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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 $1.00 yd.
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White Oxfords and Pumi
We have received this week,
shipment of White Oxfttr4$
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
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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
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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. /:
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| -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
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