, per yard 4c
Indigo Blue Oil Calico, per yard 5c
Curtain Scrim, per yard ........ 5c up
Bunting, white or colors 5c
Cotton Batting, extra quality, per pound . 12C
The Celebrated Dr. Warner's Corset. . . 50c up
26-inch Steel Rod Umbrella 50c
Notions
Pins per paper. ic
Safety Pins, per paper , ;c .
Hair Pins, per box 5c
Finishing Braid, bunch.......... 5c
Darning Cotton, 2 balls for.. 5c
Embroidery Silk, 6 spools 5c
White Tape, 2 rolls ................. ... 5c
Silk Finish Crochet Cotton, spool 5c
Sheet Wadding, 2 sheets 5c
Sewing Machine Oil, ice size bottle. 5c
Vaseline, bottle.......'. 5c
White Metal Tea Spoons. . . .6 for 15c
White Metal Table Spoons. 6 for 25c
Aluminum Thimble. 5c
,' Liquid Shoe Dressing 7c
We have a big quantity of Ladies
Shirt Waists and Skirts which we are
offering at a Big Reduction
We carry the J B. Lewis Wear
Resisted and Bradley &Metcalf Shoes
These shoes are well known and once
you use them will call for them again
We are making a special cut on shoes
We are agents for the celebrated
Standard Patterns Call and get fash
ion sheet free
We carry the celebrated Gilbert
Linings
Millinery
; ,, ': In our Millinery department we are offering special
inducements. , . '.' -
Sailor Hats , . '. . .'; , . . . . . . . . . . . . ... ........ 25c up
Trimmed Hats . . . . : ............ .$1 00 up
Men's Suspenders, full length, from 10c up
Men's Balbriggan Underwear, per suit 50c
Men's White Handkerchiefs. 5c
Men's Blue or Red Handkerchiefs . ......... 5c
Men's Heavy Working Gloves, from 25c up
Men's Working Shirts, from 2$c to ' 50c
Men's Fancy Dress Shirts............ ... 35c to 75c
Men's Black Satine Shirts. 45c
Men's Heavy Black Duck Shirts 60c
Straw Hats 5c up
Groceries
Tomatoes.......... .,.3 cans 25c
Corn 3 cans 25c
Oysters 3 cans " 15c
Washing Powder .......3 pounds 15c
Corn Meal 10 pounds 20c
Bulk Extracts. . , ; .per oz. 5c
Corn Starch. ... . . .',1. .per pound 5c
Roast Coffee .......... ..pound 10c up
Scouring Soap. . . .. . ... . ...-.,,. . jc
Good Syrup, in wooden pail, per pail 65c
"Our Mother's" Starch, same as Celluloid, with j '
...pound more to package IV; .".'joe
We also have on hand a large stock of Mason Fruit Jars
Caps and Rubbers.
Remember that we pay highest market prices for Farm Produce, Shingles, Etc.
I HIS STEPS.
"What Would Jesus Do?"
, By 0HABLE3 M. BHELDOH. . .
OopTrlgt'vd and published In book form by
tb Ac ftnoa Pabliahiiig Co. of Chicago.)
"That one factor ia the Christian
element in Raymond. Say The Newt
has lost heavily from the dropping off
of people who do not care far a Chris
tian daily and from others who simply
look npon a newspaper as a purveyor
of all sorts of material to amuse and
interest them, are there enough genu
ine Christian people in Raymond who
will rally to the support of a paper
such as Jeans would probably edit, or
are the habits of the people so firmly
established in their demands for the
Edward Norman looicea at ner Keen
ly, and his face flushed a moment as an
idea of Virginia's purpose crossed his
mind. He had known her when she was
a little girl in the Sunday school, and
he had been on intimate relations in
business with her father.
I "I should say a half million dollars
in a town like Raymond could be well
spent in the establishment of a paper
such as we have in mind, " he answered,
and his voice trembled a little. The
keen look on Edward Norman's grizzled
regular type of journalism that they , face flashed out with a stern but thor-
The after meeting at the First church
was now regularly established. Henry
Maxwell went into the lecture room on
the Sunday succeeding the week of the
primary and was greeted with an en
thusiasm that made him tremble at first
for its reality. He noted again the ab-
scence of Jasper Chase, but all the oth
ers were present, and they seemed
drawn very close together by a bond of
common fellowship that demanded and
enjoyed mutual confidences. It was the
general feeling that the spirit of Jesus
was a spirit of yery open, frank confes
sion of experience. It seemed the most
natural thing in the world for Edward
Norman to be telling all the rest of the
company about the details of his news
paper. "The fact is, I hare lost a good deal
of money during the last three weeks.
I cannot tell how ranch. I am losing a
great many subscribers every day."
"What do the subscribers srive as
their reason for dropping the paper I'
asked Henry Maxwell. All the rest were
listening eagerly.
"There are a good many different
reasons. Some say they want a paper
that prints all the news, meaning by
that the crime details, sensations like
prizefights, scandals and horrors of
various kinds. Others object to the dis
continuance of the Sunday edition. I
have lost hundreds of subscribers by
that action, although I have made sat
isfactory arrangements with many of
the old suscribers by giving even more
in the extra Saturday edition than they
formerly had in the Sunday issue. My
greatest loss has cume from a falling off
in advertisements and from the attitude
I have felt obliged to take on political
questions. This last action has really
cost me more than any other. The bulk
of my subscribers are intensely par
tisan. I may as well tell you all frank
ly that if I continue to pursue the plan
-Whicn 1 nonesuy oeueve oesua wuum
iu the matter of political issues and
their treatment from a nonpartisan and
mbral standpoint The News will not ba
able to pay its operating expenses un
less one factor in Raymond can be de
pended on."
He paused a moment, and the room
was very quiet Virginia seemed spe
cially interested. Her face glowed with
interest. It was like the interest of a
person who bad h-'cu thinlnr.!? hard of
the same thing Noru u wei.t on now
to mention. -
will not take a paper unless it is strip
ped largely of the Christian and moral
purpose ? I may also say in this fellow
ship gathering that, owing to recent
complications in my business affairs
outside of my paper, I have been
obliged to lose a large part of my for
tune. I have had to apply the same rule
of Jesus' probable conduct to certain
transactions with other men who did
not apply it to their conduct, and the
result has been the loss of a great deal
of money.
, "As I understand the promise we
made, we were not to ask any questions
about 'Will it pay?' but all our ac
tion was to be based on the one ques
tion, 'WTiat would Jesus do ?' Acting
on that rule of conduct, I have been
obliged to lose nearly all the money I
have accumulated in my paper. It is
not necessary for me to go into details.
There is no question with me now, aft
er the three weeks' experience I have j
had, that a great many men would lose
vast sums of money under the present
system of business if this rule of Jesus
were honestly obeyed. I mention my
loss here because I have the fullest faith
in the final success of a daily paper
conducted on the lines I have recently
laid down, and I had planned to put
into it my entire fortune in order to
win final success. As it is now, unless,
as I said, the Christian people of Ray
mond, the church members and profess
ing disciples, will support the paper
with subscriptions and advertisements, I
cannot continue its. publication on the
present basis. "
Virginia asked a question. She had
followed .Mr. Norman's confession with
the most intense eagerness.
"Do you mean that a Christian daily
ought to be endowed with a large sum,
like a Christian college, in order to
make it pay?"
"That is exactly what I mean. I
save laid out plans for putting into The
Sews such a variety of material, in
TOch a strong and truly interesting
way, that it would more than make up
for whatever was absent from its col
umns in the way of un-Chrlstian mat
ter, but my plans called for a very large
outlay of money. I am very confident
that a Christian daily such as Jesus
would approve, containing only what
he would print, can be made to succeed
financially if it is planned to the right
lines, but it will take a large sum of
money to work out the plans. "
"How much do you think t" asked
Yiririni oui1-
oughly Christian anticipation of great
achievements in the world of newspaper
life as it had opened up to him within
tne last tew seconds. 1 v..,,,.
"Then, " said Virginia, speaking as
if the- thought were fully considered,
"I am ready to put that amount of
money into the paper on the one condi-'
tion, of course, that it be carried on as
it has been begun. " -
"Thank God!" exclaimed Henry
Maxwell softly. Edward Norman was
pale. The rest were looking at Virginia.
She had more to say. .
"Dear friends." she went on, and
there was a sadness in her voioe that
made an impression on the rest that
deepened when they thought it over
afterward, "I do not want any of you
! to credit me with an act of grat gen-
erosity or philanthropy. I have come
to know lately that the money which I
have called my own is not ray own,
but God's. If I, as a steward of his, see
Borne wise way to invest his money, it
Is not an occasion of vainglory or
thanks from any one simply because I '.
have proved honest in my administra
tion of the funds he has asked me to
use for his glory. I have been thinking
of this very plan for some time. The
fact is, dear friends, that in our com
ing fight with the whisky power in
Raymond, and it has only just begun,
we shall need The News to champion
the Christian side. You all know that
all the other papers are for the saloon.
As long as the saloon exists the work
of rescuing dying souls at the Rectangle
is carried on at a terrible disadvantage.
What can Mr. Gray do with his gospel
meetings when half his converts are
drinking people, daily tempted and en
ticed by the saloon on every corner?
The Christian daily we must have. It
would be giving up to the enemy to
have The News fail. I have great cou-
Sdence in Mr. Norman's ability. I have
not seen his plana, but I have the con
fidence that he has in making the paper
succeed if it is carried forward on a
large enough scale.
"I cannot believe that Christian In
telligence in journalism will be inferior
to un-Christia.n intelligence, even when
it comes to making the paper pay finan
cially. So that is my reason for putting
this money God's, not mine into this
powerful dgent for doing as Jesus
would. If we can keep such a paper
going for one year, I shall be willing to
ree that amount of money used in the
experiment Do not thank me. Do not
ronsider mv rromise a wonder's! thing.
Wnat nave f done Wltn .tfou s money
all these years but gratify my own
selfish, physical, personal desires 1 What
can I do with the rest of it but try to
make some reparation for what I have
itolen from God T That is the w;ty I
look at it now. I believe it is what
Jesus would do. " '
Over the lecture room swept that un
seen yet distinctly felt wave of Divine
presence. No one spoke for awhile.
Henry Maxwell, standing there where
the faces lifted their intense gaze into
his, felt what he had already felt be
fore, a strange setting back out of the
nineteenth century into the first, when
the disciples had all things in common,
and a spirit of fellowship must have
flowed freely between them such as the
First church of Raymond had never
known. How much had his church
membership known of ' this fellowship
in daily interests before this little com
pany had begun to do as Jestfs would
do? It was with difficulty, that be
thought of. his 'present age and its sur
roundings. The same thought was pres
ent with all the rest also. . There was an
unspoken comradeship suoh as they had
never known. It was present with them'
while Virginia was speaking ' and ' dur
ing the silence that followed. If it had
been defined by any one of them, it
would perhaps have taken some such
shape as this
"If I shall in the course of my obedi
ence to uiy promise meet with loss 01
trouble i the world, I can depend upon
the genuine, practical sympathy and
fellowship of any other Christian in this
room who has with me made the pledge
, to do all things by the rule, 'What
j would Jesus do?' "
I All this the distinct wave of spiritual
! power expresHed It had the effect that
a physical miracle may nave naa on
the early di.-eiples in giving them a
feeling of confidence in their Lord that
helped thern to face loss and martyrdom
I with courage and even joy.
Before they went away this time
. there were seveTal confidences like those
! of Edward Norman Some of the young
men told of the loss of places owing to
their honest obedience to their promise.
Alexander Powers Bpoke briefly of the
j fact that the commission had promised
, to take action at the euiiieet date pos
sible.
He was already at his old work of
telegraphy It was a significant fact
that since bis action in resigning his
position neither his wife nor daughter
bad appeared in public. No one but
himself knew the bitterness of that fam
ily estrangement and misunderstanding
of the higher motive. Yet many of the
disciples present in the meeting carried
similar burdens. There were things
which they could not talk about. Henry
Maxwell, from his knowledge of his
church people, could almost certainly
know that obedience to this pledge had
produced in the hearts of families sep
aration of sympathy nnd even the intro
duction of enmity and hatred. Truly,
"a man's foes are they of his own
household" when the rnle of Jesus is
ODeyea by some ana aisooeyeu by oiu
srs. Jesus is a great divider of life. One
must walk either parallel with him or
directly across his path. . -But
more than any other feeling at
this meeting rose the tide of fellowship
for one another. Henry Maxwell watch
ed it, trembling for its climax, which
he knew was not yet reached. When it
was, where would It lead them? He
did not know, but he was not unduly
alarmed about it, only he watched with
growing wonder the results of that
simple promise as it was being obeyed
in these various lives. Those results
were already being . felt all over the
city. Who could measure their influ
ence at the end of the year ? : 1
, One practical form of this fellowship
showed itself in the assurances which
Edward Norman received in support of
his paper. There was a general flocking
toward him when the meeting closed,
and the response to his appeal for help
from- the Christian disciples in : Ray
mond was fully understood by this little
company. . The value of such a paper to
the homes and in behalf of good citizen--ship,
especially at the present crisis in
the eity, could not be measured. It re
mained to be seen what could be done
now that the paper was endqwed so lib
erally. But it still was true; as EdwarJ
Norman insisted. " that money alone
could not make the paper a power. It
must receive tho support and sympathy
of tho Christians in Raymond before it
could be counted as one of the great
Christian forces of the city. .
The week that followed this Sunday
meeting was one of great excitement
in Raymond. It was the week of the
election Donald Marsh, true to bis
promise, took up bis cross and bore it
manfully, bnt with shuddering, with
groans and even tears, for bis deepest
conviction was touched, and he tore
himself out of the scholarly seclusion
of years with rain and anguish that
eot him more than anything he had
ever done us a follower ut Christ With
him were a few of the college profewors
who had m;i the pledge in the l-'irst
church Their exeri' lire uii'l mirur.nx
were the h.iujh tv tile prruid iiv'h, t u
their iKolu'u.DU from ad lu u.Uica i,
citizenship had l cu t'le ku :e T' e
same wa aUo true uf Henry Max win I
who plnngcd into the horror of thin
fight agairiMt whisicy and its allies with
a sickening dread of each day's en
counter with it Never had he bornt
such a cross. He staggered nndpr (t
and in the brief intervals when hecii'i
in from the work and sought the qe
of his study for rest the sweat broke
out on his forehead, and he felt the ac
tual terror of one who marches into
unseen, unknown horrors. Looking back
on it afterward, he was amazed at his
experience. He was not a coward, but
be felt a dread that any man of his
habits feels when confronted suddenly
with a duty which carries with it the
doing of certain things so unfamiliar
that the actual details connected with
it betray his ignorance and fill him
with the sbpje of humiliation.
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