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THE BANNER, TUESDAY MORNiN G, DECEMBER 17, 1907.
Davison-Nicholson Co,
Davison-Nicholson Co.
CHRISTMAS LIST
® We will offer extra values this week in useful Merchandise suitable for Christmas gifts. On account of the short
f time left to reduce our enormous stock, we have decided to have a General Cut Price Clearance Sale now and not
% wait until after Christmas.- ===== = =
THIS WEEK 1
Store Open
CHRISTMAS SPECIALS
We will soil ;it a greatly rciluc- d price our entire stock of 1.a.lies'
and Misses'Tnilop. d Suits Skirts. Cloaks and Rain Coats. The prices will
he tlie lowest ever off. red. The goods must lie sold within the text t, it
flays. We will sell at n flncofl price-; everything it*, silks ami Dress G ofl;
and Knit Goods. \Y.- will sell at maniiTaenii-ors' cost one thousand pieces
Outing and Flannel!* tie Sleeping G i meins. Gowns. Kinmnas and Wrapp-rs.
Come and see what v.e nr showing.
Nights
Till Xmas
Decorations for rooms and halls. Cut Glass, Silverware. Brass And
irons and Fire Sets, Novelties in old Brass Work. Electric Lamps. Carv
ing Sets, Scissors, Sets leather Novelties in Purses, Bags and Belts, Hand-
chiefs. Gloves, Ties. Stockings; i n Sil and Pillow Shams, Pictures. Dolls and
Scarfs. Table Covers, Center Pieces and Pillow Shams. Pictures, Dulls and
Doll Furniture Doll Carriages and Go-Carts.
Housefurnishings
We will Sell at reduced price House
Furnishings. Carpets. Mattings. Art
Squares. Fortiers and Curtains. W<
have a great line of us< ful liter ■Ivan
(lisp in this department suitable f<>:
Holiday (lifts. Come and !<>ol
through.
Shoes! Shoes!
W'e will soil at reduced price one
thousand pairs of Shoes. various
kinds, qualifies and si/,.. s .
Nothing nicer Jh. n Shoo* for Christ
Tuns gifts.
Furs! Furs!
Christmas Linens
Umbrellas- -Trunks
We have just received a large ship-
\Y an* showing a great line of
Christmas Napkins, Christmas Tow-
men of Fmbrellas for Men Wonion and
<-h**n;>. medium and fine Furs for La-
els, Christmas Hemstitched Sheet and
Children. Special for Christmas
die.. Mi-ise-' and Children's Fur Sets.
Pillow Case Sets, Christmas Blankets.
trade.
Furs in..ko nice Christmas gifts.
Christmas Comforts and White Quilts.
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 Holiday gifts, our
prices will be 25 per cent, less than other dealers.
7-MORE TRADING DAYS LEFT-7
TELfPHONt
IN HOLD WILL)
Is Far Behind That in ' m i
ca. Turkey ftidioul
lricphnns.
,ives a service entirely unrestr
Next to Sweden. Denmark's
. perhaps the liest in Europe
mirely it, the hands i.f priva
ani,s. Hates average al
sum Grand Duchy of Finland. Here the
| Swedes have a hand and for a mere
r SKI ;
elan 1
am i.
and
ed by the concession for a gr
of about $ 1.750,000. |
The cost, of tlie 1 service at present]$13 a service is at your disposal all
20 to $10 a y» ar plus the over Finland, so that small farmers
To the citizens of the Vnltod tSatcs,
accustomed to turn naturally to tit-
telephone in every event of busness.
social and domestic life, it is almost
tinpnssil.le to conceive that a great
Enrcpcaii city exists in which tie,
marvelous convenience is absolutely
prohibited. saws a writer in the Cin
oinnati Inquirer. And yet in Con
stantinople the instrument is utterly
proscribed, for the despotic Sultan
secs In it a possible means of conspir
acy against the throne. Special edicts
have een issued to quench any pr
gressive desires in this way; and to
this day mounted messengers are em
ployed between Yildiz Kiosk and th
houses cf high officials and Minister
of State.
Of course here is the utterm st ex
treme. Yet even wlr n we take ill the
other cities of Europe we see a state
of affairs strangely retrograde—ex
cepting oddly enough the countries ot
Scandinavia. For the telephone is
more generally used and the service
more efficient In little Sweden than
anywhere else. There are more tele-
jhenes 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
nil the instruments used from London
to St. Petersburg are nude in Sweden.
The principal service for a radius of
twenty-five miles from the city Is pro-
vided- by a concern ealled the Public
Telephone Company. This is ci private
corporation, in no way 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 the provinces.
One person in every six 1n 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 ot charges
up to 100 kronen (about $27) which
ir from the
nigh til--
tir-t
t. I,-,
hand*
> ore efficient than that
r state-nuinagMl system
tim nt. The federal gov
something like $70,000 a
telephone s rvice, at
■h irges are extremely low Tile
graded as follows; $20 for th
y, ar. $11 the second y, ar. and <1111.
?5 a year thereafter, with an all r tin
addition of on** e, lit f r eaeh iocs
call.
As lias been hinted, lit
-ervice in Aiistria-lluugn
poor, it is exclusive lv ii
if the state, and so slow has its d
iilopimnts lieen that an instrument i
hardly ever seen in an ordinary priva,
house. To lay there are no: move the;
•O.niMt telephone subscribers in a’,
lustria. and perhaps half as man
more in Hungary.
At tie- beginning of this year the
veminent of tin* dud monarchy
dopted a graded seal,* of charges
used respectively upon 2.000. 6,000
nd atiove (1,000 calls a year. .The
trice varies according to locution front
$21 to $100 a year. In order "o e:i-
;e the domestic use of the in
strument an unrestricted service has
n offered at rates ranging from $2".
$4S. The entire service is mtten
bt'ltind the times however, being stt.,
equipped with the oil 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 genera!
in the old world as it is in the new.
It can hardly be because of American
lertness 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 oil 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 lias recently
been introduced by the government,
to buy up all privately managed lines
before the expiration cf the terms fix-
cost of a somewhat obsolete and
archaic installation. The state started
ike present service in 11*03. when it
yielded about $300,000. and the pres
ent revenue is perhaps three times
that sum.
Again, in Germany, we tind the tele-
ph. ne a government monopoly, with a
somewhat obsolete equipment. Com
munication between subscribers is a
grotesquely long and elaborate busi
ness in the Kaiser's kingdom, though
in justice it must lie said the expense
is low. Ill Berlin proper $1-7 a year
insure an unlimited service, with an
additional payment of 1 1-1 cents per
call elsewhere in Greater Berlin. At
together there are perhaps 100.000
I, lephoncs ill tile city, which has
roughly 3,300,00 inhabitants. In all
the countries hitherto mentioned the
1 ng distance service is merely mad
dening.
Some Russian Red Tape.
In Russia the residential and busi
hss sections are inextricably mixed,
and as there is no local metropolitan
railway service and only slow
drosclikes and trams to rely upon, the
telephone is indispensable. Neverthe
less. St. ePtcsrhurg, with a population
txceciiing 1.500.000 has only 11.000
subscribers.
i'n'.il six years ago the Russian cam
ital was served by an American com
pany's telephone, operated under Bel
gian management. An eighteen-year
on.-essi.n was then granted from the
crown and was bought up by the St
Petersburg Municipal Council for 3S0,
000 roubles. There were then 1,000
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.
VVereit not for red tape theer would
probably be 10,000 mare subscribers
In the city than there are today. The
annual cost is 75 roubles, or $3S, to an
office and 5 roubles to a private house.
The long distance service to Moscow
is still tinier 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 the conversa
tions are issued.
In striking contract with the service
in Imperial 'Russia is that of the
and country storekeeprs regularly
use the instrument as they do in
Sweden.
There are in Paris at present about
17,000 telephones among a population
of 2,750.000. The great stores—one of
them serves 50,000 customers a day—
do absurdly little business by tide-
phone, barely thirty orders a day"
Tills is because the service is uncer
tain, intermittent and generally un
satisfactory.
Efficiency below Par.
A Parisian appears to be in no hur
ry even when calling up a business
associate, and thinks little of waiting
ten minutes tr more before securing
connection. Payment is usually made
flat rite for unlimited service.
The annual rent is 100 francs, or $80
But a subscriber must purchase his
own apparatus, which may be one of
several makes, but must be approv
ed by a government inspector before
installation.
As to the general efficiency of the
service, the Asociatlon of Telephone
Subscribers, organized with a view
to secure intprevemt nt, puts the av
erage time required to get through on
a call at from one to thirty minutes!
rives 15.000.000 francs pre-fit every
Nevertheless the administration de
year from the general telephone sys
tern of the country. There Is an
urgent rate" of $3 for a conversation
with Berlin or London, but far cer
tain cities there Is a reduced night
rate.
In England the great (lower is the
National Telephone Company, which
has waged 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
430,000 telephone used in Great Brit
ain, of which 130.000 are in. London.
There are in all Europe, with a popu
lation of 380.000,000, 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,
plus 2 cents tor each call in the m%-
i
tropolitan area. The trouble is that
so far the National Telephone Com
pany lias been at the mercy of indivi
dual property owners in selling "way-
leaves'' for their lines. The average
higlishman approached liy the com
any for permission to pass a line
across the roof of his house coni
uiouly refuses, rejecting the offer of
1 year rent, in 1911, however, all
this will lie altered, when the govern
ment takes over the service.
TAGGART SAYS
SPRY AT 77
Made Young by Change of Food.
Any food or combination of foods
that will restore vigor to the diges-
gans of a person 77 years old
who had been troubled with indiges
tion for years, is wortli looking into.
This Kans. woman says;
"I am 77 years old and for many
years had suffered from indigestion
which 1 supposed was caus'd by old
age. Thought the weakened organs
would never do good service any
more.
"1 became so weak 1 could hardly
get about, my breath came with diffi
culty. I was really In a bad way.
lived as I always had, ate meat anl
other things that were clearly too
heavy for my digestion, hut I didn't
know any better way.
"Five months ago I came to the con
elusien that I would not live much
longer without help of some kind,
was badly discouraged until one ,
1 read about Grape-Nuts, what it lie'
done for others, and finally I 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—leaving out meat.
“How good 1 feel. I can do more
work in a given time than for file
past five years. I can walk two miles
or more and can hardly believe my_
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 in
the morning and rush around and do
things so easily it surprised me. All
this change is clearly due to Grape-
Nuts and I am thankful.’ Name given
by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich
Read the little booklet, "The Road to
Wellvllle,’ in packages. There’s a
Bel Eves, Indiana Alan Will
be Named by the
Republicans.
Indianapolis, lnd.. December 16.—
Thomas Taggart, chairman of the
democratic national commitee, who
has arrived in Indianapolis from New
York, declares the belief that Charles
Fairbanks will he the choice of the
Chicago convention for presidential
nominee on the republican ticket,
"I learned enough of the sentiment
in the east on this question,” said
Chairman Taggart, "to cause me 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
fluenced in favor of Taft, just because
he is Roosevelt’s favorite, convinces
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 tlie 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
nan who would defeat any one the
republicans nominated.
\ Home Made Happy by Chamber
Iain's Cough Remedy.
About two months ago our baby gir)
lad measles which settled on he»
lungs and at last resulted in a severe
attack of bronchitis. We had two
loctors hut no relief was obtained
Everybody thought she would die. I
went to eight different stores to find
a certain remedy which had been re
commended to me and failed to get
it, when one of the storekeepers in
slsted 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's
Cough Remedy always cures and U
pleasant and safe to take. For sale
by H. R. Palmer & Sons, W. J. Smith
& Bro., L. P. Canning, E. C. McEvoy,
Orr Drug Co.. Athens. Ga.