e worthwhile. Lens than one per cent of American men have been college graduates, but this one per cent has furnished— 55 percent of our Presidents 36 percent of our members of Congress. 47 percent of our Speakers of the House. 54 percent of our Vice-Presi dents. 62 percent of our Secretaries of State. 50 percent of our Secretaries of the Treasury. 65 percent of our Attorney Generals. 69 percent of our Supreme Court Justices. The other 99 per cent furnish ed the rest. When you’re point ing out to some boy or girl the exceptions who did carve their way without a college education let the correct statistics have their say. What would your section, your country, he if the one per cent and the 99 were changed around? WHY NOT TRY IT? In Columbia, the South Caro lina capital, a bunch of real estate boosters have organized a Columbia Publicity club with t he intention of selling Columbia to Columbians—it will be an easy task then for Columbians to sell Columbia to "others. A similar selling ^scheme wouldn’t hurt Shelby. In fact, it might hurt—hurt the town in growing. In a pamphlet issued by the club the following mes sage is carried in “What is Pub* licity “Think Columbia— talk Columbia —and— when yon write Columbia ‘IP must be in' it—That’s publicity. “A liO-piece Columbia publicity band—a broadcasting station—That's publicity. * “An annual celebration in the au tumn tb. t will bring 200,000 visitors in n space of 10 days—That’s pub licity. “Park the residence streets and avenues, standardising the blocks to certain classes of flowers—shrubbery so that Autumn and Spring days will find Columbia a flower garden •—so attractive to be nationally known —that’s publicity. “Talk sunshine—blue skies—sand lidge—air drainage—winter homes— tourists— climate —- highways —■ in dustries—small farms. Put past tum bles, cuts and bruises in the cellar and nail the door—That's publicity.” SOMETHING MISSING There are few folk*; in Cleve land county who could have pass od to the great beyond last week and been missed by more p' o pie than the Rev. A. C. Irvin. That is a broad statement. But remember there is not a Baptist church in Cleveland county in which he has not preached, or spoken, 3,000 peo ple were baptized by him; hun dreds converted by his messages and scores married before his presence. He never occupied the pulpits of the first churches of the land. Never did he dream of the $10,000 per year pastorates. He served where others cannot afford to serve, or do not serve any too consistently. And he served not a year, but 50 years. Think of the homes in which .the message of his death was received with sorrow, the peo ple who are missing a real friend. Then add something to the thought: How many folks have you ever heard say anything that was in anyway injurious to the reputation of “Unde Abe” Irvin? Replacing such men is an im possibility. Placing a value on such service to humanity is more impossible still. His worth to the hundreds who knew him will be an unborn expression that will linger on the mind. The ‘-sweetness ho pave life in ah as surance of a still better life is indescriable. He brought■ p< aco in his min istry. He now enjoys his v.urtl. NAUGHTY, YET NICE—NO. There ciroulai..'*1 for a time from various printing presses a readable jumble of fantasy, the appeal of a young girl to ex perience: ‘'How ('an 1 Be Naujrh ty. Yet Be Nice?’’ The reply with it ecfcilaiiied the deserin tivo ways of saying the .wort! "Impossible." Hirla who read that, or girls who have never read it but have pondered over the lure of being naughty and if it would pay, might find a belli.- answer ir: a living example, wall advertised -—Evelyn Nesoit Thaw. Evelyn twenty years ago was the toast of Broadway. An un sophisticated, beauliiil girl from Pennsylvania, the most attrac tive of a beautiful chorus. En \ ied by thousands, applauded nightly by hundreds more. It s dizzy to be the sweetheart of Broadway and the lure gripped Evelyn. !the married the million aiiv, Harry Thaw, then Stanford White stepped in. Thaw killed him and the toast of Broadway became a notorious ch.aract.-r. Tito millionaire husband was placed in an asylum. Evelyn journeyed abroad and returned several years later with a boy. The son of Thaw, she said. Broadway laughed. And the rm,e of Broadway wilted. The notor iety carried her on the stage for a time. Then sin ran a second rate tea room, then on lower to c cabaret dancer, and then as beauty and hope fled, a d > of poison and the hospital. The lips that drew Stanford White to death and sent Thaw to wards where the inmates babble are swollen noVr. The line ly modelled features of the beauty that won America have disappeared now. The years and dissipation saw to that. Broad way’s interest departed quick er than the others—and now. It doesn't pay. Advance in Re-di.scoiiiP Hate Mar Sob. ; < ! 'Speculative Jurkeis, According to 'I hen. I ice. (By R. .1. McCarleyH Private Win' ) New Orleans, lav., Jan It. l.i.ir pool wos line clawn by New Orltinin January t I, March Hi, Mb.1, July 1», October 1.0, By Nine. York: March 11, May I*, July «'•. October 5. Opened 1J points higher'than slue. Compared with lnr.t year, stock < n shipboard at tialve -ton Saturday was 59,000 bales against 00.000; at New Orleans 4(5,000 agairst a 1.00(5; at Houston jo.Ouo. Southern pots Saturday were uti cl'.anKvJ to 18 .dove; Tom markets 15 lower. Sale • all tdd 02,27 k bales against 10.fSTO Friday and lKJjOft iast year. Cables, trade advices, • t ., have to be reckoned wi’h today, perhaps pri vate December eonsumpli »n estimates Census consumption probably on the 14 th. inst., returns likely to lie bullish, will run ngnlnst 54:1,0’‘H) hales ol lint, for November of this season, and oH4 000 for December of hist : e t Sentimeni remninh divided. Theodore O. Price say: Advance to four percent in rediscount rate Now York federal re. ervm hank tnis somewhat sobered speculative mar kets but effect otherwise negligible and general optimism tir-dii-turbed. Higher pricer, far .-train and Co ton generally expected, ut Eton and wbo1 •t» goodr steady, Demand increasing estimated . increase American sugar ctivumpiion last y uv !;5 per cent higher. Prices indicated- of t ea seems high enough. Building boom contin ue.' despite istation _jjn conservatives building' material and metals in good demand. Foreign condition.-. better. Rubber somewhat lower. Think an thracite coal strike nearing settle ment. Money market slightly easier r ltd continued business ac'lvely indi cated unless congressional action or linvestigations cause change of fcl ing. CARD OF THANKS. We wish to thank our friends and neighbors for their kindness shown ns during the sieknes sand death of our dear father. Rev. A. 0. Irvin. Thp Children. Perhaps noise is good for babies, as Brueewell says. Our infant indus tries thrived on the anvil chorus. Still, it is unfortunate that all this ptuiee-eru talk won accept"d too lit erally by Mr. Dempse*. The only thing that can kc p on growing without nourishment is an ego. Prosperous times are those in which the people are too busy to no tice them. DADDY'S EVENING FAIRYTALE ^Mary GKahamfiormer tx-fiy *’cMr ff. tvs.) rptn/nwMPC* y.r'osr LEONARD’S LOST DOG Leonard liud a iovaly do&. Leonard tvaw n i'i*y proud of Ills was lost. She P.illed All She Could. (iirlie had be n nut play inr mid Leonard had hern railed lit the house. (iirlie had hern nil field. Hut alone' ('Unit* :i mother with two children. There was a ih»K. n lovely, 11!it\I'ljt doe, and the doe street ed th in politely, and in a alee, I'rieiidJ'y fashion. • The two rhiidren had always want ed a i "That's a el raj do", moth er,” they said. "I'o h" Ps Lave that dor." * To he Vure the dor wore r.n eol'ar, for Leonard had taken Girlie's collar • if Wheti they had l ei n' plu^iB*. Ar I they urred tiiriie to follow theta. Now (iirlie was ready to play | with oilier children, hut of course these were not children of the neirh liorhood. so \\ hen they came to the end of the Muck (iirlie started to p'o home. lint one of the two .eliililren draspred (iirlie into atl apartment house where j they lived and the other cblitl helped i [mil, loo. Ii was r, dreadful tliltir to do when • iirlie showed !»>' her actions, even • Humph she was without a collar, that ! she was , a .stray dor. Sh^ I no !:ed t is i well-kept, she was ! too happy to he a stray dor j There is a sad, pitiful look In the eyes of every stray ilojf, its thourh iie (vaveil alTeeiioti hut could not he at nil sure v. hat would be his rood j luck or had Itieft. •Oh, l:mv in-sondile »'.'.rile was. Oh, j how w,-etched a nil lom ly ! And s.h»* .vouhln'-t g"t out. The tic:;t nay she was taken for ft walk on a 0‘:is:’i and though she : nulled all she <•<>t:l«] (hose wrelehed two < tdldt'i .1 am* so strong they pulled hoi* lifti-k with them, t And Leonard? Wi ll, If c.irlio was talserhlde If was nothin:; morn than was tin* feeling I Leonard ’aid. He .hot seemed to feel as though'.lie eottld nut stand it. • Hi. the loneliness in anyone's heart when one's pet dog, one's animal com panion, has gone1! It was dreadful. Nor did Leonard | kntvw what had happened to (ilfli*. When he had relumed and found .her gene he had thought she had • taken a run ami would I e buck soon. That first night without (tirlie was pllifully lonely and wretchedly quiet. No friendly hark, no wagging tail, no I watchful eyes, no cold nose stealing quietly into his hand ready for a put. , .lust loneliness loneliness for it de voted dog. | Nor lmd the other nigl ts been any I (tetter. Leonard was so worried, too. ; Ho united iirnuit . (iSr!it*. Kv*t\ on*' j looked for Girlie. Tito ether oliildiVn , llili.1 not I eell out [when Girlie was t»y her,-.elf. Then riune good ; news. ISut I.eun ! «rtl V MS not .'lire ; I h" ilii) not yet lure to he sure, lie I mild not stand he ! tnyr disappointed i >ver %n> i liing like this. lint the man v, ho delivered t lie Just Loneliness. n e \v s p a i> t> r s i brought him fur hotter news Hum,"ns to bs> hail in the j papers he carried. lie said he thougiit 1 lip had heard Girlie's bark and hod caught a glimpse of her as someone hod opened an apartment door when I lie had left the paper that morning, up 1 the block and around the corner. Leonard went off with the man to , the apartment. They did not let ... in. He spoke, ns they opened ! the dot'd1 just a crack. “How do we I know it's your dog?” they said, In reply. liut Girlie had heard Leonard’s voice and was scratching on the door*so that | the door would have been ruined If they had not let Girlie oat. | And no one could say. after having | seen Girlie and Leonard greet one I another, that Girlie was not ' eon;'it's I . 4. *• AW. 4 MOREOVER we want every land county and surrounding se . ^ the section; a furniture house by, Come to.our opening. It will man, woman and child in Cleve et’.on to see our store—the Best in keeping with growing Shel be worth your while. Jno. M. Best Furniture Co. NEW ROYSTER BUILDING. MOST UP-TO-DATE STORE IN THIS SECTION.