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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-12-10
A Bargain Rack of Jackets.

II Ladies' Jackets in English Beaver,
Black, Blue Broadcloth, Venetian, Ker-
sey and Cheviot Sizes 81, 81, 36 and
SO, were S. to SO, now $3.50 to 81.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-12-10
Umbrellas for Gifts.
Some Other Christmas Lines.

They'll only be limited at here, but
they're just as full of news for gift buy
ers as they can stick Want of space
bids us point the stock and then stop.
You'll wisely do the rest.
THE CLEARANCE SALE OF MILL
L1NERY AT HALE PRICE. CHRIST
MAS SAIlE OF COAT SUITS AND
FURS ALL REDUCED. THE NEW
BOHEMIAN VASES, LALIES' NECK
WEAR NOVELTIES. CHRISTMAS
DOLL DISPLAY, HOLIDAY EXIII-
BInION OF BOOKS, SNEAKERS
SETS AT HALE PRICE. VANTINHS
SPECIALTIES, THE LEATHER
GOODS.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-12-10

Japanese Silk Down Pillow-ruf-
fled. .......$2. SO
Silk and Tinsel Damask, Silk
back -. :. SO. so
Black and Colored Satin, Tinsel
Embroidery .... 81. so
Silk Damasse, Down filed $500
Hand Painted China and Liberty
silk. -. ........$ $500
Mew4Sical Pillow. Embroidered. 5000
Cloth Applique, Milan Braid. :. $1O.O 90
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-12-10
Handkerchiefs.

But we've told you about them before.
Handkerchiefs enough in this store at
this time to supply the whole community
with gifts.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-12-10


Hand Painted China and Liberty
Silk. -. $500
Mew-Sical Pillow. Embroidered. SO. 90
Cloth Applique, Milan Braid. $1,000
The Toys, the Games.
Wonderland for the little folks. Can't
go into descriptions, can emphasize the
varieties. Come and let the stock talk
to you; let the prices tempt you.
Checker Boards, Dominoes, Bagatelle,
Ten Pins, Ring Toss, Fish Pond, Moose
Hunt, Voyage to the Moon, Mansion OF
Happiness, Game of Dart, Lotto, Go
Bang, donkey and New Woman Party,
Standard Authors, Uncle Sans War with
Spain, Miles at Porto Rico, Shatfer at
Santiago, Roosevelt at San Juan, Dewey
at Manila Schley at Santiago, Croconole
Boards, Table Croquet and La Lutte
all at cut prices all the from sc. to
... -. -. ......... So. 90
at Manila, Schley, Croconole Boards,
Table Croquet and la Lutta-all at cut
prices all the way from SC. to $500
Outdoor Sports.
Battle Door and Shuttle Cock-Flying
Dutehman.
Magic Lanterns.
YAH complete for an exhibition Slide
and Revolving Pictures. Tickets, etc
so, SO, So so and $500.
Umbrellas for Gifts.
And by the way, most sensible gifts at
that. A more comprehensive stock
t'would be hard to find; more worthily
priced stock does mot exist.
Fine Silk Rain and Sun Umbrel-
las, elegant gold and silver
amounted handles. Walking Canes
Ivory handles. sterling silver
trimmed-in glass show case at
front door-price anywhere
from 81 90 to. S.. OO
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-12-10

line of Mems Boys Suits Overcoats
many dollars Your money back if goods wanted
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-12-10

Manicure Sets and Salve Boxes, soc.
-25 CENTS
Tooth Brushes, Curling Irons, Paper
Cutters, Viniagettes, Emery Cushions,
Shoe and Glove Buttoners, Salve Boxes,
Brushes, 15c.; Manicure KNIVES, Glove
Buttoners, etc.
Dress and Skirt Patterns at less than
Importers Prices.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-07-08
A Great Polyglot.

Solomon Caesar Malan habitually
conversed with his children in Latin,
but on his deathbed, when Solomon,
his son, began to recite psalm in the
familiar Vulgate of his youth, the dy-
ing man, scholar TO the last, muttered,
mon ita, non ita! Hebraics;" so the
son repeated it in Hebrew.
He could. for that matter, just as
we'll have said it in Coptic or Chinese,
for to him all tongues came naturally.
at Is he could write in IS languages,
oriental and European, and among his
published works we find TRANSACTIONS
from the Arabic, Persian, Syriac, Ethi-
opic, Hebrew, Coptic, Armenian, Geor-
gian, Mongol, Chinese, Korean, Japa-
nese, Greek, Russian, Welsh and Goth
ic. He is said to have learned to speak
Armenian fuently in a fortnight, and
he preached in Georgian to Georgian
congregation in the cathedral of Kutais.
Saturday Review.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-07-08
The Basis of Credit.

A mans past record, with but few
exceptions, should determine the ques-
ton of his eligibility for credit in the
future. If he has been slow pay in the
past, he will probably be slow pay in
his next purchases. If he has been
prompt and satisfactory, he will likely
be the same again. As an instance I
might mention case which recently
came under my notice. A trader who
had gradually got to be slow and unsat
isfactory was compelled to assign. His
failure was not due to any misfortune,
such as fire or flood, but seemed the
natural consequence of his incompetence
and lack of management. A wholesale
house which had been supplying him
lost heavily, but compromised, and as
he continued they still sold him, but on
30 days time. For awhile he promptly
attended to his payments, but after a
time he got slower and slower, and a
he was a liberal buyer and his purchases
were allowed to accumulate he soon
owed bill far larger than his means
would warrant. AS this dragged along
for some years compromise was grant
ed upon this Indebtedness Also Still he
chung to his old creditor and again or
dered goods, promising to send the
money within 80 days. But his past
record was too much even for so lenient
a creditor. He was told plainly that he
would get no more goods on credit and
that if he ordered anything cash must
accompany the order IN every case.
Now, a man of this stamp is positive
detriment to a man who pays his bills.
after thus being refused credit by the
old house he will try and get it else
where and no doubt will succeed. But
if his record is known it should be q
final answer to the question of granting
him credit.-Hardware.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-07-08
The Greatest News Gath
ering Agency Ever
Formed

enabled it to thus acquit itself with credit and
distinction. 1t still possesses the same fa-
cilities for keeping in touch with the world at
large, while its resources for covering the
LOCAL FIELD promptly and thoroughly
have not been diminished Have THE
ARGUS on your list of friends,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-07-08
A WORD WITH HUSBANDS.
Give Your Vile 3 Little Praise Once In
Awhile ard See How 1t Works

Give Your Wiro Little Praise Once In
Awhile and See How 1t Works.
If husbands only knew, or, if know
ing, only cared, how very much their
words and manners affect the tempera-
ture of the home world, they would
never by word or deed leave it en-
shrouded in gloom" argues Mrs. A.
NJ. Marriott in an article entitled
praise Your Wife, in Woman's Home
Companion. ITO most wives the hus-
band is the sun around which every
thought revolves There is scarcely an
instant in which his presence is not felt
as she goes about her work or even when
at rest. If she is preparing the meals.
the way John likes this or that or some
remark he has made about some article
of food is recalled to mind. If she looks
about her, she sees his hats and coats
hanging on the hooks, and the hats in
variably wear the same expression
Johns face wore when he left in the
morning-a jolly. good humored look if
he went away pleasant; if angry, a
gruff, defiant, attend to your own bust
ness air takes the place of the so lately
gentle pliable shapes in felt and fairly
bristle with wrath over some trifle, but
little world for many a weary day, per-
chance, ere it is seemingly forgotten.
''There is 10 true woman but will re-
pay her husband over and over again
for kind, thoughtful treatment. He is
ready to call her childish, and she may
seem so to him; but one thing is sure
a woman never forgets.
"All little deeds of love or thought
fitness sown by his hand yield a certain
and abundant harvest. She may love
her home better than any other spot ON
earth, yet she sometimes gets so weary
of the daily routine of never ending
duties that fall to her lot that she can
not help an occasional feeling of envy
for those who have more time for recre-
alton, for going abroad, for all the little
things dear TO the heart of every woman,
but which the stern hand of duty most
effectually debars her from enjoying.
Still, for all that, she would not for the
whole world exchange places, even if
she could, with any other woman, leav-
ing home and John-dear old John-as
the price of her freedom from care.
'If your wife has been faithful and
true wife to you, tell her SO. Do not
think it lowers your manliness any to
let her know that she still has place
in your affections. She has toiled early
and late for you and your children,
through sickness and health, and self
denial has grown to be her motto. 1t
takes but little from her loved ones to
make her happy, so do not begrudge her
a word of praise now and then as her
just reward, and of far more value to
her starving heart than gold. There are
some things which money can never
buy, and wounds which it cannot heal,
but love levels all obstacles, overcomes
ali difficulties and UNNECESSARILY sweet
ems life.''
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-07-08
The Dear Child

Little Tommie-Sister Lillian likes
to have you come here
MIR. Simperling-Aw, indeed! How
do you know that?
/. Little Tommie-Well, people always
like what makes them glad, don't they?
Mr.. Simperling-Generally. But how
DO you know make her glad?
Little Tomnie-I heard her tellin
one of the other girls today that she
Just had TO laugh every time she looked
at you.-Cleveland Leader.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-07-08

''What do You think of the dog?"
asked the owner.
The dog fancier merely glanced at
him and then shook his head.
''He might do pretty well in the
country somewhere or pretty far out in
the suburbs" he said, but he isn't
homeIy enough 10 ever bring much of a
price among the dog owners Of the
fashionable world Chicago Post.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-07-08

Have you ever travelled in the
south7' asked the New Orleans man of
she chap from Bangor. Ne
'Oh, yes, indeed. said the Maine
nnan- II have been to Boston and New
Yo-k. Harper Bazaar.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-07-08
The Critics.

Flick-Call him a musiciani Why.
he doesn't know the difference between
q nocturne and a symphony.
Flack-You don't mean it?
And they hurry to get away from one
another. Each is terribly afraid that tho
other will ask, by the way, what Is
the difference:'-Boston Transcript.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-07-08
The Up-tO-date Newspaper
is the CfrOniCIer of
Current History.

We can best Judge what may be by what has
been, and in making provision for keeping
ABREAST OF THE TIMES. Seek the
companionship of the paper that did not fail
YOU DURING THE LATE WAR. THE
DAILY ARGUS served its constituency
faithfully and reliability. Its news
accurate in every particular and detail, and
beyond that it was prompt in laying before
its readers the stirring events they occur
ed Its membership in the Associated Press
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-07-08
In These
TiKneS~Of WaI
$780, -

Of war just ended, of war existing, and pos
sibly of A GREATER WAR COMING,
when the affairs of the world are rapidly
assuming new FORMS the people seek quite
naturally to be INTELLIGENTLY IN
FORMED of the events as they develop in
their day and generation.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1899-07-27
A Chair of UncIeism Needed.

Unclehood is about the hardest hood
man has to wear, and, as have observ-
ed uncles and their habits, they either
spoil or repel the small chaps and chap
posses who happen to be made their
nephews and nieces by an accident of
birth. Uncles are either intensely
genial or intensely irritable, and as tar
as I am concerned it is my belief that
our colleges should include in their car
riculum chair Of "uncleism."
Unclehood is relationship that man
has to accept. 1t is thrust upon him.
He can't help himself. To be father
or a mother is a matter Of volit1On. But
even in a free country like our own, if
a man has a brother or a sister, he is
liable to find himself an uncle at any
time whether he wishes to be one or
not. Then when it happens he's got to
reason out a course of procedure with
out any basis in previous experience
John Kendrick Bangs in Woman's
Home Companion.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1899-07-27
A BRIGHT IDEA.
But Weary's Pard Found q Fatal
Flaw In the Scheme.

But Weary's Pard Found q Fatal
Flaw In the Scheme.
pete" exclaimed Meandering Mike,
'I'm gittin res'lessr'
Don't do it. Take things easy while
We kim"
Ever since 1 dropped into dat lee
ture hall last winter to git warm I've
had SOmet'in on me mind, an l can't
git it loose. 1t rankles in me con-
science an oyerhelms me wit re'liz-
in sense of de resistlessness Of fate.
story any way you take it. But man
Of brains kin sometimes git de best of
de situation"
"Dat lecture mus of sunk into yer
system Deep"
ut did. But I've got a scheme dat'll
help out. De mex time we takes a
freight train Wen take one goin
east"
"What furY'
"Did you ever hear Of velocityw
"Sure. Dey's got tree wheels, an de
kinchens tries to run over you wit
'em."
"Dat's close to. but not next. Veloc-
ity is what de world moves wit. It's
so many miles a second. We're goin it
all de time, shown from west to east,
an when you thinks ye're restin it's on
ly another delusion an snare. Ye
can't stop movin."
"Well," asked Flooding Pete, discon-
tentedly, "what're you going to do
about itw
"Jes' what I told We. De worlds
movin from west to east. De only
chance to neutralize de swiftness is to
take train goin from east to west 1
dunno as we kin hope fur any actual
repose, but it's de only chance I see
fur comm anywheres near it"
''It's bright idea, but it won't do"
"Why not"
"It only works one way. We can't
keep on ridin west furever. An t'ink
of de double exertion when we have
to turn aroun an come de other wayw
Washington Star.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1899-07-27
"Money to patent good ideas may
be secured by our aid. Address THE
ATENT RECORQ, Baltimore, Md.
Priceless Pain

"rf Q price can be placed on pain, 'Aothef.e
Friend 'is worth It's weight in gold as an allevik
afor My wife suffered more In ten minutes WITH
either Of her other two children than she did al
together with her last, having previously use
to any one expecting to become mother" say0
Q customer.
Thus writes Henderson Dale, Druggist.
Of Carmj, NJ, to the Bradfeld Regulates
Company, of Atlanta, Ca, the proprie-
tors and manufacturers Of Mothers
Friend" This successful remedy Is not
one of the many internal medicines adj
vertised to do unreasonable things, but .
scientifically prepared liniment especially
effective in adding strength and elasticity
to those parts of woman's organism which
bear the severest strains of childbirth.
The liniment may be used at any and
all times during pregnancy up to the
very hour of confinement: The earlier 4
Is begun, and the longer used, the more
perfect will be the result, but it has been
used during the last month on1V with
great benefit and success.
It not only shortens labor and leaaerl
the pain attending it, but greatly dimiu-
ishes the danger to life Of both mother
and child, and leaves the mother in con.
dition more favorable to speedy recovery.
Mothers Friend is sold by druaYisn
ut $I.oo, or sent by express On rectip1 =
price.
Valuable book for wemen, "De1nn
Baby Is Born.' sent free On sppiicatun.
Rs RRAnFEks neGULaTsR O.. MaanA -
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1899-07-27
OLD SOILS RIDE IN 194e.
Flowery Weather Predictions of tn,
Journalists of Long Ago.

Flowery Weather Predictions of the
Journalists of Long Ago.
In these days Of practical newspa-
per writing, in which bald facts are
expressed in the plainest and tersest
form, the fowery language INDUCED
in by some Of the Journalists" half a
century ago sounds peculiar. The
following poetic CONFUSION was copied
by one of the local papers from the
New York Tribune in 1S49 as worthy
Of high place in the newspaper lit
erature Of the day:
"On Saturday evening at II minutes
past II o'clock the sun rode calmly
and mildly over the autumnal equinox
and cast his golden anchor on the win
try coast Of autumn. But as yet the
vast ocean Of air through which he
sails is glowing and transparent with
the memory Of the long summer days
that have passed over it, darting their
rich beams to its very depths. Even
as we write, however, the remem-
brance fades, like the sky's blanching
souvenirs of sunset, and in the dis
lance the cold ghosts Of winter glare
and wave their frozen wings, which
creak on icy hinges, while in the 81
lence of midnight prophetic voice Of
wailing and desolation means fitfully
at the easement"
Few people can contemplate this
specimen of literary architecture with
out experiencing feeling Of awe and
sadness, with a few cold shivers on
the side. 1t is proof positive that the
profession has in some things gained
by what it has lost.-Albany Argus.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1899-07-27
IN THE CHARITY HOSPITAL.

Elie u funny and brown and sweet,
His wool would kink, if they let it grow,
.e wears plaster cast on his feet
And lives his life in a hospital row.
Rows on rows of white little beds,
White little faces, rows on rows;
White little pillows for little heads,
And that is the world which Willie knows.
Willie plays on his cot all day,
Passing rich with bit of string
And laughs when any one comes his way,
Into the world where he is king.
Narrow realm for king to rulel d
Scanty treasure he boards and spends! ~
A flower, marble, broken spool
But then, you see, it all depends
Nobody cuddles him up again
And tucks him close at night with kiss.
Nurses are busy of course, and then,
Who but mother could ever do this2
Nobody folds his brown little hands
And teaches him, snow lay me" there,
But Some One listens and understands
When Willie stumbles saying his prayer.
Out in the world men work apd fight,
And some are wounded, and some must fall,
And the right goes wrong and the wrong come
right,
But it never bothers Willie at all.
Wooliy and funny and brown and sweet,
Living his own little life apart,
With a plaster cast on his poor little feet,
And Gods own sunshine sure In his heart.
-Mable Earle in Youths Companion.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1899-07-27
A Translation.

"In one Of the schools Of this city"
says the Worcester Gazette, ''the teach.
er, intending to relieve the monotony
Of the regular exercises, asked the pu-
pills if they would not like to sing. OF
course there was an instant clamor in
the affirmative, and then the teacher
asked what song they would prefer
One little boy, in his eagerness to make
the selection, spluttered out something
ing to the boy across the aisle, she ask.
I'd what Johnnie said. Please came
the unexpected answer, he says he
wants to sing Ellis Country, Ills OF
Him."
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1899-07-27
Or. Fenner' Blood and Liver
Remedy Sa Nerve Tonic.

A famous remedy by famous physician
guaranteed to cure liver complaints and ner-
vousness. People run down by sickness
and overworked should try it. If some
thing else has failed you that is no argu-
ment against this great medicine. Stop to
reflect. This preparation is the prescription
of one of Americas most eminent physiy
clans and the first bottle is guaranteed by
Scheldrup & Fiesler to give satisfaction or
money refunded.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1899-07-27
MaIaria's Victims.

Major Ross said in a recent lecture
at Liverpool that malaria was not so
dramatic a disease as cholera; it did
not kill so quickly, but it killed far
more people. In India it killed about
100000 people year. 1t was also
a politically important disease, because
it checked the progress of civilization
in districts the richest in the world,
killing more Of the English army than
were killed by the enemy.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1899-07-27
rhen He Didn't Eat.

An English merchant was invited by
a Chinaman to dine with him. Neither
could speak the others language, and
a conversation was carried on by
means Of gesticulations and signs.
Among the dishes was one which seem.
ed very savory. The Englishman had
an idea it was duck, but to make GER
tain he pointed to the dish and pleas.
antly insinuated, "Quack, quack"
said: "No-ey, no-ey! Bow-wow-wsw!
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1899-07-27
A Sudden Introduction.

a Philadelphia paper tells a funny
story of the blizzard days Of last win.
ter 10 that city. A certain Mr.. K. had
over his dining room skylight which
was burdened with great weight of
snow, and early one evening he took a
snow shovel and went up to remove it.
He shoveled it off, and then it occurred
to him that he would perform the same
service for his next door neighbor,
whose dining room lay side by side
with his own, the construction of the
two houses being alike.
The inmate of the next house was a
worthy widow, whom Mr.. K. had new
er met, but with whom his wife was
on calling terms.
Mr.. X. proceeded to a position from
which he could, as he supposed, safely
shovel off the snow, but in doing so he
made false step and got on the sky
light. Crash! went the glass, and down
through the aperture went Mr.. K.
It CHANGED that his next door neigh
Dor was just at this time eating her
dinner. Mr.. X. landed in sitting pos
ture in the middle of her table, sur
rounded by snow, broken glass and
china, capsized dishes Of food, and still
manfully brandishing his snow shovel.
The shovel told the story to the wild
ow. Although somewhat disconnected.
she quickly regained her composure,
recognized the neighbor whom she had
seen pass her door, and exclaimed, po-
ntely:
"Oh, Mr.. K, am very glad you
have called! I've often heard Mrs. K
speak Of your
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1899-07-27
relief I'm SIX Hours.

! .stressing Kidney and Bladder, disease
relieved in six hours by the "New Great
surprise ua on account 4 Or its exceeding prompt
ness in relieving pain in bladder, kidneys
and back, in male or female. Relieves re-
tention OF water almost Immediately. fyou
want quick relief and cure this is the Rem
edy. Sole by Scheldrup & Fiesler.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1899-07-27

SALESMAN WANTED.-We want q
couple of reliable men in this county
to sell our Minnesota grown fruits
farm seeds. Write for terms il want
ing steady work, and good pay.
TEE Jewell NURSERY Co.
si.15 Laks City, MINI.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1899-07-27
Resented.

@And how did you come to marry
him?"
81 didn't come to marry him." an
swered the womanly little woman in
dignantly, she came to marry me-
Chicago Post.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1899-07-27
A Word to the Wise is su
fIC lent.

Ely's Cream Balm has completely cured
me OF catarrh when everything else failed
Alfred w. Stevens, Caldwell, Ohio.
Ely's Cream Balm works like charm; il
has cured nie of the most obstinate case of
cold in the head: would not be without it.
-Fred'k Fries, ass Hart.st., Brooklyn, N.
Y.
A ice trial size or the soc size of Ely's
Cream Balm will be mailed Kept by drug
gists. Ely Brothe-s. So Warren stree,
N