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VOL. VI.
ELKIN, N. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1898.
NO. 17
NEW GOODS
FOR
Spring* Trade
DRY GOODS.
We now have in store by far tJie most magnificent stock of
DRY GOODS it has ever been onr pleasure to show. OVER
ELEYEN HUNDRED liOLTS of New Goods embracing all the
Stajjle as well as Fine and Fancy Dress Goads. We mention es
pecially the All-Wool Albatross at 40c. yard. Beautiful Imported
Organdies at 30c., and sold nowhere under 35c. Also a cheaper,
but very attractive Organdie at 16§c yard. Beautiful Trimming
Silks, Hamburg and Swiss En'broideries, Laces, Braids and Bind
ings. Have taken advantage of the extremely low price of Cotton
Goods to lay in an iinmenso stock and guarantee satisfaction to all
customers.
NOTIONS.
When convenient come in and look over our Notion Stock. With
years of experience and buying in large quantities for cash, we secure
many astonishing bargains in little things that small dealers gener
ally pay two and throe prices for. We have a leader all elastic
Suspender at 8c. The best Oil Cloth, 15c. Good Hose from 5c.
pair np. Beautiful Lace Trimmed Children’s Caps, ‘25c., 85c. to 50.
Men’s and Boys White and Colored Dress Shirts and Overshirts in
great variety of styles and prices to suit every one. Ladies’ Belts
and Silk Mitts. Handkerchiefs in abundance. Window Shades,
White Quilts, Fancy Bugs, and thousands of useful little things
always the best for the money 1:0 bo found.
HATS AND CAPS.
Enough Hats for a Hat Store, and the biggest values ever
shown. A Good Fur Hat for 75c. worth over a dollar. We are
selling Si.25 Hats for §1.00 and so on through the whole line. The
largest stock, greatest variety of styles, biggest values and the cream
ot the market in every sense. Bought for Cash from first hands,
admit of no competition.
SHOES.
OUR SHOE STOCK is the especial pride of onr establish
ment. Years of experience during which time we liave handled
thousands of dollars worth of Shoes have convinced us, that lacking
quality no shoe is cheap. We buy the best goods we can get and
discard all cheap stuff and go for value. We cannot recommend
a poor shoe, so we accordingly shun them. Nowhere can you find
a better and more attractive stock than we have now in store.
Beginning with the ELKIN SHOES we have almost every
Btyle of Men’s, Boys, Women’s and Children’s sizes in Black, Tans,
Ox Bloods and Chocolates from good to best. Beautiful stock of
Ladies Ties and Slippers Full line of Mundell’s famous Shoes for
Children. We have tiic new styles in Silk Clotli Tops in Men’s,
Ladies and Children’s Shoes, both black and tan. Th,ese are very
attractive. We invite you to call and examine stock.
GROCERIES
This is after all the BIG DEPAETMEN-T and the place where
the cash and big purchasers rule the day. We do more business in
Groceries than any* other line. We buy this, stock in JOBBING
QUANTITIES and this means everything when it comes to prices.
A few recent arrivals are 60 Bags Green Cofl'ee, 12 cases Roasted
Oofifees, 25 cases Celluloid Starch, 16 cases Potash and Lye, 25
cases Soap, 25 cases Good Luck Baking Powder, 25 Barrels White
Fish, 25 Boxes Chewing Tobacco, 20 cases Essence for Coffee, 30
Boxes Cakes and Crackers, 25 cases Axle Grease, 10 cases Sardines,
250 Bags Salt, and many more.
Try our Red Seal Roasted Coffee at 10c., or 4 for 85c. Green
Coffejs, 8c. to 12ic. A good thing is Boston Baked Beans and
Sauce at 12 Jc. can. Nice Queen Olives, 35c- Arbuckle’s Roasted
Coffee leads all, at 12c., or 4 for 45c Canned Corn, Oysters, To
matoes, Beans, Pineapple, &c., at lowest prices- The best Cheese,
Oatmeal, Prunes, and California Evaporated Peaches in town.
HARDWARE.
We are making many additions to our HARDWARE Stock
and will soon show you a magnificent line consisting of Cut and
Wire Nails, Steel Plows, Single and Double Stocks, Dixie Plows
and Castings, South Bend Cliilled Plows and Findings, Handled
Hoes, Shovels, Spades, Forks, Saws, Hammers, Hames, Trace
Chains, Lanters, Coffee Mills, Cobbler’s Iron and Shoe Nails, Poul
try Wire, and an excellent line of Shelf Hardware, Cutlery, &c.
We guarantee prices on all this stock as low as the lowest.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Trunks, Valises, Sole Leather, Tinware, Spices, Drugs, Oils,
Glassware, Crockery, Stationery, Paper Bags and Wrapping Papers
make up tlje Miscellaneous Line, and is quite an important depart
ment, and we solicit your inquiries when in need of any of these.
Country Produce.
We want all the good COUNTRY PRODUCE we can get
and are in position to pay highest market prices.
Very truly,
CLICK & CO.,
L. H. Hunt, \ g
DB, j
Salesmen
0. S. Woods,
Oi.ivEB -Moobb, Porter.
Cor. Main and Bridge Sts.,
ELKIN, N. C
THE K. OF P, mmi
On Thursday night, Feb. 10th,
Piedmont Lodge, No 96, Knight
of Pythias gave a banquet which
was thoroughly enjoyed by all
present.
The Lodge met at 7 o’clock
for work, which was finished by
8 o’clock, and then the members
adjourned in a body to the Elk
Inn where quite a member of in
vited guests had assf. mblcd ; the
Kni^its were robed in full Rega
lia, and presented quite a hand
some appearance, and made the
gentlemen present who were not
Knights deterniine at once to be
come members of K of P. just
as soon as possible.
After listening for some time
to some excellent music, render
ed by the Elkin Cornet Band,
which furnished music for the oc
casion, the company repaired to
the dining room and partook of
a repast which did credit to the
proprietor of the Elk Inn, Mr. 0.
H. Gwyn, who knows so well
how to prepare nice things for
such an occasion. The repast
was the more enjoyed because of
the presence of three beautiful
young ladies. Miss Margaret Car
son, and Misses Grace and Kate
Gwyn, who waited upon the ta
bles so gracefully and efficiently,
while the band discoursed sweet
music out upon the veranda.
The supper was followed by
addresses from the following
gentlemen:
Messrs. Walter B. Bell, J. F.
Hendren, J. S. Bell and Rev. F.
L. Townsend.
ADDKKSS BY J. S. BELL, II. G. 0.
Ladies, ' Gentlemen’ and
’htETkii-.iix’.—I aiA no orator anS
public speaking is not myvcalliny,
but the Committee of Ari'ange-
ments saw proper to place me on
the list, and I have made it one
of the rules of my life to try to
perform every duty lo which I
was called to the best of my abil
ity. It is a pleasure to me to greet
yon all around this festal board
as a Pythian Knight. As you all
well know, there are many secret
orders and organizations through
out the world, whose members
are bonded to each other in va
rious ways and manners.
As far back as 380 B. C., most
ot the best and noblest Greeks
held what was called the Pytha
gorean philosophy. This was
one of the many systems fiamed
by the great men of heathenism,
when they were, as St. Paul says,
“Seeking after God, if haply they
might feel after Him, like men
groping in darkness.” Pythago
ras, an eminent Greek teacher
and scholar, lived before the time
of history, and almost nothing is
known of him, though his teach
ing and name were never lost.
From his teachings were formed
what was known as the Pythago
rean Sect, an order who were
bound together in a brotherhood,
the members of which had rules
that are not understood outside.
Two friends of this Pythagorean
sect lived at Syracuse in the end
of the Fourth Century before the
Christian Era. Syracuse was a
great Greek city built in Sicily,
and full of all kinds of Greek
Art and learning, but it was a
place of danger in their time, for
it had fallen under the tyranny
and dominion of a man named
Dyonisius.
Those two friends, Damon and
Pythias by name, were so closely
allied to each other by the bond
of friendship, that they stood
ready to defend each other even
unto death.
Pythias by some means incurr
ed the displeasure of the tyrant
Dyonisius, who lost no time in
condemning him to death accord
ing to the usual fate of those who
fell under his suspicion. Pythias
had lands and relatives in Greece
and he entreated as a favor to be
allowed to return thither and ar
range his affairs, engaging to re
turn in a specified time to suffer
death. The tyrant laughed his
request to scorn. Once safe out of
Sicily, who would answer for his
return?
Damon came forward and of-
fored to become surety for his
friend, engaging that if Pythias
did not retnrn according topronj-
ise he would suffer death in his
stead.
Dyonisius much astonished con
sented tc let Pythias go, marvel
ling what would be the issue of the
affair. Time went on and Pytli—
las did not appear. The Syracu
sans watched Daman, but he
showed no uneasiness. He said
he was secure of his friends truth
and honor, and that if any acci
dent had caused the (\clay of his
return, he should re,.; to die,
to save, the lit'e dear to
him. Even to the ?!;¥L^daY, Da
mon continued serene and con
tent, nay, even when the very
hour drew nigh, and still no Pyth
ias. His trust was to perfect that
he did not even grieve at having
to die for a faithless friend who
had left him to the fate to which
he had unwarily pledged himself.
It was not Pythias’ own will, but
the winds and waves, he declared,
when the decree was brought and
the instruments 'of death made
ready. The hour had come, and
a few minutes more would have
ended Damons life, when Pyth
ias duly presented himself, em
braced his friend, and stood for
ward himself to receive his sen
tence, calm, resolute, and rejoiccd
that he had come in time. Even
the dim hope they owned of a
future state, was enous'h to maka
these two brave men keep their
word and confront death without
quailing. Dyonisius looked on
more struck than ever, lie felt
that neither of such men must
die. He reversed the sentence
of Pythias, and calling the two to
his judgement seat; he entreated
them to admit him as a third in
their friendship. The order of
Knights of Pythias received its
inspiration from these two illus
trious Syracusans, and while it is
yet a young order, being founded
in 1863 in the city of Washington,
yet it today has its councils in
every rtate in the Union, also in
the Haiwaian Islands, Canada
and Mexico, numbering npvvards
of Fivei hundred iin.i’t^ud mem
bers. ^ ^
Friendship is the Jeal that
binds this vast body of men into
one grand and glorious Brother
hood, and like the little rill that
has its source high on the moun
tain top, small and weak at first,
yet as it flows along it gathers
strength by the way, and becomes
after awhile a vast river and
mingles it waters with the great
ocean, so may we go on with the
great work we have undertaken;
using the talismanic words of
Friendship, Charity and Benev
olence, as uur guide and watch
word until the Great Grand
Chancellor above shall call us to
our Eternal Home.
ADDRESS BY KEY. F. L. TOWNSEND.
Bkothek Pythians, Ladies and
Gentlemen:—Far away in the
east, is the island of Sicily, ly
ing in the midst of the Mediter
ranean Sea, about midway be
tween rocks of Gibralta and the
island of Cyprus. In this island
underneath such skies as over
arch the lovely -peninsula of
Italy is the city of Syracuse. Here
many centuries ago, was display
ed the love of Damon and Py
thias for each other in a beautiful
episode upon,which is founded
our beloved order. What a strik
ing exhibition of brotherly love
was this? It was willingly to
make a sacrifice of life itself for
the good of another. Such love
merits being set to music in the
sweetest strains of the poet.
The human race has produced
other examples of strong friend
ship and of self sacrificing love.
What a sublime example of such
mutual devotion is given in the
case of David and Jonathan! It
is proverbial to speak of strong at
tachments as being like that of
David and Jonathan. Saul, Jon
athan’s father, was David’s
sworn enemy. Yet Jonathan was
David’s stroi’gest and best friend.
In all Saul’s efforts to destroy the
life of David, it is refreshing to
see the affectionate fidelty of Jon
athan to his old friend. And
when David hears of the untime
ly death of Jonathan, it is a
noble tribute he pays to the
strength, purity, and constancy
oi" his friend’s love, when he
pronounces the following eulogy;
“The beauty, ot Isreal is slain
upon thy high places. How are
the mighty fallen ! How. are the
mighty fallen in the midst of
battle ! O Jonathan, thou wast
slain in thine high places! I am
distressed for thee, my brother
Jonathan^ very pleasant hast thou
been unto me; thy love to me
was wonderful, jiassing the love
women. How are the mighty
fallen, and the weapons of war
are perished!”
This is the -Spirit of Pythian-
ism. It is the spirit of unselfish
ness. The true Pythian seeks to
do good to others. He belongs,
to the order, not so much for the
sake of the good he may derive
therefrom, but for the good he
may do his fellows. .Here is op-
^.ned a field for the ^Ixeroises cif
his heaven-'given fa'-ulty of help
fulness. The Master taught this
.truth, set forth by this order,
both by example and by precept.
Aye, he went beyond this, teach
ing a greater and deeper truth,
that we should not only love and
bless and help our brethren, but
that we should love our enemies,
doing good to those who perse
cute us and abuse us.
This spirit of unselfishness is
opposed to the spirit of selfish
ness so prevalent amongst men
of coarser mould. Unselfishness
stands with outstretched arms and
openhanded liberality adminis
tering to the necessities of our fel
lows when in distress.
Selfishness has no eyes to see
the wants of another, no ear to
hear the cry' of another, no heart
to be moved with pity at anoth
er’s woes. There he stands with
blinded eyes, deaf ears, feeling-
less heart, and hooked hands try
ing to draw all the world toward
himself. Look at him !
“Look at the selfish man, see how he locks
Tiglit in his arins his mortgages and stocks!
While deeds and titles in his hand he grasps.
And gold and silver close around him clasps!
But not content with this, behind ho drags
A cart well laden with the ponderous bags;
The orphan’s and the ^Yido^Y’s woe
Fromnit^rcy’s fountain cause no tears to flow
He pours no cordial on the wounds of pain :
l”nlocks no prison, and unclasps no chain ;
His heart is like the rock wheresunnor dew
Can roar one plant or llower of heav'niy hue.
No thought of mercy there may have its birth
For helpless^ misery or sulforing worth.
The end of all his life is paltry pelf,
And all his thoughts are centered on-himself
The wretch of both worlds, for so mean a sum
‘First starved in this, then damned in that
to come*’ ”
The spirit of unselfishness
whi.dr" proj'.ptis sacyi'iticc f'jr the
good of others is the highest form
of life. All life is sustained at
the expense of life. This is seen
in all nature around ns. The
grass dies that the worm may
live. The bird dies that the ea
gle may live.
Last year’s weeds die, and are
reproduced in the harvests of
grain for this year. The grain
dies that the ox, or the lamb may
ive. The lamb is slain that hu
man life may be sustained.
These are involuntary sacrifices
ours must be voluntary sacrifices.
Bishop Marvin was once din
ing at a hotel. Amongst those
around the table was a young
man who had been educated
abroad and who had imbibed
some very skeptical notions. In
a pompons way he said to the
Bishop; “I cannot accept your
religion, I do not believe in it
betianse it teaches that the inno
cent must die in the stead of the
guilty.” Just at this moment he
was about ta take gome mutton
in his mouth. The Bishop said,
“Hold a minute. What are you
eating ?’! He replied, “It is lamb,
and excellent, too.” “There”
said the Bishop, “the innocent
lamb dies that you may live Is
it any more unreasonable that
the Lamb of God should die that
guilty sinners might be saved ?”
It is useless to add that the
youngster was put to silence.
Now from wliat has been said
let us draw some practical lesson.
1. Tlie spirit of Pythianism
shows itself in a practical way in
looking after a brother’s phys’cal
wants. Here we weep with
those who weep and mourn with
those who mourn. Is be hungry?
We must feed him. Is he desti
tute of clothing? Wo must give
him raiment to put on. Is he
sick or in prison? We must vis
it and minister unto him.
2 This spirit shows itself in
attending to a brother’s intellec
tual wants. Few men know their
powers of mind until these pow-.-
are discovered to them by others.
Many among us are like the an
gel hiding away in the sculptor’s
unchiseled rock. Many are like
the flower
“born to blush unseen
And waste its sweetness on the desert air.”
To discover to a tellow—man
his mental possibilities and in
spire in him an ambition to be
his best and do his best, is a
praiseworthy deed, and he who
does it, is his neighbor’s benefac
tor.
3. Again, this spirit is seen
in its practical workings in look
ing after a brother’s moral wants.
Every man feels the great tide
of immoral influences as they bear
hard upon him, threatening to
engulf in the whirl pool of dis
sipation. Right manfully many
a man has fought alone and sin
gle handed against these foes of
darkness. Many a time the sur
ges have pressed him hard and
having almost despaired of victory
he has said “No man cares for
my soul.” Then he needs a broth
er’s sympathy, a brotl sr’s strong
arm about him, vvhilti: a brother’s
cheeful hopeful voico) r'ngc out
above the deafening roar of the
threatening w'aves; “Courage
brother, one more strong, steady
effort and you are safe!”
This being the spirit of Pyth
ianism af seen in its practical
workings, let us sing as we add
tc our ranks ;
Give us men!
Men from every rank,
Fresh, free and frank:
Men of thought and reading,
Men of light and leading,
Men of loyal breeding,
Pythian's welfare speeding;
Men of faith and not of fauiion.
Men of lofty aim and action:
Give us men—I say again,
Give us men!
Give ns men!
Strong and stalwart ones:
Men whom hi£?hest hope inspires.
Men whom purest honor fires,
Meu who trample self heneath them,
Men who make this country wreathe them
As her uoble sons
Worthy of her sires:
Men who never shame their mothers,
Men who never fail their brothers
True, however false are others;
Give us 2nen—I say again,
Give us mezi!
Give us men!
Mon who when the tempest gathers,
Grasp the standards of their brothers
In the thickest of the flglit;
Men who strike for home and altar
(Let the coward cringe and falter,)
God defend the right!
True as truth though lorn and lonely,
Tender, as the brave are oniy:
Men who tread vvhei-e saint.s have trod,
Men for country, home and God:
Give us men- I say again, again,
Give us such men!
Then may all true Pythians
rank af the last with good Dr.
McLure when the Master shall
say, “Inasmuch as ye have done
it unto one of the least of these
my brethren, ye have done it
unto me.”
ADDBESS by WALTER B. BELL.
The assembling here tonight of all
tli6se gallant Knights and beautiful
ladies gives evidence of the popu-
i.’iriiy and acti'.'ity oi rieilniout
Lodge and is a fitting tribute to its
j.iast, its present and its future use
fulness. This evening we assem-
l)led around the festive lioard in
tliis our first banquet of Piedmont
Lodge, No. 00 Knights of Pythias,
Our lodge was organized last July
and in this our first public meeting
let us strive to make it a pleasant
and profitable one for all, No
tlioiightful man will question at
this day the importance and future
of the Knights of Pythias. Born,
Feb’y 19, 1864, on the banks of tfie
grand old Potomac, at the very
seat of government, while the clash
of resounding arms was striking
terror to brave hearts, while ci\'il
war was disturbing our country
from centre to circumference, while
the entire land was shrouded in
gloom and darkness the banner of
Pythianism was unfurled to the
breeze and the unparrelled friend
ship of Damon and Pythias was to
l)e commemorated and honored un
til the end of time. In this dark
hour just after liostilities had
ceased
Men were bidden to nobler strife,
Not to destroy but to rescue liiunan
life,
No added drop in iniserys cup to press,
But minister relief to wretchedness.
Our Pythianism is -a great ami
growing brotherhood dispensing
mutual relief and it has been most
beautifully said “ Tlie jewels that
we garner are the tears we wipe
away and the sorrows we assuage”.
The order is now -in its thirty-
fourth year and marvelous to say
h:is upwards of a half-million mem
bers dotting the Pythian world
over with 7000 lotlges. AYd do
not pretend to say t(hai e are tlie
only ‘‘pebble on the beach” or
that there are no other orders as
good as the Knights of Pythias.
There are others. But the Knights
of Pythias is a good thing.
There is no doubt about that. P.
C. B. -Fresh country butter or
fresh corn bread as some w'ag has
called it is our motto or watch
word. Friendship, Charity and
Benevolence. What a meaning is
wrapped up in these three words.
If we would build on a sure foun
dation in friendship we must love
our friends for their sakes rather
than our own. This is exactly
what Pythianism teaches. Go in
to a home Avhere the black angel
death has craped the door knob
and shrouded the home in a mantle
of despair, where the grim destroyer
whom no man’s hand (-an stay
places his seal upgn the lips of
those we love, those*in the cradle
of infancy, the bloom of youth, the
flush of-manhood or theinaturer old
age, administer to the relief of the
wretched soothe the bed of the
dying, and perform the last sad
rights of the dead. This is one of
the few missions of true friendshii)
of a Pythian Knight. Charity and
Benevolence go hand in hand
looking after the widows and or
phans of deceased brethren, rescue-
ing fallen humanity, scattering
seeds of kindness along the path
way of tlie heartbroken and op
pressed. bearing one anothers bur
dens and at all times doing every
thing in our power as far as our
means will permit for sweet Char
ity’s sake. To sum it all up. Be
Friendly. Be Charitable. Be
Benevolent. And now a wozxl to
the i'oung men pre?enl who are not
members of our order. You are
assending the uplands of life and
the sunlight is in your faces.
Some here tonight are journeying
into the shadows and the roar of
the ultimate river is daily gi'owing
more and more distinct to their
ears. As the ghuliators of old
passed before the imperial benches
and cried ; ■ ‘ Hail Ciesar we who
are about to die, salute you”, so
this generation which is passing
from the scene of human action
gives to you young Americans its
ioyal greeting. We give to you
the honor, the prosperity, the hap
piness of the mightiest of earths
nations. In j'our hands are placed
the greatest heritage of the ages.
Guard it, honor it, protect it,
preserve it and as you value the
happiness of your children and
your children’s children oh! see
that you dissipate it not. Do the
young men and y'Oung ladies of
today appreciate the advantages
they possess? Do they realize the
vast facilities and oppertunities of
this era over those of their parents
Concluded on Second Page.
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