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tallx to the readers o. the.
Era freersthis special space,
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The realms of the best markets
have been ransacked for the in-
dividual tastes - of the people of
this 1 icinity. .
Good Goods
Plenty. of them
Low Prices
All that is new, novel and appro-
priate, will be found in our desir-
able selections. of
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And our topic will be
Fancy
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Something for:ev
per.bnt,
Sotncthir g for eve
purse.
We have sufficient
variety to insure an'easy
selection.
Prices are so low
that everyone can have
a Christmas Holiday,
if they trade with us
CO_ Clc,ImTO.
A GOSPEL DEBATE.
MOOSE DEFINES WHAT IS MEANT
'BY AN UNPARDONAALE SIN.
The Tergiversations of Prof. Swinegoober,
'With Particular Reference to Yank
7.ampkins' Shoats ---Likewise Something
About a Sorghum Mill and a Roan Mare.
The farmers of Marshall county, Ky.,
take a great deal of interest in religion.
They get together at public workings
end discuss in every imaginable form
ilbbat they consider the knotty portions of
the Bible. With the exception of the
newspapers, their reading is confined ex-
eleeively to the Bible.
The primitive Baptists, or "Hard-
Sholle," as they are called, prevail in
great numbers. As a general rule. Mese
Veople agree upon the main princitiles of
the Church, but there are a great many
Minor points in regard to various pas-
sages of the Bible that they utterly fail
to agree upon. It is this existing state
of affairs that brings about many discus-
sions, whioh are carried on in the school
houses, churches and other public places.
If any one gets mad during the discus-
sion of a given point it is considered as
evidence that he is beaten ; but,as a gener-
al rule, the best of fooling prevails.
I had the pleasure of hearing a disous-
mion of this charagtor not long since, at a
place oalled Pew Flat School House.
There was quite a crowd present, and
when I arrived, the first speaker, whose
MosesL had the floor
stop and listen ; then they would start
off as though they were going to the call
of some one who had been feeding them.
"All at once they plunged over the hill,
then down into the hollow where they
went straight into a rail pen that had
boon butt for the occasion. The gap was
closed after them, and -Prof. Swine -
goober, our school teacher, threw over
' some corn, and, looking over the fence
said: ' Now. my bright little E@vino pets;
you are in prison again and yoli will
have to get an extra hump on you if you
get out the second time.' Thon he pink-
ed up a bucket of what proved next day
in Squire Nimrod's court to be°some sort
of dye or paint; from this he had taken
a brush and proceeded to give what prov-
ed to bo Yank's shoats a fresh coat of
paint.
"By this time Yank seen through the
whole game, I know, for he stooped down
and picked up a rook about the si ze of a
washtub, and had it not been for my
timely interference, he would have swip-
ed Prof. Swinegoober's light out there
and then, but ho finally concluded to let
Squire Nimrod deal with him acoording
to the law of Kentucky. The trial, which
came off the next day in Yank's barn,
showed that it was Prof. Swtnegoober's
intention to dye the shoat's hair, so that
he could carry them off without sus-
picion, sell them, and, in all probability,
spend the money in riotoug living.
This, I say, was all proved beyond the
merest existing shadow of a doubt, and
he was accordingly offered a lucrative
position in the State Pon,which ho, after
some useless hesitation, decided to accept.
name was utas, "The morning Prof. Swinogoober loft
Hapicked up a Bible about the size of a for his now abode I was the only man
trunk, and laid it upon a barrel in front 'that-weald shako handswithhim, and
of him; then he stuck both of his thumbs bid him godspeed; and after he got there
in the armholes of his vest, and said: I was the only man that would write to
"Mr. Chairman—I am called upon to him and tell him how sorry I was for
give my views in regards to this un- 'him, and when be got sick I was the
pprdonablo sin what the Bible speaks only man that would go to see him.
about, and in order that you all may ': After ho bad served about four years of
understand what it says, I'll read it be -his time I circulated a petition for his
fore going any further. " Ho then open- 'I pardon, and was the only man to sign it.
ed the Bible and read tho following pas- This all may scent very strange, but
sage : "All manner of sin shall be for- ,•uniehow or other I felt as though he had
t ven the sons of man, except the sin
• ainst the Holy Ghost, and that hath
n ver forgiveness in this world nor in the
world to come."
‘"Now, then, my friends," continued
the speaker, "this language was used by
Christ, and they say it teaches that a fel-
low can commit an unpardonable sin.
Just what shape this sin has got to be
got up in, or just what sort of a row it
would stir up in a neighborhood when
committed, I am unable to say; of
course, a fellow can do a groat many
things that don't look very had in a
general way, but when you come to ex-
amine them from a scientific standpoint
stolen Yank's hogs in the sudden heat of
passion ; therefore, I looked forward to the
day of his liberation with some little
degree of pleasure, but I didn't have long
to wait, for one day the train rolled into
Calvert City and Prof. Swinegoober was
on 1t, nud I was the only man to meet
him at the station and woloome him back
to liberty. When ho said something one
day afterwards about another start in
the world, I gave him enough scads 10
buy a sorghum mill. Six months passed
and Prof. Swinegoober made molasses,
and said nothing that would lead mo to
think that he was going to pay me back;
but on the contrary, he came to me one
It will appear upon the face of the in- day, and says: 'I say, Mose, you're my
vestigatton that they contain some large, friend yet, ain't you?'
black chunks of dismal sin that is, so far Yob' says L
as I am concerned, now and forever un- " 'Well,' says he, 'I want you to do me
pardonable. Now, let the Holy Ghost another favor; you won't mind doing it,
be what it may, but while along the will you?'
line of the sin against the holy Ghost, I ' 'Nopo,' says I 'Mr. Swinegoober, I
am reminded of the time Yank Llliop- will do what I can to help you turn a
kius, 13111f shank.; and my ;elf were new leaf.'
trustees of the Pow Flat s h' l 1)i.:trict. " 'All right,' says he. Now, what I
Wo were at Nip Van. \Vinker's ono clay,
helping him stack his wheat. when a
fellow with a satchel in his hand name
up and wanted us to hire him to teach
the fall school. We had the rise of 1140 in
free school money, and for this sum Prof.
Swinegoober, for that was his nanie,
agreed to teach our youngsters for the
specified term of three months. Tho fol-
low had on gond duds, could talk in two
or throe different directions, and was
peart a heap in figures; so we made up
our minds to have him set in the 1st of
August and teach the sohool.
"Well, everything went on tolerably
smooth; in fact, Swinegoober taught a
good school, anti the little chaps learned
mighty peart. One day Yank came over
to my house, and says he:
;--:" 'Meso, has you seen anything of my
two black shoats a -running round your
place lately?'
No,' say I,'Yank, I hasn't seen 'em.'
"Then Yank said something about as
bow he didn't see what had become of
them, and went off home. That night
being Sunday night, I wont over to ohat
with Yank for a few hours, and, while
we were out at the lot doing up the night
work, there came up to the fence two
sandy -haired shoats and grunted around
as though they were used to being , fed
there every day. They had a orop,off the
right ear and a swallow fork and under -
bit on the left, which was a hog ;mark
that had been in Lumkins' family so
long that everybody knew it. Of course,
Yank knew that the mark corresponded
with his hog mark, but they had sandy
hair, while bis hogs wore blank hair al-
together. Just about this time wo hoard
some one calling hogs away over In Pole
Cat Holier, about a mile away. Tho
shoats stuck their ears saraight upand
made a boo lino in the direction of the
dulling, and Yank and I followed close
behind them, for we were anxious to
know who they belonged to. The shoats
would run awhile and , in they would
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If that Hat
or Bonnet
Is not bought yet, come and see what we
can do for you. We made si?ecial efforts
this season to show the most origin. 1 and
artistic shapes iu Hats and Bonnets, the,
same as those shown in the great centres of
fashion. That our efforts have been appre-
ciated is shown by the volume of business
this department has already done. Last
week a shipment of shapes and trimmings
replaced lines sold out, and the stock is still
complete, giving ample variety for choice
It would, not do to close this advertisement
without reminding you of the three lines of
ready trimmed hats at $2, $2.50, $3 They
have only been on the market a few weeks,
but they're already famous. The hest, the
nattiest, the most s,3lish hats ever sold for
the money. •
TM Art of Couver.+:.;..--_.
Do not nine at brilliancy. Your gems
of thought will bo lost upon the multi-
tude, and those who can appreciate your
bright sayings will be envious because
they were not of their own coinage.
To be accounted eloquent, use your
ears rather than your tongue.
When somebody tells a funny story, do
not let him know that you have heard if,
before, nor rob hien of hismcod of ltt(igh-
ter by capping it with a better one
It is judicious to interlard your talk,
if talk you must, with such expressions
as "as you say," and " as you have often
remarked." The person addressed will
accept them as a deserved tribute to his
intellect, even though he never said or
even thought the expressions in question
In all his life.
If you happen to be with a person who
prides himself on his correct pronuncia-
tion, take occasion to mispronounce a
word now and again, in order that he may
have the pleasure of correcting you.
I Do not all the time be thinking what
to say. Success as a conversationalist
consists in thinking what not to say.
Do not nslc too many questions. You
may ask some that your interlocutor can-
not answer, and he will not love you.
If A makes a statement which you
know to be erroneous, do not correct
him, but corroborate it. Then when I;
comes forward with the correction, he
will feel friendly toward you • as to one
open to his instructions, while between
you and A. there will be the sympathy
which unites those in misfortune. —Boston
Transcript.
$iii-tinetive Dread.
Prof. Lalnbros:' maintains that the
knowledge of a criminal physiognomic
typo is often instinctive among the coin•
mon people. There are persons, especi-
ally women, who are far from suS;.ccting
even the existence of criminal anthropo-
logy, and who yet, at the sight of those
who bear criminal charactet.sties, instant•
ly experience a lively repulsion and know
they are In the presence of a malefactor
He was acquainted with a lady whose life
was quite withdrawn from society, who
on two occasions discovered the criminal
character of certain young people, not be-
fore suspected, but afterwards detected by
the police. At his request, schoolmasters
have shown to forty young earls twenty
portraits of thieves and twenty of groat
mon. Four-fifths of these children recog-
nized the first as wretched creatures or as
scoundrels, and the second as honest men.
The universal, though involuntary, con-
sciousness of the existence of a physiog-
nomy peculiar to criminals has—given
birth to the expressions "a thief's face,"
"the look of an assassin," etc. How is
this universal consciousness to be explain-
ed? In young girls there is certainly no
knowledge acquired by experience. The
vulgar explanation is that there is an in•
tultivo sense. •Lamhr o holds that the
phenomenon Is homy. Tho impres-
sion loft us by our fathers and transmit-
ted to our children has become unconscious
knowledge, like that of the little birds
1 born and reared in our houses, whioh
strike their wings and beaks in fright
against their cages when they see passing
over tbom birds of prey known only to
their ancestors.
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Less than five weeks
till Christmas. Watch
for Holiday announce-
ment next week •
want you to do Is to lend mo enough
money to get married on, for I feel like
the influence of a good wife would help
me to forgot tho past, and improve the
future.'
"Yes, I tont him all I bad, 450, and
that night, while I was dretarting about
what a good, kind -hearts d Christian cuss
I was, ho stole my old roan snare and
skipped the country. Iran that day
until this I have never seen hair nor hide
of• Swlnegcober; still folks ask mo if I
ever seen anything that looked like an
unpardonahlo sin." The speaker then
took his seat. -Globo Democrat.
BY EXPRESS C.O.D.
Ono Way to Secure Buck Salary From an
Assigned Employer
A man who is compelled to pay his
just debts even through trickery, has no
recourse at law in many cases. This is
amply demonstrated by the following lit-
tle story which is not two days old.
A young New Yorker was clerking for
a cigar dealer doing business within a
few blocks of the post -office. The dealer
assigned and beat his employe out of i17.
This happened about three months ago.
The employe went back to New York
and devised a plan to get paid. He
scoured a large-sized cigar box, filled it
with shavings, on top of which he laid
]ria recolpted bill for $7, pine 61 for his
trouble. Thon he made a nice package
which he gent C. 6. D. to his old em-
ployer who had resumed business. The
latter thinking that the box was filled
with an extra fine brand of oigart paid
the E8 and now he swears that it is the
worst triok ever played on him.
Ho will not swear out a warrant, how-
ever, against the clerk, who had given a
fictitious name to tho express company
to avoid suspicion.
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It's all right
This Mantle stock
of ours. Each dealer's hand a mantle pass-
es through adds something to its cost. For
this reason we pass all middlemen and
buy our mantles direct from the manufac
Curers in Germany
The mantle business we have done this sea-
son has proved to us the advantage of
doing this
night
Fight
Right
(Right
in Style,
in Materials,
in Price,
in Fit.
If you want anything in Mantles, you'll not
regret inspecting our stock, and it would be
well to do it soon, for each week as it pass.
es, leaves the assortment smaller. We're
selling new mantles for less money than
others are asking for last season's styles.
HOI)GENS Bios
CLINTQN
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AGED 13 AND A PREACHER.
A I4' underfnl Boy -Evangelist Who big fest
11511 y C•011%t l•tt.
During a remarkable series of reyival
meetings hold at Pertlo Sprilrgs, near
Warrensburg, Mo., this summer, n lad of
thirteen years was the central figure.
He was Master Ray York, the boy re-
vivalist, who has been regularly licensed
to preach by the First Baptist Churoh.of
Warrensburg and is one of the moat sue"
Gemini Christian workers in the state.
He was converted at the age of six in the
Baptist Sunday -school, and since Its
time has evinced deep and earnest 'aortal
in religion, coupled with an astonipblfla
maturity -of thought and command of
language. On Nov. 97, 1898, P -v formai•
ly united with the Church, aI- dime that
time has been active in evengelistio work.
On Feb. 9, 1894, when not gaito OW810►
years of age, he preached his first eerma%
«hioh electrified his audienoe, and which
was, Ray says, as much a surprise to hilt
as to his friends. During last summele!ie
school vacation he did a good deal of gOM
pet work under the dlreotion of his pastor,
and in the fail assisted the
Kirkland in a series of revives!
at St. Joeeph, Mo. 'Kir
nonnoed the boy the b helper he e
bad. The lad is a bard a dent and as
es he finishes his high school oonree h
will attend a theological seminary.
is slightly built and weighs only abo
seventy-five pounds. He still wears kn
breeches and a broad boy's Dollar. He b
brown hair and eyes. His voice retal
ice ohildtah treble, but is clear and str-
His manner is simple, earnest and imp
sive. In his work at Pertle Springs
gifted youth will be assisted by anot
distinguished boy preacher, the Rev.
F. Leake, aged seventeen years, p o
the First Baptist Chnroh of Mo t 0
mel, Ill., the youngest regularl da1r
pester in the United States.
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We Had Scruples Against Actors. to
An English operatic company whose
members returned to London after a
tour in Scotland had a curious experience
in one of the inland towns where a per-
formance was given. It was one of those
places where, among curtain classes, the
animus against theaters is almost as great
as the consumption of whisky. As it was
the teat halt in the tour the members of
the troupe agreed to have themselves
photographed, and accordingly went to the
local photographer and explained their in-
tention. "Verra wool," replied the Scotch -
man, "I shall be varra glad to take yer
portrets, for ye seem a donee and respect-
able set o' leddles and gentlemen." "And
its we are artists," suggested the principal
tenor, "and there are a lot of us, perhaps
you would see no objection to making
some reduction from your neual prima?"
"Ertiste, are ye?" said the photographer;
"I drone ken what that may be, blit what
due ye dee, may I speer?"
"0," answerd the tenor, who fortunate-
ly understood the Scotch language, "we
aro singers." "In the kirk?" querreplied
ed! the
camera manipulator. "0, no,"ep
theother, "we are the opera oompany who
are performing at the theater." The
Sootchman took a step backward, raised
his arms into the air, and oriel, "Awa
wi' ye, awa wi' ye; ye are the deevil'ee
ART AND LITERATURE IN CANADA.
There are cynics who say that there is
no public opinion in Canada, no literature.
At a dinner given recently by the publishers
of Toronto to Mr. Hall Caine, the great
novelist, this question was discussed, and
a leading publisher remarked that litera-
ture would never make rapid advance in
this country because it is difficult to induce
Canadians to read the works of a Cana-
dian author. This statement, however, is
not true with regard to Toronto Saturday
Night, which has as large a circulation as
any newspaper of its class in America. Its
Christmas Number, which will be issued
Dec. 1, is the eighth in a series of art num-
bers. It will be accompanied this year by
five splendid colored supplements ; the
largest, a reproduction of a painting by a
Canadian artist, done specially for Saturday
Night, is 24 X33 inches in size. Its title th
" Champlain the Explorer," and depicts
him and a flotilla of war canoes entering.
the mouth of a river on Lake Huron. The
picture has been praised by the Historical
Association as the most interesting and ,
artistic attempt ever made to carry us
hack to the old days when Canada was
little more than a geographical term. The .
other four pictures are done in sixteen
colors, and the book itself, consisting of
over forty pages, contains the four prize --
stories in the Saturday Night competition.
Following is a list of contents
1st prize, "A Reconnaissance at Fort Ellice," by
William Bleasdcll Cameron. Illustrations by J. C
Innes.
and prize, " Bob Shwey's Ruby," by W. A. Fraser.
Illustrations fromhotographs.
3rd prize, "A Matter of Necessity,', by John Mc.
Crae. Illustrations by F. M. Bell -Smith, R.C.A.
4th prize, " Widow Molony," by J. C. Innes. Illus.
tration, by the author. °
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"Jim Lancey's Pass," by E. E. Sheppard. Illus.
traced.
From the Sublime," by Warren H. Warren
Illustrations by G. A. Reid, R.C.A.
" Nanton's Sister," by Alice Ashworth. Illustrated.
" Ilendershott off Strathgannon by Joe Clerk.'
Illustrations by Carl Ahrens, A.R.d.A., and Beatrice
Sullivan.
"So -Long," an etching by "Don."
"flawkics Dream," (poem), by Alexander Mo.
Lachlan.
The Love of the World Detected," (poem), by
William Cowper. Illustrations by J. W. Bengpug h.
"Life of Champlain," by George Stewart, M:A.,
D.C.L.
' As a Little Child, ..'(poem), by Evelyn Durand.
"A Song," (poem), by Gertrude Bart ett.
The price of the number, post aid to any
address, in a pasteboard tube t protect it
from damage in the mails, is g cents, and
in point of literary excellence and, the
quantity and quality of the suplethe'n'
far exceeds anything offered by ford
holiday publications. Mr. James Li Hug
Inspector of Schools for Toronto, has
that the Champlain picture should be fru
and hung in " every schoolroom in Cana,.: , .
bairns, yo are; and I wadna photograph and schoolteachers everywhere shptnl4
ye for northing—I mean for on lin ye take an interest in bringing it before !tiro `..
g public. Teachers and young people Crim l..
wad offer me; no, not tor a the money ye do a good work bysending for a Chrtsftria
tak In a week for pia yo Satantg antics Numer of Saturday Night, and a b4ttet'�'
on the brods. Enface ye ea' Forge's I Ye
are the children of the &evil, ye aro i" And work by acting as agent for it and ind�fiain¢°
their neighbors to send for it as we 1, ,_Ai
ho ordered them out, and reasonshut his door liberal commission is allowed. Address
against them. This is the tepos why no theSheppard PublishingComprtny, Lithlted,.
authentic photograph of that opera troupe
Adelaide Street west, Toronto. The .thee
will be handed down to posterity, for die- of the regular edition of Saturday d' ignt't'
day the tour ended, and the members els- which undoubtedly stands alone = Canna
permed to their homes. da's most interesting and thorough high,,
" . • class illustrated weekly, is $2 per - r. -