kt-v \ SEVERAL DOZEN"PAIRS OF CHILDRENS.OXFORDS AT 50 cents ' ; Men'? and Ladies Oxford s in Proportion f*r\innrn nr \.nmtref? vressca ?h' i xrrnrmr, aviw ..V '/,' Remnants at Half Price (Ms Jt yic- , at' its ,, ,i ?: v, _? ",,17"v Hundreds-of yards of this sea son's newest mateials in Crepe, Silks, Voiles, etc , all offered at half the regular price./ Shipment j i New Silks Vfe are just in receipt of a new shipment of new Taffetas and' Crepe Silks. These are especially desirable at 75c and $1.00 yd. JSH ? 9*un>CI -*41: U H 'tu; # REDUCED ?MM , . Vi -? White Oxfords and Pumi We have received this week, shipment of White Oxfttr4$ Pumps for Ladies, new Cole styles, at special price of p^r pair $2.00 One Lot Assorted /Oxfords In all sizes for Ladles, Misses and Children. Wq > Your choice, pair /30 telilo / . / ? j . Our Milliner is still with us and will be glad to do any service she can for our customers. Hun dreds of new shapes are here and they are yours for exactly what they cost us as we do not want to carry them over. Make our store your trading place and be a satisfied buyer. 's -Leading Department Store Attorney General Blckett's Speech. ' It appears from comment of the newspapers that the most notable event ot the Press Association meet ing at Wrlghtsvllle in June was the address of Atty. Gen. T. W. Bickett on the proposed constitutional amend ments. Tht; comment In the State press has been highly complimentary and we re-prtnt an editorial from the Wil mington Star?under the Caption of a fine Campaign Document." That address delivered by Attorney General Bickett before the Press As sociation last night on the proposed Constitutional Amendments, printed in full on another page of- The 8tar this morning, ought to be read by ev ery voter ta North . Carolina, and to that end it would be ?greater-service to the Commonwealth If every news paper in the .State shouid .prlnta it. It ought to be published In pamphlet, form, also, and 100,000 copies ot IT circulated In the State between now and the electloirin November, when the people of North Carolina will de cide at the ballot boiwhether or. not these ten proposed cfffngOB or any of them are to be made in the funda mental law of the State. If any sort ot campaign Is to be waged in behalf ot the adaption ?f these proposed amendments, not bet ter campaign document can be pro duced than Attorney 'GeMral Biek ett's address to the editors ot the 3txe. It is comprehensive. ooacUe, '1 laminating and entertaining^ gives all the Information as to the history of the movement to amend the, constitution, the necessity for the proposed charges and the effect of their adopted, that a;*ofter.aesds >? enable him to thoroughly understand the effect of bis vote on the propo sition and to-decide intelligently how he ougiit to vote oa each of the amendments' proposed. No other doc ument on the subject yet produced Is nearly so concise, comprehensive and Illuminating. Sick Headache, Bad Breath, Sour Stomach, Tarred Tongue and Indiges tion, Mean Liver and Bowels cloggj Clean up tonight Get a Igc bottle Df.I King's New IJfB Pills today and " and bowels of fer iting, gassy foods and waste. A hovtf movement gives a satisfied. 1 feeling?makes yon feel fine. ve, yet mild. Doni gripe. IKc. at your Druggist. Bucklen's Arnica Salve for Burns. Voer OINTMENT fell* to ran ?ny o? of IlcUo* Blind, Pi ljii4|MiHa1jWrtl 4m Tka Ant MtlMllw sine ud Bnt, Ma The Unscientific Scientist Scottj on The Desert. San Diego Exposition, July, 1914. Dear Hurb: Have you heard about our Indiana (Note the our) ? We've got a bunch of them In the painted desert that the Santa Fe Is building on the Isthumus. Not the regular Isthumus you know, but the "Isthumus" at the&an Diego Exposition. It's the amusement street?lots more fun than the regu lar Isthumus. i T^ell, I went out to BBe poor LtTon, the painted desert the other day and was formally Introduced to the ?hlef, Napeshneeduta (Red-man-who-Fleca not.andsome of his luraves. I straggled to entertain htm with airy persiflage but he gazed at me stolid ly and didn't seem to appreciate my efforts. I thought may be he was human enougn to be Interesting In his own affairs so I asked him how many squaws he had?it seems to ine that tl'cy have (olygamous tendencies? but he just looked at me disgustedly and grunted, "No sabe. No speak Rngliali." Feelfog that my Intellectual sweet ness was being wanted on the desert heir. I turned to the guide and very frankly expressed my views on .In dians In general. I showed htm a copyV of a local paper containing a write.up about these particular one*. 4Ie glanced at It handed It to Mr. Red Man?Who-Fiees-Not. Five minutes inn T linWiM Mf Minjri'.o tlnlaing the paper. "I thought you cculdnt under stand English," I remarked, mtw ply -was somewhat disconcerting: "I cant. B?t I can re^ ltf* ^ Casually I sidled toward the exjt, while-the guide explained that Mr. Red-Man-Who-Flees-Not Is a graduate of Sarvard. We walked around the pueblo and later came upon ona^-of the bravea whom I had met He was sitting in the shade of 4n-Adobe hut Industrious ly reading that same paper. I noticed that tt was up-aide down.' Tor the 10?? of Mikal Look .overgrowing ohlld pretending to re*d that ps^er," I exclaimed to the-{Bide. "What are you reading about that's so Interesting, Mr. Raln-ln-the-Face?" i. The gentlemen In queatlon looked at me* Badly and remarked: "I read hers, Mr. Bcotty, wpere every man 'he 'tebd tQ his own dam business." . T lie deuce of associating with In Sllaaa la that "you never can tell till you've tried *em. And then you're like to be wrong!" ? . This fellow who bosses the Indians wye they are going to perform their cermonlal rites and dances?whatever that Is. Maybe the next batch of red men will Include some bearcat dancers, but these look to me more like slUerB. There are many other Interesting features about the Desert, but I guess they'll keep till my next letter. Yours for the white man,, ? ' 8C0TTY. . . - Cash as a Biologic Factor. Ttf&re Is always something to worry about'?a condition evidently designed for some beneficient purpose. As Father Gregory once hinted "Perad v en t ure this world here Is made trou blesome unto as, lest we be delighted by the way and forget whither we are going." At all events, a present cause for worry is the evidence presented by unshakable figures that the birth rate of civilization is steadily going down. Just now the chief excitement on tbls score centres in Germany. Ger many has Ion? been distinguished as the most prolific of nations but recent statistics show that the birth rate there is now deciarttg so rapidly that by 1920 it will fall below that of France. Of course the wiseacres are ready always to tell us why this is thus. City life, economic stress, equal suf frage, and several other latter-day conditions r/e ascribed as the c^use. Incidentally also, by way of oonfirm that at the present moment there are in the United States more than seven ths million men and women of mar riageable age whoare not married. (Altogether, tha prospect Is extremely gloomy. A century ago the gloom was on the opposite horlson. Mr. Malthus and his disciples had at that time convinced the timorous world that population was Increasing so rapidly that within, a few generations there would ,6? more children than the earth conff support. And All sorts of measured ?some of them most unholy?ws "Seriously recommended as a means of checking'the tftcreAse To-day the chief business of thott who believe themselves commission ed to anlst the Almighty in regulating the affairs of creation is to devlae plans tor lncreaalng the birth rater < A tag on bachelors appears to be the moat popular suggestion, and the most woman unhappy than pay ten dollars a year into the state treasury. It is a well known Mploglcal (act that a man will do anytliAg to avoid the pay ment of taxes; and why should not a shrinking community avail itself of this natural law for the purpose of repairing its population? Then, there Is the premium on motherhood. This has many advo cates. Already Colorado, France, Aus -tralla, and several other common wealths are preparing to make actual trial of this often-urged expedient The theory Is that tor a money considera tion the marled women of civilization will be more?willing to bear children than they appear to be at present. Austrlalia proposes an allowance of twenty five dollars to the mother of every new-botn baby. France is con sidering a- proposition to give the mother one hundred dollars tor each child in excess of three. This Is equivalent to twenty-five dollars apiece for the first four. After that the profits of the business would be considerable larger. The thought of bringing babies into the world for cash does not of course lend Itself to poetry or lullabies. .And it is not intended to. This is a serious practical matter. At the same time, however, when it 1b remembered that the decline in the birth rate Is confined almost wholly to the Intelligent and the comparatively well-to-do, It max he questioned whether twenty-flve or even a Hundred dollars will prov^ sufficiently attractive to overcome th? surplus of mich families against a numerous ? progeny. It may, per haps, prompt the poor and Inefficient families to a more industrious com pllance with the Biblcal command to be fruitful and multiply, but Is this the sort of multiplication we want to encourage. There is, indeed, a growing senti ment that if the State is to meddle in affairs of this kind, it had better coifc flne its energies to the enacting of laws designated to secure the breed ing of only healthy, normal and effi cient children. Society is now rapid ly reaching the point where human quality is Immeasurably to be prefer red to human quantity. And, more over, if the declining birth rate is an Indications of the approaching extinct ion of the human race no cash bonuses will Bufllce to thwart intent of ?rovldence.?Cliford Howard In Aug gust Lippincott's: Cared of Indigestion. Mrs. Sadie P. ClawBon, Indiana, Pa , was bothered with indigestion. "My stomach pained me night and day," she writes. "I would feel bloated and have headache and belching after eat ing. I also Buffered from constipation. My daughter had nsed Chamberlain's Tablets and they did her so much good that she gave me a few doses of them and Insisted upon my trying them. They helped me as nothing else has done." For sale by All Dealers. Carranza's whiskers will st>on be fanning the presidential breezes of Mexico. " * ? Headache aad Nerroasness Cared. "Chamberlain's Tablets are entitled to.atithe praise I can give them." write# Mrs. RtebarO Olp, Spencerport, N. T. They have oared me of headache and nervousness and restored me to my normsl health," For sale by All Dealers. Two People In a Store. Have you ever observed the actions of a man and a woman In a store? It not, you still have something to learn. We spent a few minutes In a local store yesterday and this It what we saw, - A man from the ?country strolled in, greeted tli?, propretor with a breezy "Hello," remarked about the weather, crop prospects, the latest dog fight and a few other important mattera, and ' eventually remembered that he wanted a curry comb.He took the first one handed him, tossed a dollar on the counter, shoved the change IntS his pocket without counting .helped him self to an apple, and leisurely follow ed his nose to the street. Ten minutes later f woman walked briskly in, handed the clerk a smllllng "good morning," and promptly re Quested to be shown thus-and-so. Sho picked it up, felt of it, held It up to the light, twisted it, turned it over, ox- - amlnod It from every vantage point, considered the price?and rejected It It was not Just what she was looking for. ' Did the clerk have something else? He did. Three different something* were shown her without any better results Then the light of the world returned to her first love, teated it, folded it, careased It, and told. the clerk she "guessed it would do, though not Just what she wanted." She paid for tt, counted her ohajLge careful, Jet her eyes roam orer the I ??? t eam.? STOrP, u)Ol nine ui uuiiimWHO uiiunn she wanted later on, and departed With a fund of Information stored up for her next visit. /: ijl I : " * 1l * ' ' | -p,- Hat? you got that tired feeling so common to people at this season of the year? - We have the remedy waiting for yon, and - -t . ? "'?? it will tone you up in short ot-der. Costs just a few cents to make you feel like a new man or woman ' ^ We also have everything in drugs, toilet articles etc. I ttpany H f t- +r~ !ihr a m *?a W