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Like Father, Like Son They both like the Perfection Oil Heater. It makes them forget in a jiffy how cold it is outside. In five minutes the Perfection makes the chilliest room comfortable. It's easily carried upstairs or down, wherever extra warmth is needed. Economical to buy and to use ; durable and trouble-proof. Now used in over 3,000,000 homes. Aladdin Security Oil as fuel gives best^ results ? eight hours of comfort per gallon. STANDARD OIL COMPANY (New Jersey) i BALTIMORE Washington D. C. MD. Charlotte, N. C. Norfolk, Va. Charleston, W. Va. Riclmiond, Va. /\ Charleston, S. C. For farm help the "New-Way 's,? supreme It demands neither pay, Nor three ir.eals a day. But takes the place of a man antTa team. It is not so much what you pay for a farm engine that counts a 3 it is the satisfaction you get from the rignl! one or trouble you get out of the wrong one. Place Your Order Nov/ The War has made a scarcity of material and labor for two years. This created a phortage of farm machinery last year and alfected seriously the output of engines. Prices are going up. They must. This is the time to buy. a?' t \s\rra t There isn't a farm engine built at any price that will give the ssme ratisfaction ard as little trouble as will a "NEW-WAY." Heing waterless and perfectly lubricatea it never overheats but delivers its full rated horse power all the time? every day, 365 days in the year. It is made from the best material throughout, assembled and adjusted with utmost care and precision and is guar anteed for life. In fact, you can't wear out a "NEW-WAY" engine by ordinary every day u . \ You Hold Your Dealer Responsible Your local dealer ha3 the engines in stock and is ready to make immediate deliver. Y' ii can look the engine over; your dealer explains it; tells you of the many "NEW-WAY points of superiority. You see and know the engine before you are asked to pay for it. Your de.dei is al- ( ways there to help and advise if needed. He-can save you money. There isn't one price for the engiste, then more tor freight or express. Be Sure You See The "NEW-WAY" Engine First VALUABLE FARM In desirable neighborhood , good Schools and Churches FOR SALE 46 Vi acres, about twenty-five acres cleared, good ;j dwelling and out houses, one tobacco barn, and one small < frame pack house. This farm lies mostly on good public ^ road, about five miles from Selma in one of the best j farming sections in Johnston County, near good schools ] and lodges, for both colored and white people. Terms to suit purchaser. For further information and ]j demonstrations, apply to the 4 . ^ Farmers Mercantile Co. Selma, N. C. < i Sacks Wanted We pay 10 cents each for good Cotton Seed Meal sacks and 15 cents for Hull sacks. Pine Level Oil Mill Company. Pine Level, - N. C. CALL ON BEATY & LASSITER FOR your Letter Heads and Envelopes or anything in the Printing line. I Old Time New Year Calls j ???*?*???%< IX the late sixties, says U. Hv Put nam In "Memories of a Publisher/' New York had not yet outgrown certain of Its old-fashioned or so-called provincial habits. One of the customs was that of making New Year's calls, a practice that had been Inherited from the Dutch founders of the city. Long before the beginning of the twentieth century the growth of the metropolis lu'il made impossible this pleasant and convenient habit of coming into touch (at least once a year) with a circle of family friends, but in 180*5 the ladles still stayed at home on New Year's day, and old men and youngsters did what they could in the hours between II in the morning and midnight to check off with calls of from Ave to fifteen minutes their own visiting list with that of their wives, their sisters or their mothers. In my own diary for January 1, 1808, I find the entry, "Made thirty-five calls." I remember on that day com ing back In the middle of the afternoon for a word with my mother and find ing old Mr. Bryant in her parlor. It was sleeting violently outside, and the, luxurious young men of the day were going about in coupes. It was the practice, in order to save expense, for two or three men to join in the expense of n carriage for the day. Mr. Bryant, however, had trudged through the sleet and in response to some words from my mother of appreciation of his ef fort in coming out in such weather re plied cheerily : "Why, I rather like a fresh temperature, Mrs. Putnam. It is only the young men who are chilly and lazy." Fifteen or eighteen years later Newj Year's calls in, society had become a tradition of the past. The Life of a War Horse. Well, well, what do you think of this? You have heard of the tremen dous wastage of horse flesh in the present war. You have read state ments by so-called authorities, who have never been in France, that the life of a horse on the other side is about seven days. The next time you asked anybody how long a horse lived on the battle front you were told nine t "en days. Your next friend assured you that four days was the limit. The superintendent of the horse market at Chicago made a computation from the number of horses exported and in formed The Country Gentleman read ers that up to the thirty-third month of the v/ar the average life of a horse in France had been at least eleven months. / * W< shall be obliged to revise our opinions and estimates, not only for France bu:. for all the f cants, accord ing to figures given me by a British army officer. Nothing speaks better for efficiency in the veterinary corps than the actual percentage of losses hich have been incurred during this war. Sanitary conditions count for most of all. Good care and go .-l feed ing come next. In t'. o Boer war the British loss s were fifty-five per cent - a year frer the horses had been landed in Africa, r. th. present war, ?u*ter th< British or.-ev e been landed in ! >ance and S:>. -.I, in Egypt ar.d in Mesopota mia ! : ! total looses from all causes batvlt, d -o;. t , accidents or general vvorihivn,sr -sh ? have been a shade under f.?n per cent each yeah This per rit a figure does not c<?v< r losses ' .1 he time of tho purchase of hones n England, United Spates or Cnnada. It means ten per cent a year after 'hey enter active service. T ive per cent is considered an un precedented mortality loss on horses bought in the United States and Carad ; r.nd shipped to Great Britain and France. At least half of this loss is incurred on land and piior to the shipment, of the horses. We can there fore figure with certainty that of the 1,142,000 horses and mules which nave been shipped out of the United States for war purposes, 945,000 are still alive and kicking. In the s uthern sector on the West ern Front, where conditions are very similar to those which were encount ered in South Africa by the British, the horse loss each year among the Germans, I am informed, has been 9. 27 per cent. Germans and Allies alike are doing their utmost to conserve their horse power as expressed in horses' power. Last summer reports came fro.n va rious United States concentration camps and from the Mexican border that horses purchased for the United States Army were dying like flies. At the close of the campaign the Amer ican looses simmered down to some thing like two and a half per cent. The above statistice come from dependable sources. ? G. E. W< nt^< rth in Country Gentleman. J An official dispatch received in Washington, D. C., from France says that the Turks before surrendering Jerusalem to the British brutally mis treated Christian priests, carried off 'he famous treasure of the Church of tne Holy Sepulchre, valued at millions of dollars, and sent to Berlin the church's celebrated Ostensory of Bril liants. New Post Office Rule*. Postmasters over the country have been supplied with a new set of rules which must be followed by the pa trons of the office if quick results are to be obtained. Take a slant at them: No letters given put until they are received. If ycu don't get a letter or a paper on the day you expect it, have the Postmaster or the employees look through all the boxes and in the base ment, too. Your mail ought to be there somewhere, and the force just loves to hunt for it to please you. If your friends don't write rave at the Postmaster; ho is to blame. If he tells you there is no mail fur you, put on a grieved, sour look and tell him there ou^ht to be some. He is doubt less hiding your mail for the pleasure of having you ask for it. Ask him to look again. If you are buying stamps, make him lick'em and put'em on your parcels ? that's his business: that's what the Government pays him for! When you drop your letter in the mail box fail to address the same, or forget the stamp. The Postmaster delights in filling the delivery window bars with letters and postcards: "Held for delivery." Call and ask for your mail every two or three hours during the <lay and send the kids along between your calls. Turn all the touch buttons on the lockboxes, and be sure to drop the fronts of each box floorwsrd. These rules will be observed to fit the office force for Sunday school work and calm prayer meeting experi ences. ? ?x. To Save Fuel. Statesville Landmark. Suspension of schools and colleges for two weeks at Christmas and un ion church services are sortie of the means suggested to save fuel in the towns. Both are reasonable and prac ticable suggestions, it would seem. Col. Wade Harris of the Charlotte Observer also suggests that residents close their dining rooms and take their meals in the kitchen during the winter to save fuel. Also a good sug gestion and one that many people adopt in winter in peace times, solely for comfort and convenience. That all fires that can be dispensed with, even for part time, should be cut out during the winter, is apparent. The neces sity is urgent. People who have plenty of fuel for all their needs should not run more fires than are absolutely necessary for comfort. To do so is to deprive others who may not be so fortunate. f- ??jfi Provision for others is a fundamen tal responsibility of human life. ? President Wilson. Holland produces 10,000,000 pounds of soap yer.rly. Yucatan laborers receive $5 a day in heihp fields. FURNITURE! We have our Furniture space filled with the best bar gains in both prices and values, consisting of all styles of Furniture from a 50-cent Kitchen Chair to the finest Parlor or Bed Room Suit. The Furniture is new, as most of it has just reached the store. The prices are OLD PRICES as we bought some of this Furniture most a year ago. It must go, and you will save some money if you will investigate the prices and quality of our line of Furni ture, Mattresses Springs, Chairs, Rockers and Floor Cov erings. Cotter-Underwood Co. Smithfield, N. C. Enjoy the Soft Light of Rayo Why put up with a flickering, flaring, smoking old lamp when you can buy a Kayo ?1 RAYO LAMPS give a steady light that is easy on the eyes. You remove neither the chimney nor the shade to light th?-m ? as convenient as gas. Artistic in design, they have no cL rap filigree ornaments that make cleaning a long job. Your dealer will be glad to demonstrate Kayo Lamps. \sk fa. them by name. Aladdin Security Oil is the kerosene of quality for lami*, stoves and heaters. STANDARD OIL COMPANY (New Jersey) *"hV,<,vDC' BALTIMORE ??r1*UeNC. Norfolk, V?. jLirj Ch?rle?ton, W. Va. Richmond, Vi. Charleston, S. C.
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