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The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1913-06-25
MILL-END SALE
We Are Determined to Make This
Week the Biggest of All Big
Mill-End Selling.

If we sell to your neighbor fresh Mill-Ends at
Mill-End cost, and the goods are just like you
have bought in regular way in some retail store,
and you find you paid nearly double, will you be
convinced there is good reason why 80 many
thousands people wait for this big sale?
Can you stay away from this Mil. End Sale when
you know you can buy Lingerie Dresses worth
S5O.0 for $685. Dresses worth $500 for $19 75
and hundreds of others in the lot at prices you
Will be delighted with when you see them?
Dresses worth $32.50 for 81. 95, Dresses worth
$500 for S14.75, and right on down the line to
$1,000 Dresses for $595, and daintiy trimmed
Dresses that sold for $500 for S1.95. Come to
this big Mill-End Sale this week. Everybody come.
Silk Dresses worth up to $3.50 for IS.
This week we will sell as long as lot lasts
Women's Silk Dresses, made of soft silks and
messaline in stripes and solid colors; values up to
$3.50. Every dress this seasons best STYLES,
oacn. $500
This Week We Bunch all Our Finest
Silk Dresses, for Choice $1,000.
In the lot are Dresses formerly priced at s14 rs.
s1775 and up to S25OO. Silk messaline, crepe de
chine, charm ,euse Dresses. all this seasons most
charming styles. At the ridiculous price thew
will be sold for you should hurry here and select
the dress you want at special sale price $40
Women's Coat Suits, Perfectly Stun.
ming Styles.
All wool, just the weight cloths wante for sum-
mer wear, beautifully tailored, worth s25 90 and
up to S35 90. Every suit this seasons most charm
ing models Special, for choice, the suit $40
Women's, Misses and Childrens Trim
med Hats $i.95.
Worth $3.50, s4.00, $500, $500 and $780, Every
hat new and full Of style. le....,. s1 o,
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SHEETS AND PILLOW
CASES.

Very elegant quality Muslin, slight
ly imperfect and sold as are: 76x9O
inches, as long as lot lasts; Mill.End
Sale price, each. SOC
72x90 inch Sheets, splendid soc
quality; special Mill-End Sale price,
Slx90 inch Sheets, seamless, would
be cheap at 9ec; special Mill End Sale
price, each. .69c
Pepperell Bleached Sheeting, 1914,
full 80 inches wide, limit 10 yards
to the buyer, at special Mill-End Sale
price, the yard. .25c
Splendid quality Pillow Gases, 45x36
inches, linen finish, special Mill-End
Sale price, each. .1Cc
Domino and Cragsmore Apron Cling
hams, the color is warranted pure in
digo; special Mill-End Sale price, the
Sea Island, smooth quality, free
from notes, full yard-wide; special
Mill-End Sale price, the yard. sc
Manchester Chambray. the best 1Oc
grade, at Mill-End Sale price, the
Io'perial and Regal Longcloth. Sc
inches wide, II yards in the bolt; Mill
End Sale price, for II yards. .... .S1.N
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MUSLIN UNDERWEAR.

Children's Pants and Bodies, O, 1,
ana o.. .lOc
Children's Pants and Bodies, 4, 5
anu o.. o.-.......... ..................l .loC
Ladies' Pants, Corset Covers and
Short Skirts. ................... .25c
Ladies' Pants, Corset Covers, Che
mise, Long Skirts and Gowns. soc
Ladies' Pants, Corset Covers, Che
mis- e, Skirts, Princess Slips, Combina.
ton Suits and Gowns .s1.OO
Ladies' Gowns, made of fine nain-
sock, elaborately trimmed in lace and
embroidery 1925, 81 so, $500, $3.50.
Ladies' Princess Slips made of lawn
and fine nainsook. trimmed in lace
embroidery, beading and ribbon 81. s5.
S1.50, $1.9o, $3.50 and s2.ss.
The new Bulgarian Blouses, white
skirts and striped blouses in brown,
blue, black and pink stripe with Cir
dies and tie to match. Ratine dresses
Wild bulgarian Blouse, III tan, blue,
white and lavender. very special. $40
Special purchase Of Linen Hucka-
back Towels, 1896 and 2Ox4O; values
to 25c, all white and with red borders;
Mill-End Sale. each. .15c
Whole Dozen. ..$1.75
27-inch, natural color, brown blouse
Linen, value zoe; Mill-End Sale, yard
(Limit Is yards).
36-inch, natural color, brown blouse
Linen, warranted all pure flax and
worth s?5c, Mill-End Sale. yard .l5c
(Limit 10 yards).
soc quality Linen Ramie Crash in
good assortment of colors; NIiIl-End
Sale, yard. ...... .............39 80,
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ORDER BY PARCEL POST.

All during this Mill-End Sale on
orders amountiugato $500 and over
weswiH pay all charges. If your order
amounts to less than $500 include
postage. ALI mail orders have prompt
and careful attention.
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FINE SILK RIBBONS,

Ribbons for all occasions and pur-
poses. What more can we say? Worth
up to S1.00 yard; Mill End Sale price,
the yard. d..................1 .15c, zoe, Csc
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-12-07

Of these phenomena will arise from the
dcepened certainty which it gives as 10
the permaronce Of the individual after
death OF Immortality | say nothing.
That cannot from the nature of things be
demonstrated. But life after death
a life In which those who live on this
side of the grave retain their identity in
the other world-that may yet be demon
strated by tests as exact and as conclu-
eive as any Of which the science of physi-
olOgy admits. When dust returns to
dust and ashes to ashes. the Ego lives
on. the personal identity. the conscious
ness Of the individual, does not seem TO
be even momentarily impaired. IL does
not seem 10 be too bold a speculation to
believe that the patient methods of Undue
tive science, the careful examination or
evidence. and the repeatedly renewed eX-
periments OF investigators will before
lcrg completely re-estabish the falling
belief IN the reality OF the world beyond
the grave and leave us with little room
fer doubt as to the existence of the
spirit ate. death as we have now to
doubt the existence Of Boring Strait or
Of the Pyramids"
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think again as to whether they would or
would not support me.
There were many other men of mark
i'm both houses with whom | could work
on some points, whereas on others we
had 10 differ. There WAS one powerful
leader-a burly. forceful man. of adj
mirable traits-who had. however. been
trained in the post-bellum school OF busi-
ness and politics, so that his attitude
toward life. quite unconsciously, re-
minded me a little of Artemus Wards
view Of the Tower OF London-"lf / Ike
it I'll buy it." There was big govern
mental Job in which this leader was
much interested, and In reference TO
which he always wished me to consult
man whom he trusted, whom I will call
Pitt Rodney. One day | answered him.
THE trouble with Rodney Is that he mis-
estimates his relations to cosmos: TO
which he responded: Cosmos. Cosmos?
Never heard of him You stick TO Rod
new He's YOUR man.
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exactly the time and the manner that he
had predicted.
This seances is regarded as the first
evidence OF his interest In spiritualism
\ fat little man had taken the place Of
the Pythian priestess and questions were
put to him by the audience. The ques-
tons were not spoken, but were framed
only in the mind. They had TO be In
such a form that they could be an
swered by yes or no. The hand Of the
Sorcerer." the description runs. "smote
tire table once for no, thrice for yes, and
when the Oracle was uncertain, he struck
it twice. The movement of his hand and
arm was convulsive, as If beyond his con-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-12-07
AUTOMATIC WRITING.

In 1872, continues his daughter, in quot
ing from her fathers writings, he be-
came conscious for the first time Of his
ability 10 write automatically. II came
about through the means Of young lady.
the daughter Of an Indian officer who
possessed this power and whose hand ~
its own voltion had warned a gentleman
against selling some property to a certain
agent because he was being swindled and If
careful would ultimately obtain much more
for it, The warning was justified. and the
affair fell into the lines that were pre-
dictcd Icy the unseen correspondent The
young lady then tried her power before
Mr. Stead. and the spirit that supposedly
was guiding her became very much I'm
evidence. Mr. Stead finally attempted the
writing himself. and before he sat three
minutes in passive expectation his hand
began 10 move Various spirits came into
evidence through this writing and many
OF the messages have been preserved in
the Bureau of Archives.
The power of prophecy that appeared
from time 10 time In Mr.. Stead, accord
ing 10 his friends and relatives. was Illus
trated strangely in story that he wrote
for the Christmas number Of the English
Review of Reviews" in 1892. which prac-
tically described HIS own death as it took
place on the Titanic twenty years later.
The title Of the story was From the Old
World to the New" II described how
the Majestic struck an iceberg and went
down with all hands save one. The Incl
dent was purely fictitious, says Miss
Stead. but IL was a strange coincidence
that the captain of the Majestic at that
time was Captain Smith, who later COM
manded the Titanic and was drowned
with the author Of the story. The par
trait OF Captain Smith was published with
the story. footnote stating, however that
he must not in any way be confused with
the fictitious captain with whom the story
dealt.
Mr.. Stead became more and more inter
ested in psychical problems OF an occult
nature. For several years he contributed
to magazine called "Borderland," a
psychic quarterly which he himself had
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-12-07

founded. Whenever mediums, crystal
gazers and magical quacks Of ell descrip-
tions came to see him, they were assured
of a careful hearing, as he desired 10 let
nothing genuine escape, even though II
were concealed in n mass OF the grossest
fraud
Spirit photography began 10 Interest
him when he learned of the alleged IN
tl.usion OF spirit from the shadow world
upon the background Of Photographic
plates that were devoted to portrait
making. The beginning of his experience
with this marvel was as follows:
In London there lived an aged photos-
rapher. a man Of no education, who began
his work in the days when the wet proc
css of negative making was almost uni
versar. and he became more annoyed than
startled TO find that number OF his
plates were spoiled by the presence Of
other forms than that of the actual sitter.
His partner was made angry by this ard
claimed that the plates had not been
washed before they were used. lie as
sured the man of his care, and to prove
it asked if he might bring some OF his
own plates with which to take a photo
graph. This was done, but when the
plate was developed a shadowy form APP
peared in the background at one side OF
the sitter. The photographer was fright
ened and angry at this and nunG the
plate to the floor with an oath. From
that time on he was not troubled for
yrpa
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Continued from third page.

dock / was apt to discuss pretty nearly
everything relating TO either our in
ternal or our external affairs. There
were many. many others. Senator
Clark, of Arkansas. was as fearless
and high minded a representative
of the people of the United States
as ever dealt with. He was one Of the
men who combined loyalty to his own
state with an equally keen loyalty to the
people of all the United States He was
politically opposed 10 me; but when the
interests of the country were at stake he
was incapable of considering party differ
ences: and this was especially his attitude
in international Understanding certain
treaties which most OF his party col
leagues, with narrow lack OF patriotism
and complete subordination OF national
to fractional interest, opposed. l have
never anywhere met finer, more faithful
more disinterested and more loyal pubic
servants than Senator o. II. Plat, Re
publican from Connecticut, and Senator
Cockrell, a Democrat from Missouri.
They were already old men when / came
to the Presidency; and doubtless there
were points on which seemed TO them to
be extreme and radical; but eventually
they found that our motives and beliefs
were the same, and they did all in their
power to help any movement that was
for the interest Of our people as a whole.
/ had met them when | was Civil Service
Commissioner and Assistant Secretary of
the Navy All ever had to do with either
as to convince him that a given measure
championed was right, and he then at
nee did all he could to have ii put into
effect If | could not convince them why,
Il at was my fault, or my misfortune; but
II I could convince them | never had TO
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troll. And the curious thing about II
was that no answer was returned II the
inquirer uttered his question aloud. TO
a question framed in the mind. to which
no utterance was given. an answer was
returned Immediately. But If the lips
moved or the tongue spoke, the Oracle
was dumb"
Full of the scandal of the existing
political situation. Stead asked questions
relating 10 It's outcome. The answers
were positive and later. he declares, were
verified by actual events.
At that seance the following prophecy
was made:
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STEAD'S APPEARANCE.

He appeared to me-" Mrs. Feldman de-
clarcd, Just as he was when his spirit
passed out of his body. He was sitting
up i'm his berth. with one foot on the
floor of the cabin. lie realized that IN
ship was sinking, and stated that NJ
passed over at that instant. painless and
exalted, as all good spiritualists do.
Il inquired if he had any message. lie
replied that he was very busy now, but
that he would be with us later"
In the book that has just been pub
lshed by the George II. Doran Company
the spiritualists daughter, Estelle w.
stead, gives personal "reminiscences OF
her father, in which his researches in the
occult are fully dwelt upon. There IS
also much material concerning the active
warfare that the journalist waged against
The SNUG complacency of England in the
face of the most serious vice problems
of his confinement in Cold Bath-in-the-
Fields prison of his ideals, aims, aspira-
tons and family life-forming on the
whole most interesting document con-
corning an active and a visionary char
acter. William T. STEAD may or may not
have appeared in Julia's Bureau, as his
daughter says he did, and in the boudoirs
If soulful LADIES who are so sure Of the
appearance of their auras that they would
smear them with cosmetic If 1t would
only stick. But whether he has reap
peared or not. the new book that gives the
intimate details of his life has an inter
est that is farreaching.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-12-07
HELP FROM OUTSIDE.

Outside OF the public servants there
were multitudes of men, in newspaper
offices. i'm magazine Offices in business or
the professions, or on farms or in shops,
who actively supported the policies for
which / stood and did work of genuine
leadership which was quite as effective
as any work done by men in public
Office. Without the active support of
these men ] would have been powerless.
In particular, the leading newspaper cor
respondents at Washington were as a
whole singularly able, trustworthy and
public spirited body of men and the most
useful of all agents in the fight for eff
fcient and decent government.
As for the men under me in executive
office. / could not overstate the debt of
gratitude | owe them. From the heads OF
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ins near the sea wall Of Governors
Island
JeIries tried to come back, and the re-
wlt was disastrous. With the late jour
1allst. however. things are different. Last
year he addressed the fifth annual con-
vcution OF the Pennsylvania State Sphitl-
als;s Association by giving a message
to Mrs Mary H. Fcldman. Of Carrick,
who said that she was inspired by him
TO infcim the meeting that he was HAPPY
O. nd ,-.1I
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their respective places of worship, al a
hard a gallon as his legs would carry him
1T was thought in the village that
was a little daft, and the girls did not
care to receive the attentions Of suitor
who was more or less looked down upon
and ridiculed by local public opinion.
However / did not care. / liked the
lift that comes from running. and like It
to this day"
But from the stress Of his love affair
with the Doctors sister (who was en-
eaged TO a man of her own age at the
time he won great literary training, for
when she departed from him ne wrote hey
enormous letters three times a week, and
he says concerning these: 81 advise
young people who come TO me now and
ask me what would be the hes; school in
which to learn 10 write well TO fall IN
love with a clever woman a dozen years
older than themselves who lives at a dis
lance from them and with whom they
can communicate only by writing
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-12-07
MoULDER OF PUBLIC OPINION

Stead's work as a journalist, moulder
Of public opinion, martyr to the vice
crusade which resulted in a prison sen
tence for him in spite of the great work
that he accomplished, Is all given in his
daughters writings. But her treatment Of
the mystical and occult forces which she
claims had so great an influence upon
her fathers life is startling, in spite Of
the late Mr.. Steads known activity in
spiritual circles.
In 1881 he had his first seance. 1t was
preceded by premontions. The first OF
them. which came. we are told. with UNI
mistakable force, had to do with a change
Of his own career, and he prophesied 10
his family concerning his future editor
ship Of a London neWspaper-"The Pail
Mall GaZette"-with which he later allied
himself. At the time OF his statement he
knew nothing of any opening on THE Ca
zette," which, however, came to him in
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the departments. the Cabinet officers
down. the most striking feature Of the
administration was the devoted, Jealous
and efficient work that was done as soon
as Il became understood that the one
bond OF interest among all OF us was the
desire to make the government the most
effective instrument in advancing the In
terests of the people as a whole. the In
terests OF the average men and women OF
the United States and of their children.
/ do not think ! overstate the case when
/ say that most OF the men who did the
best work under me felt that ours was a
partnership, that We all stood on the
same level OF purpose and service, and
that il mattered not what position any
one of us held so long as in that position
he gave the very best that was In him.
THE TENNIS CABINET.
We worked very hard, but ] made a
point OF getting couple OF hours oil
each day for equally vigorous play. The
men with whom | then played, whom We
laughingly grew 10 call the Tennis cab
met" have been mentioned I'm a previous
CndPter III C9nHection WIN tue Bllt theS
gave me at the last breakfast which they
took at the White House. There were
many others I'm the public service under
me with whom ! happened not to play,
but who did their share of our common
work just as effectively as 1t was done by
us who did plays OF course. nothing could
have been done in my administration II
1t had not been for the zeal, intelligence,
masterful ability and downright hard la
Dor OF these men In countless positions
under me. | was helpless to do anything
except as my thoughts and orders were
translated into action by them; and,
moreover, each of them, as he grew spe-
cially fit for his job. used to suggest TO
me the right thought to have, and the
right order to give, concerning that job.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-12-07
PRAISE FROM MR.. BRYCE.

At the end of my administration Mr..
Bryce the British Ambassador. told me
that In a long life, during which he had
studied intimately the government OF
many different countries, he had never
in any country seen a more eager. high
minded and efficient set of public SER
wants, men more useful and more cred
liable to their country than the men then
doing the work of the American govern
ment In Washington and In the field. 1
repeat this statement with the permission
OF Mr.. Bryce.
At about the same time, or a little be-
fore, in the spring OF 1905. there appeared
In the English "Fortnightly Review" an
article. evidently by a competent eye
witness. setting forth more in detail the
same views to which the British Ambas-
sador thus privately gave expression. 1t
was in part as follows:
"Mr Roosevelt has gathered around him
a body OF public servants who are no
where surpassed. | question whether they
are anywhere edualled. for efficiency self
sacrifice and an absolute devotion to their
countrys interests. Many of them are
poor men, without private means. who
have voluntarily abandoned high profess
sional ambitions and turned their backs
on the rewards of business to serve their
country on salaries that are not merely
inadequate. but indecentIy so. There is
not one of them who Is not constantly
assailed by offers OF positions in the
world of commerce. finance and the law
that would satisfy every material ambi-
ton with which he began life. There Is
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-12-07
THE UNCONSCIOUS PERSONALITY

THE theory OF these researchers is that
besides the body and the mind. meaning
by the mind the Conscious Personality.
there Is also wlthin our material frame
tie soul OF Unconscious Personality, the
nature OF which is shrouded in unfath-
enable mystery. The latest work Of ad
vanced science has thus landed US back
In the apostolic assertion that man is
composed of body. soul and spirit and
there are some who see in the scientific
doctrine of Unconscious Personality a
welcome confirmation from an unex-
pected quarter OF the existence OF the
soul" The greatest gain" he continues.
that is likely TO accrue from the study
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-12-07
HIS ELIzABETHAN AMOUR.

Stead's boyhood was of nature which
might lead one TO believe that he would
hold commerce with ghosts before he died.
At the tender age of five he had his first
love affair. the object of his affection be-
ing no less august a parsonage than
Queen Elizabeth herself stead fell I'm
love with Queen Elizabeth and felt about
her, he says. exactly as anybody feels
about a woman with whom he is in love
that is 10 say, so he explains. he was
greatly interested in hearing everything
about her that he could; he believed that
she was peerless. above all women, thought
of her enemies as creatures who should
De exterminated, and eXulted in the be-
heading of Mary Queen of Scots.
II could not deny that Mary was bet
ter looking than Queen Elizabeth he In
forms us through his daughters quota
ton from his account Of this youthful
amour. but 1 think ] felt that woman
who could be more beautiful than My
ideal Love deserved beheading."
From five the future journalist had love
affairs right along.
They were exceedingly numerous. In
his "reminiscences ne says that while he
has not mentioned all of them, one OF the
most useful of them all was that In
spIred by the sister OF the village doctor
who came 10 STAY with his family.