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Southland Times, Issue 13941, 5 January 1898, Page 3

W. Lewis & Co. have arranged for very special prices in every department during tho entire holiday season. They would advise every visitor to Invercargill to make it a personal duty to themselves to visit their establishment, just to convince them what a capable Home buyer can produce in fashions, in quality, and at such extraordinary prices. W. Lewis and Co. have arranged to offer their entire stock of Mens’, Boys’ and Youths’ Clothing, also all classes of underclothing, hats, scarfs, etc., at. keen cutting prices. Manchester goods, prints, muslins, towels, blouse materials, and all general household goodsandfurnishings, floorcloths, linoleums, carpets and carpet squares, rugs, mats —all at clearing prices. Three hundred pairs white lace curtains, just landed ; purchased cheap from a special manufacturer ; ask for a eight of this lob—you are sure to buy. Showroom: Will exhibit startling prices to make a clearance. Some tempting bargains here. Their fancy department is splendidly assortecl. Hoisery, sunshades, umbrellas, just landed, and now offering at prices which cannot be purchased in the usual way. All of these picked up in London at a low price. Their dress department is crowded out with magnificent goods at prices which put all competitors into the shade. Please shop early.

And Editor of a Newspaper !—“ Conservatives are generally absentees,” confidently declared the elect of Masterton at the Carterton Liberal meeting on Saturday night, and then, as he flashed a glance around the hall, he innocently added, “ but I can’t see any absentees present to-night !” In the next breath he told his still laughing audience that they must “ tread on the corns of the rich man if they wanted to touch his pocket.” And someone remarked, “Really?” . What Success Means.—Chauncey M. Depew has made many observations upon success, and they are all good. Said he in a recent speech—“As an employer of 35,000 men, in all sorts of positions, 1 wish to say that my experience leads me to believe that the men who fail to succeed fail because they do not grasp the opportunities before them. I went into the office of one of the great lawy’ers of New York and said to him, ‘ You are working yourself to death,’ and he replied, ‘ I know it, and will tell you why. It is because every one in that room full of clerks is watching to see when I go out, so that he can fool away his time, or watch the clock for the hour to quit work. If there were a single one who would take a case and work on it all the afternoon, and into the evening and night if necessary, as I did, I would make him my partner, but there is not one; so lam working myself to death.’ ” According to M. Muller, a French geographer, Japan is virtually a land without domestic animals. The Japanese do not eat meat or drink milk, and the cow is of no use to them. Horses are not wanted, since men draw their vehicles. There are many dogs in the country, but they are wild or else belong to foreigners. They do not raise sheep, goats, or pigs. Wool is replaced by silk, which is very cheap. Fowls, ducks, and pigeons are rare in a Japanese home, and only reared for the sake of strangers. This Is Unitarianism.—Professor Story,

when delivering the opening lecture in connection with the Church history classes of Glasgow University, made some interesting remarks on the Bible as an infallible guide.

Dealing, in the course of his address, with how the Bible should be regarded, Dr Story said that the belief in an infallible book was just as enervating to the spiritual intelligence as belief in an infallible church or an infallible person, and there were hundreds of difficulties, intellectual, historical, and moral, in the way of rendering such a belief to the collection of books called the Bible. An immense amount of mischief has resulted in the past from bondage to the letter of Scripture. The real burden of the Bible, that to which the book in all its manifold elements bore witness, could only be rightly apprehended by those who discarded the oppressive dogma of its verbal and literal interpretation, but regarded it with the reverence due to the chief magazine of religious thought, the most perfect instrument of spiritual instruction that the world possessed,