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Chiffoniers A beautiful Chiffonier would make an elegant present. We have a large line from which to select. One exactly like cut in genuine quartered oak. $17.50 McDougall Kitchen Cabinet You would touch the heart of the housewife should you present her with one of these. No one knows as she does, the countless number of steps she takes in fhe kitchen. The McDongall kitch en Cabinet cuts her work in half and makes cooking a pleasure. PRICES $t&5o TO $45.00. Why waste your money on useless trinkets for Christmas gifts—which will soon disappear and be forgotton and which will never be appreciated. The most sensible gift is something that will be useful as well as ornamental and will be a life long reminder of the giver. WE SUGGEST FURNITURE. Make the home a present. Something that each member of the family will enjoy. We are ready with a large line of house furnishings goods, suitable for every member of the family. We will be pleased to extend to you the privilege of our liberal credit system. Make your se lections here and if you are not ready for them to be delivered we will keep them and deliver v/hen notified. ROCKERS We haue them of all styles and shapes. The kind for father, mother, sister, brother, sweet heart or friend. As a special for a few days we are offering one like cut, genuine quartered oak, spring seat, upholstered in genu ine leather for $ 10.00. $1.00 DOWN AND $t.oo A WEEK. COMBINATION CASE We have on the floor awaiting your inspection a handsome line of Cpmbination Cases. You could not select a handsomer and' more useful gift than one of these. Prices $12.50 to $50 | Special., S45. j DAVENPORTS It is needless to explain just how much joy would be brought to the housewife should she receive a Davenport as a Christmas Gift. Besides being an elegant piece of parlor furniture suitable for a palace, it can easily be converted into a comfortable bed. We have them finished in oak or mahogany, upholstered in genuine leather, chase leather, yellowtsilk, etc. 1 ‘ As A Special we are offering one exactly like cut, which is one of the finest we have, for Only $45.00 . •" $5.00 down and $1.00 a week. Shaving Stand If you would see him wear that “lasting smile” just let us send up one of our Shaving Stands. It is indispensable to the man who does his own shaving. We have a large line from which to select. Prices ranging from $6.50 to $17.50 Music Stand This would in deed prove a use ful as well as hand some gift. There is nothing harder than music to keep straight. One of our cabinets will solve the problem. Inspect our stock, we can please you. Our prices are lower than the other fellow’s. Royal Morris Chairs~“The Push Button Kind” The only Morris Chair that can be adjusted to any of its nine comfortable positions by simply pressing a button. It is not necessary to get up to adjust the back—you simply press the button and the back moves either way. 200,000. now in .use. The guarantee protects you—if its action is broken from any cause what ever it will' be replaced FREE.' Many styles in oak and mahogany at modest prices. Make your selection - while our stock is complete. This would make an ele gant Xmas present. Buy one at a dollar a week and then you won’t miss the money; it would not be a penny cheap er for cash. PINES FOII DECORATIONS t^ORTM CAROLINA SOCIETY OF NEW YORK TO CARRY OUT NOVEL SCHEME. % Nnv YORK. Dec. 6.-A carload of ^rn.iin* rout hero pine treat la on Ita way ►fill)ward to furnish the decorations for *!»♦ dinner or the North Carolina Society wf.it-h ii tola bald at the Hotel Aator on |*e T. President Walter It P«|« nnd *l>- ether members of Ui* aoclcty Intend t.« make the ©ccaalon one of national tm- |>*m u t'iW and to bring to the conahirra- I ion of southern problem* and condition* h< opinion* of turn* of Ui* ablest and a><»( prominent southerners In the coun- *" vcceptancea already received tndl- «*t* the: at least *09 jrueeta will be *>• •• tit at the dinner. The presidents of S i: the various southern societies In New "’k mi i act aa a reception committee a-’-! the governor* and senator* of all |i *•< .Ho rn atatea have been invited to ar..-..l The lighter aide of the enter- i meat feature will not be neglected a i *» double quartette of singer* front «>• Ha-'i too Institute will render a pro- gn»nt . f . Id-time southern melodies. Judas Taft Quest af Hener. lTesldeat-elect Tnft Wilt b# the guest gr h< »..>r af the evening, and hti speech, e : i «. I be tho nrat since hi* election to sis* i Im an opportunity to discus* cur tent question*, will Prd.aM> be devo- ^^^BBNalna hi* attjtude nnd that l.»> -olr nation toward the south It Je < v •. i.*i alee that he wilt setae thl* «.'•••« to definable position In reran! t« uni revielen Tn view of tit# deve'op. Wash- SAVANNAH FIGHTS FOR THE RACE AGAIN MOTOR PARKWAY MAKES A 8TR0NQ DID AND RESULT IS IN DOUBT. SAVANNAH. Oa„ pec. 'The Aral bntlla In the effort to bring back to Pavannah for next year the grand prise of America automobile raco will Ih* fought In Now York on December 1L nnd succeeding day*. When the big 86.000 gold vyp won here on lait Thanksgiving day In the first grand prlae race, will be presented by the observing a n eruption of Vaittviue. Automobile tiub of America to tha Prance Bacon, the founder or populir- MANY MARTYR8 1*0 SCIENCE. Advancement of Human Knowiedg Mad* P.OMibla by Htroif Sacrifice of Ufa. Prem t^i lfoaton Herald. From the day on which Archimedes was slain at Ryracuaa while vrokuig out & geometrical problem to tho hour 'vhen.Selfrldg© paid the penally of nla devotion to aeraonautlcs at Washing- ton. science has never lacked martyrs. Sometimes they have suffered' from h faulty adjustment of tha realm of be lief that of knowledge. They havo given up their lives none the-less he roically In the age-long struggle be tween man and nature. Aa far hack aa the year U Piny, the elder, a famous, old-world naturalist, w*a suffocated by dust and vapor while observing an erupt lorn Mayor Tledeman. President Frank j ,*•« fpom crtld 0 _ ll _ h ! . *• Hatley, of the local agto club, andlj!? JJEJL of Harvey Granger, lumberman and SJwfUS - L prM#nr * chairman of the autu course commit- P**R**de. the astronomer, was found “ ... - - - - - dead In August, 1T41, among hte baro metrical Instruments, on one of the highest peak* of the Pyrenees. Twelve years later, while a savant named Richardson, secretary of the St Petersburg Academy of Sciences, wae '-JhcrtMnt* in V». <Vnt W. W. Finley, of the Houth- eiT, >N*y. will speak on the imlus- t-le! ei- • of the aoafnUdrVakmiiHWt. end am5* s oilier speaker* will I# Hon. James V -utwnr.tendani of puhttc tn*l •tnnt! ' n t*i Carolina. Junius Par kli. cf N.-W York, and Hugh McRae, of V limit ► • N. .' Waiter if. Pace, rdl- V't * i' ■ id's Want, who t* pretla dent of me North Carolina Boony. uni C rendf *< • dinner and Will introduce hr ji of whom will talk on •erne piw-- ••• the gaaeert subject. MM m f . r i • S tn Khart m»< .. I ■■BmpIN a* SMS'br ton- ot the tee. will go to New York and begin the light. The Kotor Parkway Asso ciation, backed by William Yamlorbllt. Jr. and Me friends In the parkway scheme, will of cogrte light tha pro- position a* they want the rue* for ‘n* parkway. Savannah's String Arguments. Savannah will urge ber two strong: argument* -a perfect course ntul a perfect patrol. Just hOw far that will with th- A. l\ A. people who • already been practically tleil up with the Motor Parkway Association. « an not be foretold. Savannah a pres* It**** Is backed by the showing made jin the Thanksgiving race and by the i help of the newspaper tribn who weie i h«re. and added to that Is the deslrv ; of the foreign racing driver* and car- maker* lo hold the next race In tho j south in the fall of the year. I The local people are figuring on a new course that will give nearly Ivlevea mile* each In two straight- ] away*, nnd with a course almost lo I the shape or a parallelogram. Buch a course would be little short uf per- tfect. It It ^needed that the light Will be sharp and ihut Savannah W»U DISTINCT STEP Auburn. N, T Dally iTtlaaa. hmnlc Bright’s Disease r cxpermlentlng with a conductor aecur. ed t» the roof of hts house, lightning enmo down the rod and struck him dead. In* 1769 the French astrono mer. Chappo d'Auteroehe, waa carried off by a fever epidemic while visiting California to study an eollpse of the sun. In December, 1140. an attempt to liquefy carbonic acid gaa cost the Ufa of Hervey, a pupil at tha Parla school of pharmacy. Strickland of Oxford, England, was killed while examining tlUL geological structure of n railway cutting, and Bryce loat hla life while studying the formation of rocka near the.fall of Foyers In Scotland. The moat pathetic of the sacrifices recorded In the history of science are associated with the struggle against dlaaaae. Thousand* of physicians, nurses nnd missionaries have been car ried off by contagious maladle*. con tracted In the performance of duij. i A few, like Father Damen, have wm martyrdom before the world; a fa» 1 larger number bestowed the gift ot their lives In obscurity. Some h.tv* surrendered themselves for experiment, like the St. Petersburg students who the other day allowed themselves to be vaccinated with cholera germs. . At least one sacrifice of this kind la conspicuously associated with the American campaign against yellow fe ver In Cuba. After the occupation of the island by the United States. Dr, Walter Reed of ' the United States army, had charge of experiments ua- twt inntw*. dertaken with a view to discovering IN ADVANCE : the source of the disease. Mosquitoes were inspected, and a number of army !^ n » ,u J. ,nV 2 fi i i ¥ M"the r«a*t! *2»* It Is certainly curable new. M/l* JfbJJ^tbe druggist, tell*, us of a re- markable recovery Tn this city. There bSmrt theje4i|nea^ srktd far Death, gie ago I was marked for irimysri cough was tear ls to pieces. Doctors falll i me, sad hops bad fled, uet.and got Dr. King's New says Mrs. A. c. Williams, r. The Erst doe* kdpi provetnciit kept «>n until 1 IS pounds In weight and was fully reatored.*** This Ids the world s hcalrtg re- A Ckristmas Blstttr. '•With two lent* sheet* of Molting U- 1 cf our rromtneot fai men voluntcerc.1 to submit themselves to the bite* of those Insects. The flrst to bare hla arm to the experiment** was Dr. James Carroll. He contract- — PMNJPP , nri , Hi malignant type of yellow fever. was no qurstlnn about the t*lkutnereVp The disease, though lemporsrtly p*- of the rase. The patient, a ladv. t* con- covered from, brought on disease gf , ,*** ^..T^jSSBrBridS. dn»psy. and the albumen was tn Well cDormou. quantities as to solldfy tn th* a specific from, l all tom la that wae elite- Stele. The mSuItT^rletJd Arrest 'astlm- j eutnnavtgeted the- globe, loat hi* life- ishment Hymr* ^r* 1 -*?*?*: 1 —— i. »ks ths heart, end Dr. Carroll finally died aa * result of th# Infection In Sep tember. 1WT. Great travelers by sea and land have given their live* for science. In the lean mptoma hemp "it 'eufeatdc j In an engagement with natives; In the F^Auel i\\\ Analtv I Fighteenth. Capt. Cook, one of tbV tv^SaSd ,lac# Rctu>w -, moet famous of the W5fid’s navigators. The peculiarity n(.it- treatment !■ th*il RWI struck down tn wl.1 career by the It d5e*5 SSSHOf a Sandu ich 'Islander. Te-O tV " , *n* t|o l n euthtv bottle* f'tynchmen. La. I’emw- - end De I^d* to traverse Australia from south to north • wns tho Irishman. Thomas O’Hara fiurke. Leaving Melbourne in August. 1S60, at the head pf an expe dition. he passed succexdfully through the great desert, nnd sumo In sight of the ocean. But furthor advance was stayed by a clayey plain covered w|th tangled growths. Without food and exhausted by their previous efforts the members of the expedition had to beat a retreat. On the way back Burke and hla companion. Wills, per ished of cold and fatigue. Around •’Africa’s sunny fountains" cluster memories of men who died to bring light Into the dark continent Major A. Q. Lalng. an Englishman, was murdertd near Tlmbuctoo In 182*. Reno Callle. who Inspired Tennyson’s first poem, carried to France the seeds of the fatal malady which he con tracted In Africa. In May. 1*7*. sur rounded by a few faithful servants, the groat explorer Livingston closed the brilliant record of hla thirty years’ discoveries In death. At the begin* M.i* •>: Hi* Nineteenth century Mungo Tark was either killed or drowned In tho Niger; Nightingale died of Inter mittent fever In 1841; two year# later dlsessa carried off Duranton. who had explored the upper Senegal; In 1856 Edward Vogel, the German savant, wae assassinated by order of the sul tan of Nadal. Nor has the froxsn north spared the explorer. Barents, the Hollander, who reach*.! Novaya Selmya In 1694. died three venr* taler of disease and priva tions within sight of his "bay of Ice.” The discoverer of Hudson’s bay owed hi* dseth to mutineers, who. throwing him and hi* son Into a boat, abandoned both to th* merer of the polsr sea. Jules d# BNasyms. R FVench navigator of the thirties.. made a successful trip In th* IdlloUe to th* eastern coast of Green land only to vanish with hts crew Into tb«. ICF.0<wf .of. th# Varna Fjord. The less of Franklin and hts men about the middle of th# nineteenth century form* the moil terrible episode In th# history of northern exploration; even the relief expedition* eent out by. Lady Franklin had their fatalities, a* when Ren* Bel lo*. a French volunteer under Captain Inxledcld. met hts death by falling Into a rrevasae. Ktghteen men perished frem eold aud starvation In th# 1J*|3 expedi tion of A. W. Oreety. undert^Wra to ee- ubHsJt thirteen polar station**^ the Arc- The story of fatal icd4«u t* aero- il* the fact usually f^fgotten. Moement. who went up from Lille April. 1806. was killed by a fall Into one of the ditches outside that city; he had slipped from the platform of hi* balloon. In July. 1R12, the dend body of BIttorff. after his "Montgolfier ’ had caught Are. was found on tha roof of a house outside Mannheim. Count Francois Zambeccsrl. an ardent scronuat. tried to combine trie "Montgolfier” with the gas balloon, thus "adding fir* to powder,” aa was said at the time. The two came together In an ascent near Bolegne, and Zambeccart’a body was picked up mutilated and charred beyond recognition. I The saorlflce of Mme. Sophie Blanch ard Is worth a paragraph to Itself. She was the wife of a successful French aero naut. who. haring made many ascensions In France. Germany and the United States, celebrated hts slxtr-sixth and tost at The Ifsgue In February, 1108. After the death of her husband the plucky little woman took up his work, and In July. 1619. rose from the Tivoli garden In the presence of an Immense crowd. Once In the atr Mme. Blanchard set off fireworks and prepared to detach a parachute, which was to complete the display. Sud denly a light was seen above the basket In which she stood. Ttys crowd, thinking this a port of the fireworks, applauded, shouting: "Bravo! Mme. Blanchard!” But the flames continued to spread and It was soon seen that the structure was on fire. Slowly the balloon came down until tt hovered ever the tops of the .houses. The aeronaut could be heard calling for help. It seemed that she would bo saved, so Slight was ths elevation. Suddenly the basket caught.against the projection of a roof and was overturned. Mme. Blanchard fell head first and was crush ed to death on the afreet pavement. At London, tn Ma& 1824, Lieut liar- *, an English naval officer, was killed In a sudden descant caused by tho breaking of a valve. Windham Sad ler. ascending from Blnckburn, Lan cashire, *ln September of the same year, lost his life near Bolton through the collision of hla balloon with a chimney. Robert. Cocking was killed In 1817. and Let err til 1154, through attemplng to defend . in parachutes. nttcmplng to dfsrend in parachutes ~ome years later Arban.* a French aeronaut, .v-oendlng at Barcelona, was blown with his balloon Into t*.ic Medi terranean ar.d never again h*-anl of. In IS.™ oa’.e and in i*«« Chambers lost their live* In England, the latter »*\:p ' ■•• i • >'v »- ,» , Th* death of ktoiifltaln. th a^Wntury naut, at Tonn. Mich.. •{* :♦ In * »*r.?attong! accompaniment i oiri'- study of the nlr. made many balloon ascensions and were In 1874 associated In scientific work under the auspices of the French Society of Aerial Navi gation, to the development of which both had contributed. In April, 1876, they planned a.higher ascent than usual. The bglloon Zenith entered the upper regions of the atmosphere and was lost sight of beyond the clouds Here the cold grew so Intense rhat the aeronauts loat all power of con' trol. When the balloon finally reach, ed the earth the two men were found In the basket frozen to death. There are at least three recorded fatalities from the use of wings In what la known as "soaring fllghtB"—>a method of aeronautics which dates back to the thirteenth or fourteenth century. The first of them recall* the "flying man." one Vincent de Groof, who met his death In wings at Lon don In July. 1174. The second Is the case of Otto LillentHal. of Ber lin, whose soaring experiments, carried on for more.than twenty-five years, did much to pave the way for the aeroplane. When in the air Lllien- thal’s machine looked like an enormous bat. It had two tails, the one hori zontal, to turn the flight up or down; the other vertical, to act like the rud der of a boat, the whole apparatus weighing about forty pounds. The aeronaut selected for his experiments a hilly region In the suburbs of (Ber lin. The soarer ran along the summit of the hill against the, wind and Jumped when he reached the trow. The force of the wind against him constituted a sustaining power, which flor.taetd the machine gently along al most parallel with t’he ground for a V tn *. I .'f J.ity celebration. The balloon i-iwke 'mm • nway from its attachment to th« las- ket and M ’uatsin fell from ■« %. pi height that Ms-body penrirated the j earth for soma distance rest ana, <fhe nnrrrs of Joseph Cr*C*-KpMt*Ui ring t^n-and TheoJnre Bp;veL both Frenchn.in, aocend-< will al«aya be.’ < r.6rabl> :iVt*d ’bet. ?«n Iget *lr the aniuM* * Henmeutks. Th- > m*. j catching Ato. j voted thrtus«)\cs.(ari> In life V> t:e| distance of from sl^ty to as much as one hundred feet. But when the wind speed exceeded twelve miles an hour thro waa gTeat difficulty In controlling the apparatus. Ltllenthal sustained many bruises during his experiments. I It was while "gliding” In 1906 that he fell with his machine and was killed.I to the great regret of aeronauts *tha world over. Pilcher, who continued! his methods tn England, met death In [much the same way. Electric Heating Devices. -JThe progress of electric heatlnr, dur ing the post few years, can be accurate ly Judged from the long list of de vices already developed and pronounced successful. Tn cooking, welding, anneal ing and delicate machinery requiring ex tensive heat, electricity has proven .eu-1 Pjrior to any other form cf heat source.' Following 1* a llat of the application* of electric neat which are In dally use: Annealing furnace. Armature baking fur nace. branding Iron, baking wheel, hntz-l ers. making oven, broiler, coffee percola tors, chafing dish, cereal conker, curling |iroti heater., fff>r lighter, corn popper, ■■vn, cartegiln* derice. dental fur- ■■■flue i. •>••-. foot warmer, flat irons |Call kinds), fxrim: ->-n. glue ©ot. hot oeedle for senfethiphy. Immersion heat er. Incohator.*lettering Irons, milk warm er. muffle furnace, matrix drying ta v !e. ovens, plate warmer, radiator. •«*«ii** wax heater, steriliser. itsmDlBijMjigJ **• rre»* abv.r -hsvii BUSY PERIOD AHEAD FOR WASHINGTON BESIDES THE OPENING OF CON GRESS, NUMEROUS GATHERINGS SCHEDULED WASHINGTON, Dee. 5.—With tha opening of congress but two days distant, and three great national gatherings and other smaller conventions scheduled for the next few days, the national capital Js facing one of the'busiest periods In Its history. The city Is fairly swarming with visitors who have come to take part In the various important meeting* which will mark the flrst week of congress. Practically all -Of the national legislators have taken up quarters in the capital. Several conferences are In progreas to day, Including a caucus of the dcmocrstlo members of the house, who will select a minority leader to aucceed John Sharp William*, of Mississippi. Congressman Champ Clark, of Missouri. la understood to be slated for the place. Aside from the opening of congress, ths most Important meeting of tn# coining week will be the the second conference of governors or their representatives on . Tho governors will discuss the work 3 hlch the national conservation commla- on has been earning on during the summer and fall. The outcome of thl* work Is the first thorough Inventory of the nation's natural resources the federal government has over made. On this In ventory the report which President Roosevelt has requested the commission to moke to him not later than January 1 will be based. m The country life commreeton will hold a meeting after having rompleted the first pari of Its swtng around tno coun- f Vhe southern commercial eongress. whose chief purpose 1* the swakening of people of the fourteen southern states the value of their, natural i I be is**: be In session < and will .. 1 rivers and harbors’ congress, which ..... hold Its annual meeting from Wednesday to Friday. pods. WOfflt i 1 it BBeware of Ointments for Catarrh that Contain Mercury, ■mercury will surely destroy ths sense [melt and completely derange the whole ten when enuring it through the mu cous surfaces. Such arthJes should never be used except on preecr.rtkms from re putable ©byslclsns aa the damage they win do Is ten fold to the good you ran possible derive from thepv Hall’s Ca tarrh Cure, manufactured hr F. J. Che ney a Co.. Toledo. O.. refctaln* no mer- «ihr. -fid 1. i.ic.n intwgihr. .itin, 41. reetly upon the blood in mucous sur faces of the system. In buying Hell's mtarrb Cure, be sure you get the *mi. bine. It Is token tntemsllr and ■ !■ a Toledo. Ohio, by V lUll’s Family m Cheney A Co. for coast!* ti HHHI !