During this, our last week, we are going to bury the price-cutting knife still deeper into the prices of all goods remaining in our stores? We are selling cotton goods cheaper than the manufacturer's cost price today-but we bought these goods before the great advance in prices and are selling them cheaper than we can buy them today. We positively sell you cotton goods at your own price. We are having one of the best sales we have ever had? Why? Because we are undoubtedly selling goods cheaper than any merchant in this section can buy them. Now we are looking for the biggest week this week in the history of our sale? We are anxious for you to visit us during this great event? We want you to have your share of the bargains Come today? Don't Delay ? The Sale is now going on ? But next week will be too late. Come! FORTY-FOUR PERSONS WERE SAVED FROM THE FLORIZEL. New York, Feb. 25. ? Seventeen passengers and 27 members of the crew of the Red Cross line steamship Florizel, wrecked near Camp Race, have been taken off by rescue ships. They are the sole survivors out of the 186 on board when the ship struck the rocks. The Florizel carried 77 passengers and a crew of 59, accord ing to official advices received here by Browning and company, agents of the line. If these figures are correct the death list would stand at 92. Wheat less Weeks. And now they are talking of wheat less weeks instead of wheatless days. Well, why not? If the allies across the sea are suffering for want of flour it is manifestly up to those of us who are not going to the trenches to give up all the wheat we can. Flour bread is not essential to our lives ? because we have other things in abundance. It may be a little out of the ordinary to cut out flour, but it is also out of the ordinary for an American citizen to go to foreign lands to fight. It is a world war, and all of us must help win it. Cut out anything and everything to win the day. The folks at home can subsist on corn pone and should gladly cut out their wheat if it will bring health and comfort to those enlisted in bat tle. ? Fairbrother's Everything. 2,500,000 Draft Reserves. Washington, February 21. ? Nearly 2,500,00 perfectly fit men will form America's first line of draft reserves, Provost Marshal General Crowder's office estimated today. Thi3 represents the approximate number of draft registrants of Class 1 that will be found fit for military duty as a result of the questionnaire system. It is about 500,000 more than the original estimate of General Crowder. Although the exaci figures are not yet available, officials stated the total number of Class 1 men will be ap proximately 3,116,000. The percen tage of physical disqualification is es timated at not more than 20 per cent and probably less because of the re cent lowering of physical require ments. The percentage of 20 per cent would mean that about 620,000 would be rejected, thus bringing the number of available men down to 2,496,u00. Wheat and the Farmer. New York World. Bills pending in Congress exempt farmers from the draft, as they are already exempted from laws against the hoarding of food, and fix the price of wheat in primary markets variously at $2.50, $2.75 and $3 a bushel. Yet many of our statesmen who assume to speak for the yeo manry talk very glibly against profi teering. When government undertakes to set a price upon coal, steel or sugar it hears the arguments of the pro ducers of these commodities, but it makes them show their books. In this way actual costs are made known and reasonable profits are estab lished. Whoever heard of such a test as applied to agriculture? For more than a generation an tedating this war dollar wheat in his bins was the ideal of the American farmer. By an executive order au thorized by Congress last year the price of wheat in the Chicago market was fixed until July 1 next at $2.20 a bushel. This means $!5 wheat, ap proximately, for the principal grain growers of the West, provided they produce a grade that will pass in spection, which many of them do not. During all the years of Civil War, when greenback inflation was ram pant, wheat only occasionally brought more than $2 a bushel in the Chicago market. Why should it command a higher price in gold today? Smart Boys. The schoolmaster was giving the boys a lecture on thrift and pointed out how the squirrels stored up nuts for the winter. Then he asked for another illustration of thrift in ani mals, and on boy cried out: "A dog!" "A dog! In what way does a dog practice economy?" "Please, sir, when he runs after his tail he makes both ends meet." The master laughed, and another boy said: "A bear." "Well, what does the bear do?" "He makes one coat last him for a lifetime." ? Minneapolic Tribune. During the last few weeks Maurice and Augustus Tapley, ages seven and eight, of Jackson, Me., have sawed four cords of wood. POTASH? WE HAVE IT. COME quick. Austin-Stephenson Co. No Trice Fixing on Farm Products. Washington, Feb. 25. ? General price fixing on agricultural products is not a part of the policy of the food administration and will not be at tempted, Food Administrator Hoover said tonight, in a statement designed to reassure farmers apprehensive that the government might set max imum prices on what they have to sell. Cosmopolitan America. When the roll of the new draft army is called the sergeants will shout the names of Schmidt, Schmitz and Smith; of McGinty, O'Connell, Murphy and O'Neill; of Swanson, Hanson, Peterson and Rasmussen; of Lissckattos, Gourass and Popado pulos; of Sorolff, DhematioflF and Sosnowski; of Carlesi, Bianchi, An guili and Depaoli; of Simbalbenko, Serresegue, Muhoberac and Kanasue, as well as of Hay, Allen, Culter, Rob inson and Butler. Every civilized na tion in the world has cotributed to this feast of names. Could each one be traced to its roots half the history of the common people of the world would be in it. Each one, somewhere, is the homeliest and most familiar of syllables. The Slav may hesitate over the proper pronunciation of Jones, but he maki* Komnienovich sound more musical than Boggs. These names are the signature of cos mopolitan America. In them is her history and her hope. ? San Francisco Bulletin. Smithlield Shoe HOSPITAL &/> J. W. PHILLIPS. Manager. I am ready now to serve the public who have sick shoes on short order. I will have with me this week a first class shoe man from Salisbury. Bring your shoes to me and have them re paired with the best leather and with the best workmanship. J. W. Phillips , Smithfield, N. C. SHOES AND DRY GOODS AT Selma Supply Company. SEVERAL VOLUMES OF RILEY'S Poems just received. Herald Book Store. SEE US FOR YOUR POULTRY wire to fence that garden. Selma Supply Co. 800 SACKS RED DOG. COME quick. Austin-Stephenson Co. MULES. WE HAVE JUST RE ceived a shipment of nice, good weighted, well-broke mules. Come look them over. Roberts-Atkinson Company, Selma, N. C. IF YOU WANT CEMENT SEE THE Smithfield Hardware Company. MULES. WE HAVE JUST RE ceived a shipment of nice, good weighted, well-broke mules. Come look them over. Roberts-Atkinson Company, Selma, N. C. FERTILIZER FOR ALL CROPS Now on hand. Get our prices. Roberts Atkinson Co., Selma, N. C. THE BUYER FOR THE DAVIS I Stores is now on the Northern markets, buying a large stock of early spring and summer millinery for The Davis Stores, Smithfield, N. C. EGGS FOR HATCHING FROM Prize Winning Buff Orpington ? 13 for one dollar. See or write J. W. Setzcr, Smithfield, N. C. FRESH JERSY COWS FOR SALE. E. F. Boyett, Smithfield, N. C. WANTED? TWO GOOD HANDS for saw mill and team driving. Good wages. House rent free with one acre of ground and use of team to plow same. Call on or write W. E. Parker, Atkinson's Mill ? Lunce ford, N. C. SEE US BEFORE YOU BUY YOUR farm implements and harness. Smithfield Hardware Company. TWO CAR LOADS OF ASPHALT roofing just received. Cotter Hard ware Company, Smithfield, N. C. | THE SMITHFIELD BUILDING & Loan Association has helped a num ber of people to build homes. It will help others, and maybe you. New series of shares now open. See Mr. J. J. Broadhurst. A FEW LITTLE DUTCH SULKY Plows that we can save you money on. Austin-Stephenson Company. FOR SALE ? THOROUGH BRED Barred Plymouth Rock Hens and Cockerels, also Ekks for setting. Mrs. W. L. Woodall. JUST RECEIVED A CAR LOAD OF good Mattresses. Austin-Stephen ' son Company. I BUY YOUR ACID AND COTTON seed meal from the Cotter-Under wood Company, Smithfield. Full supply now cn hand. TWO CAR LOADS POCAHONTAS lump coal just received. W. M. Sanders, Smithfield, N. C. COTTON, CORN, PEAS OR ANY other country produce you have for sale we will pay you top prices cash or in trade. Roberts-Atkin son Co., In