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THE BANNER, TUESDAY MORNIN G, DECEMBER 17, 1907.
We will offer extra values this week in useful Merchandise suitable for Christmas gifts. On account of the short
time left to reduce our enormous stock, we have decided to have a General Cut Price Clearance Sale now and not
wait until after Ch= ———- Ilut
THIS WEEK
Store Open
UY will sell ;■ t mca
an,I Misses’ Tailor. ,1 Sails S
Im- ,1 price ear entire stock of l.ielics’ jj
n<, - ,k ' ; >n,l H:>in Coats. The ,,rices will I
' e the lowest ever offi iv.l. The r,», |, , ; „ ls , |„. s ,,’,| within • h . ,, , j
'la.’*- We Will sell a: r. d toe.) pric-i eieryihim: in silks mol IJress t; oil ' }
and Knit Goods. We v ill sell it inantifaruir-rs’ cos, tl,„nsan.l j
Oiitin.it ali i Hannell.-f Sleepine (; i, i„e„, Kilm
Come mill see what we are showing.
Niehts
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Xmas
CHRISTMAS SPECIALS
necorations for rooms ami halls. Cut Glass. Silverware. Brass And-
irons am ' Fir ° Sets ’ •'•"ereltles in oi .| Brass Work, Electric Lamps, Carv-
lU " S< M - Sclss ° rs ' Sets Lcatller Xovel,ies in Parses. Bags and Belts, Hand-
eloets. Gloves, Ties, Stockings; i„ Sil and Pillow Shams, Pictures. Polls and
Scarfs. Table Covers, Center Pieces and Pillow Shams. Pictures. Bolls and
Boil Furniture Doll Carriages and Go-Carts.
Housefurnishings
We will soil at rnluct'.l pric- House
Furnishings, Carpets. Mattings. Art
Squares. Fortiers ami Curtains. We
have a great line of us< ful imt—h ni-
<!i«e in this depaitnient >uita!>V to.-
Holiday Gifts. Conn' ami look
through.
Shoes! Shoes!
’A e w ill sell at reduced price one
thousand pairs of Shoes-. various
kinds, qualities and sizes.
Nothing nicer than Shoe, for Christ
mas gifts.
r’ ?
furs!
Furs!
'■nig a great line cl
: ml line Fur: f.,i Ba
il Children's Fur .Sets.
’Iiris
lifts
Christmas Linens
Christmas Napkins, Christmas Tow
els, Christinas Hemstitched Sheet and
Pillow Case Sets, Christmas Blankets.
Christmas Comforts and White Quilts.
Umbrellas- -Trunks
We have jus! received a large ship-
men Of Fmlirellas for Men Women and
Children. Special for Christmas
trade.
Trunks. Suit Cases and Hand Bags.
Nothing nicer for Christmas gifts.
Make out your list and come to the Big Store where you can find anything you want for Holidav eifts one
— prices will be 25 per cent, less than other dealers.
7-MORE TRADING DAYS LEFT-7
TELEPHONE
IN THE OLD WORLD
Is Far Behind That in Am i
ca. Turkey *i’hout
Telephones.
* perhaps ti
nt irelv iu t;
unit's. Kaf«
entirely unrest
■dfui. Denmark';
■ Lost in Euro]
■ hands cf iniv
It D
eil l»v ili-e concession fo
of about 11.750,000.
The cost of the servi
varies from $20 to $1" a
vc* raj
about SO co:
ear.
Minos'
To tin citizens of the I'niti-d (Sot
ac-custoim il to turn naturally to i
telephone in every event ot husne
social and domestic life, it is
impossible to conceive that a gre-aT
European city exists in which tlr. *
marvelous convenience is absolutely
piohibited. saws a writer in the (’in
cinnati Inquirer. And yet in Con*
stantinople the instrument is utterly
proscribed, for the despotic Sultan
sees in it a possible means of conspir
acy against the throne. Social e-licis
have oen issued to quench any pr. -
gressive desires in this way; nnd to
this day mounted messengers are em
ployed between Yildiz Kiosk and tin-
houses cf high officials and Ministers
of State.
Of course here is the uttermost ex
treme. Yet even when we take all the
other cities of Europe we see a state
of affairs strangely retrograde—ex
cepting oddly enough the countries of
Sc ndinavia. For the telephone
more generally used and the service
more efficient in little Sweden than
anywhere else. There are more tele
phones in Stockholm alone than in the
whole of Austria, and three times as
many as in all Italy.
In fact, a very large proportion of
all the instruments used from I^ondon
to St. Petersburg are made in Sweden.
The principal service for a radius of
twenty-five miles frem the city is pro
\ided by a concern, called the Public
• Telephone Company. This is a private
corporation, in no wav hampered by
government, and it has some 50,000
subscribers. There is besides a state
service, with some 15,000 subscribers
in the capital and another 70,000
throughout th© provinces.
One person in every six In the city
of Stockholm is a subscriber—a larger
proportion than even America can
show. This is not to be wondered at,
considering the absurdly low rates
50 kronen, or about $13 a year for a
telephone in the house. The private
concern has a gradual scale of charges
up to 100 kronen (about $27) which
Switzerland is another well ad- the pr
vance 1 country, and its service is
more efficient than that of any ot’.i-
. r state-inanag d system iu the con-
in> nt. The federal government net-;
-omething like $7U.OOO a year from the
telephone service. although th.*
ah :rges an* extremely low. These are
a somewhat
installation,
sent service
at present
ir plus the
•olete and
.to started
in lid);;, when it
Th
$20 tV
the fil
ar, $11 the
a year thei
idition of e
cm
1 >• ar. and only
with an all r und
■acli local
poor. It i>
O' the st n.
velojiim nts
hardly ever
house. To
.0,000
\ustri;
more i
At t
een hinted, the ti Ivpfum
Austria-Hungairy is very
exclnsivi ly in the hand-
*. and so slow has its do
he»-n that an instrument i.-
seen in an ordinary private
ay i here are not more ihn
telephone subscribi
. and perhaps half
i Hungary.
i*“ beginning of thi
he duil
•s in all
as many
pres
umes
folded about $500,000. and th.
nt revenue is perhaps three
that. sum.
Again, in Germany, wo find the tele
phone a government monopoly, wi.h a
mewhai obsolete equipment. Com*
imication between subscribers is a
otesquely long and elaborate busl
ur the
nment of the duil monarchy
dopted a graded scab* of charges
ased respectively uj>on 5.000. 0.000
nd above 0,000 calls a year,
rice varits according to location from
21 to $100 a year. In order o en
courage the domestic use of the in-
trumeiu an unrestricted service h.»s
been offered at rales ranging from $2 i
to $4$. The (mire service is much
behind the times however, being^stiii
quipped with the ol 1 fashi ned crank
telephone.
Italy is Old-Fashioned.
The instrument is now more than
Thirty years old, and it is hard to see
why its use is not at least as general
in the old world as it is in the new.
It can hardly bo because of American
alertness in utilizing quickly every
great world invention. because the
still newer automobile industry was
taken up with marvelous alertness in
France, Germany and Great Britain.
Italy is among the most backward
of -Ml where the telephone is concern
ed. In the whole kingdom, from the
Alps down to Sicily, there are not 25,-
000 subscribers, and of these Rome
itself has barely 6,000. The system
is a government monopoly, yet the
service is to a great extent under pri
vate management. A bill has recently
been introduced by the government
to. buy up all privately managed lines
before the expiration cf the terms fix
er Finland. Here the
a. hand and for a mere
is at your disposal all
so that small farmers
storekiH prs regularly
;rumont as they do in
in the Kaiser's kingdom, though
•dice it must bo said Hu* expense
w. in Berlin proper $15 :t yea’-
insun s an unlimitol service, with an
additional payment of i t-i cents per
call elsewhere in Greater Berlin. Al
together there are perhaps 100,000
ti lephonos in the city, which has
roughly 5.500.00 inhabitants. In all
the countries hitherto mentioned the
1 tig distance service is merely mad
dening.
Some Russian Red Tape.
In Russia the residential and busi
ness sections are inextricably mixed,
and as there is no local metropolitan
railway service and only slow
droschkes and trams to rely upon, the
telephone is indispensable. Neverthe
less, St. -ePtesrburg, with a populati. n
exceeding 1.500,000 has only 11.000
subscribers.
Fntil six years ago the Russian caj
ital was served by an American com
pany's telephone, operated under Bel
gian management. An eighteen-year
concession was then granted f.om the
crown and was bought up by the St
Petersburg Municipal Council for 3S0.
000 roubles. There were then 4,000
5.000 subscribers. It must be ad
mitted that municipal ownersihp in
this case has been a dismal failure.
One foreign correspondent was four
teen months securing an installation,
and there were more than 2,000 other
applicants waiting at the time.
Wereit not for red tape theer would
probably be 10,000 mere subscribers
in the city than there are today. The
annual cost is To roubles, or $58, to an
office and 5 roubles to a private housed
The long distance service to Moscow
is still under government control, and
is very little used. A three-minute
conversation will cost about 75 cents;
but an "urgent call” cost three times
this sum. Coupons for th© conversa
tions are issued.
In striking contrast with the servic<
in Imperial Russia Is that of the
um Grand Duchy
Swedes have
$15 a service
over Finland
and country
use t
Sweden.
There are in Paris at present about
.000 telephones among a population
of 2,750.000. The great stores—one of
i serves 50.000 customers a day—
Absurdly little business by tele
phone. barely thirty orders a day’
This is because the service is uncer-
intermittent and generally un
satisfactory.
Efficiency below Par.
Parisian appears to he in no hur-
[tropolitan area. The trouble is that
so far the National Telephone Com
pany has been at the mercy of indivi
dual property owners in selling ‘'way-
leaves” for their lines. The average
Englishman approached by the com
for permission to pass a line
icrcss the roof of his house com
monly refuses, rejecting the offer of
year rent. In Hill, however, all
vill he altered, when the govern
ment takes over the service.
t* n mi nut
The annua
But a sul
n appav
TAGGART SAYS
:i calling up u business
I liiinks Hub' df uniting
•; r more before seeming
Payment. is usually made
e for unlimited service,
ent is 100 francs, or $S0.
rile r must purchase bis
is. which may lie one of
-'overe.l makes, lull must be approv
ed by a government inspector before
installation.
As to the general efficiency of the
service, the Asocituion of Telephone
■subscribers, organized with a view
to secure improvement, puts the av-
ersiRe time required to get through on
a call at front one to thirty minutes!
rives la.000,000 francs profit every
Nevertheless the administration
year from the general telephone
tent of the country. There is an
urgent rate" of S3 for a conversation
with Berlin or London, but for cer
tain cities there is a reduced night
rate.
In England the great power is the
National Telephone Company, which
ed a long struggle with state
and local authorities--a struggle that
will come to an end four years hence,
when the government takes over the
entire telephone business of the coun
try. At present there are perhaps
130.000 telephone used in Great Brit
ain, of which 130.000 are in London.
There are in all Europe, with a popu
lation of 3S0.000.000, barely 1,700.000
telephones. On the other hand we
have in this country over 5,000,000
instruments yielding a gross income
of $18,000,000. Altogether there can
not be less than $750,000,000 of capi
tal Invested in the country’s service.
In London a subscriber may obtain
unrestricted service within the greater
city for about $87 a year. A message
rate subscription costs $25 a year,
pins 2 cents tor each call in the me-
SPRY AT 77
Made Young by Change of Food.
Ally food or combination of foods
(hat will restore vigor to the diges-
organs of a person 77 years old
who had been troubled with indiges
tion for years, (is worth looking into.
This Kans. woman says:
"I am 77 years old and for many
years had suffered from indigestion
which I supposed was caused by old
age. Thought ilie weakened organs
would never do good service any
more.
"1 became so weak I could hardly
get about, my breath came with diffi
cutty. I was really in a bad way. 1
lived as I always had, ate meat ani
other things that were clearly too
heavy for my digestion, but I didn’t
know any better way.
"Five months ago I came to the con
elusion that I would not live much
longer without help of some kind
was badly discouraged until one day
1 read about Grape-Nuts, what it bad
done for others, and finally 1 conclud
ed to try it myself.
Wonder of wonders, what a change
it made. I eat three heaping tea
spoonfuls with cream for breakfast
and the same amount for supper. Of
course I eat fruit and something light
to make up a meal, but I can eat
a hearty dinner—k iting out meat.
"How good 1 feel. 1 can do more
work in a given time than for the
past five years. I can walk two miles
or more and can hardly believe ray-
own senses as to the change. I did
r.ot have much faith at first, but the
next thing I knew I would get up ir.
the morning and rush around and do
things so easily It surprised me. All
this change is clearly due to Grape-
Nuts and r am thankful.’ Name given
by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich
Reed the little booklet, “The Road to
Wellvtlle,’ in packages. There’s a
llel Eves, Indiana Man Will
be Named by the
Republicans.
Indianapolis, Ind.. December 16.—
Thomas Taggart, chairman of the
democratic national commitee, who
has arrived in Indianapolis from New
York, declares the belief that Charles
W. Fairbanks will be the choice of the
Chicago convention for presidential
nominee on the repuDlican ticket.
1 learned enough of the sentiment
the east on this question," said
( liairnian Taggart, "to cause nio to
make this assertion. The fact that
President Roosevelt has declared him-
self absolutely out of the race, cou
pled with the fact that the republicans
will not. allow themselves to be in-
duenced in favor of Taft, just because
he is Roosevelt's favorite, convincos
me that Mr. Fairbanks will have the
best show of any man before the
convention.
■'Everywhere in New York I had
people asking me the question, 'how
about the man from Indiana?’ Of
course, they alluded to Fairbanks. I
informed them that the man from Indi
ana was all right, but told them that
the democrats would bring forward a
man who would defeat any one the
republicans nominated.
A Home Made Happy by Chamber
Iain’s Cough Remedy.
About two months ago our baby girl
.lad measles which settled on hei
lungs and at last resulted In a severe
ittack of bronchitis. We had two
ioctors but no relief was obtained
Everybody thought she would die. 1
went to eight different stores to find
a certain remedy which had been re
commended to me and failed to gel
it, when one of the storekeepers Id
sisted that I try Chamberlain’s Cough
Remedy, I did so and our baby Is
alive and well today. Geo. W. Spence,
Holly Spring, N. C. Chamberlain’*
Cough Remedy always cures and is
pleasant and safe to take. For sale
by H. R. Palmer & Sons, W. J. Smith
& Brc., L. P. Canning, E. C. McEvoy,
Orr Drug Co., Athens, Ga.