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CH R C Don't wait until the ready for it. If you can faction. White Ivory Toilet Sets. We have a very large stock of white goods in all sizes. priced from 50c. to $18.00. Perfumery. We have a large stock of imported and domestic perfumes of all kinds. STERLING SILVER TOILET SETS 15 to $30 SIBE RT'I Je/prefer to make a customer rather than just a single sale When you come here for a suit of clothes or an overcoat our object is to make you a permanent customer of thisstore. We know of no better way to do it than by selling you Clothes. Big economies, caused by buying and mmnufac trgon agreat scale, keep the prce down to $17. The lw price causes a large sl While we make hes per suit and overcoat we make more customers. Yo ha,'e otrclothes, too, but we suggest tbat you ?by looking at sTYLEPLUs suits and overcoats styles, aafabrles. Come In! 9. IIIRSCH MANN. 6$ 3 To Havana and return, via e Steamer to Havana. Rates cover meals and berth on Steamer. Tickets on sale January 7th. 1915. limited to return January 25th, 1915. Children at haif fare. For any detail information see Mr. F. M. JOLLY. Traffic Agent, Wil mington, N. C. Via the Atlantic Coast Line "The Stand ard Railroad of the South." Holiday Ex Rates Tickets on sale Deccember 16th to 25th, inclusive and December 31st, 1914 and January 1st, 1915. with limit January 6th, 1915, Between all points on the Atlantic Coast Line and Connecting Lines. The Atlantic Coast Line. "The Standard Railroad of the South." H. D. CLARK, Agent. iTN last. Come t see our li( - We have the exclus by express from Atlanta. Trave Put up in nice leath TOILET SETS 4 to DDR MAETNG NORLS GREATEST PROBLEM WE ARE LONG ON PRODUCTION, SHORT ON DISTRIBUTION. By Peter Radford Lecturer National Farmers' Union. The economic distribution of farm products is today the world's greatest prob!3m and the war, while it has brought its hardships, has clearly em phasized the importance of distribu tion as a factor in American agricul ture and promises to give the farm ers the co-operation of the govern ment and the business men the solution of their marketing problem. This result will, in a measure, com pensate us for our war losses, Zor the business interests and government have been in the main assisting al most exclusively on the production side of agriculture. While the depart. ment of agriculture has been dumping tons of literature on the farmer telling him how to produce, the farmer has been dumping tons cf products in the nation's. garbage can, for want of a market The World Will Never Starve. 'At no time since Adam and Eve were driven from the Garden of Eden have the inhabitants of this world suffered from lack of production, but some people have gone hungry from the das of creatior, to this good hour for the !ack of proper distribution. Slight variations i' .production have forced a change ini diet and one local ity has felt the pinch of want, while another surfeited, but the world as a whole has ever been a land of plenty. We now have less than one-tenth of the tillable land of the earth's surface under cultivation, and we not only have this surplus area to draw on but itis safe to estimate that in case of dire necessity one-half the earth's population could at the present time knock, their -living out of the trees of th'e forest, gather it from wild 'vines and draw it from streams. No one should become alarmed; the world will never starve. The consumer has always feared that the producer would not supply him and his fright has found expres sion on the statute books of our states and nations and the farmer has been urged to produce recklessly and with out reference to a market, and regard less of the demands of the consumer. Back to the Soli. The city people have been urging each other to move back to the farm, but very few of them have moved. We welcome our city cousins back to the soil and this earth's surface con tains 16,092,160,000 idle acres of till ,able land where they can make a living by tickling the earth with a forked stick, but we do not need them so far as Increasing production is con cerned; we now have all the producers we can use. The city man has very erroeous ideas of agricultural condi tions. The commonly accepted theory that we are short on production is all wrong. Our annual increase in pro duction far exceeds that of our in crease in population. The World as a Farm. Taking the world as one big farm, we find two billion acres of land in cultivation. Of this amount there Is approximately 750,000,000 acres on the' western and 1,260,000,000 acres on the. eastern hemisphere, In cultivation. This estimate, of course, does not in clude grazing lands, forests, etc.,. where large quantities of meat are produced. The world's annual crop approxi mates fifteen billion bushels of ce reals, thIrteen billion pounds of fibre and sixty-five million tons of meat. The average annual world crop for; the past five years, compared with the previous five years, Is as follows: Past Half Previous Half Crops- Decade. Decade. Corn (Bu.) 3,934,174,000 3,403,655,000 Wheat(u.) 3,522,769,000 3,257,526,000 Oats (Bu.) 4,120,017,000 3,508,315.000 Cotton(Bales) 19,863,800 17,541,200 Te world shows an average in crease in cereal production of 13 per cent during the past decade, compared with the previous five years, while the world's population shows an Increase of only three per cent. The gain In production far exceeds that of our Increase in population, and it is safe to estimate that the farmer can easily Increase production 25 per cent if a remunerative market can be found for the products. In textile fibres the world shows an Increase during the past half decade In pi-oduc tion of 15 per cent against a popula tion Increase of three per cent. The people of this nation should address themselves to the subjiect of Improved facilities for distribution. 10EEYIO1ETTR lAS Now! Anythi , telephone o indy. ive agency for Nunally's Candy We always get it fresh. ling Sets. er cases-$2.50 to $10.00 $15. NATION'SA LBOR PROBLE OVER A MILLION~ AND A "ALF WOMEN WORK ASFARM HANDS IN THE UNITED -STATES. By Peter Radford Lecturer National Farmers' Union. Our government never faced so tre mendous a problem as that now lying dormant at the doors of congress and the legislatures, and which, when aroused, will shake this nation from center to circumference and ~make civilization hide its face in shame. That problem Is-women 1h. the field. The last federal census ieports show we now have 1,514;000:J"women working in the field, most ot them south of the Mason and Dixon line. There were approximately a million negro slaves; working in -the- fields when liberated by the emancipation proclamation. We have freed our slaves and our women have taken:. their places In bondage. We ha.6 broken the shackles off the negroes and welded them upon our daughters. The Chain-Gang of Civilization. A million women in bondage in the southern fields form the chaingang-Qt, civilization - the industria1T .etragedf of the age. There is no o'verser quite. so cruel as that of unrestrained greed, no whip that stings like the, lash ofg suborned destiny, and no auctiotieer's block quite so revolting as that of-orn ganized avarice. The president of the United Sta was recently lauded by the press, and very properly so; for suggesting medi ation between the engineers and rail road managers In adjusting their schedule of time and pay. The engi neers threatened to strike If their wages were not increased from ap proximately ten to eleven dollars per day and service reduced from ten to eight hours and a similar readjust ment of the overtime schedule. Our women are working In the field, many of them barefooted, for less than 50 cents per day, and their schedule is the rising sun and the evening star; and after the day's work is over they milk the cows, slop the hogs and rock the baby to sleep. Is anyone mediat ing over their problems, and to whom. hall they threaten a strike? Congress has listened approvingly to those who toil at the forge and be hind the counter, and many of our statesmen have smiled at the threats and have fanned the flame of unrest among industrial laborers. But wom en are as surely the final victims of industrial warfare as they are the burden-bearers In the war between na tions, and those who arbitrate and mediate the differences between capi tal and labor should not forget that when the expenses of any industry are unnecessarily increased, society foots the bill by drafting a new consignment of women from the home to the field. Pinch no Crumb From Women's Crust of Bread. No financial award can be made without someone footing the bIll, and we commend to those who accept the responsibility of the distribution of in dustrial justice, the still.small voice of the woman In the field as she pleads for mercy, and we b~g that they pinch to crumb from her crust of bread or put another patch upon her ragged garments. We beg that they listen to the scream of horror from the eagle on every American dollar that Is wrung from the brow of tolling women and hear the Goddess of Justice hiss at a verdict that increases the want of woman to satisfy the greed of man. The women behind the counter and In the factory cry aloud for sympathy and the press thunders out In their defense and the pulpit pleads for mercy, but how about the woman in the field? Will not these powerful exponents of human rights turn their talent, energies and Influence to her relief? Will the Goddess of Liberty enthroned at Washington hold the cal loused hand and soothe the feverish brow of her sex who sows and reaps the nation's harvest or will she permit the male of the species to shove women-weak and weary-from the bread-line of industry to the back al leys of poverty? Women and Children First. The census enumerators tell us that of the L.514,000 women who work In the fields as farm hands 409,000 are six teen years of age and under. What is the final destiny of a nation whose fu tre mothers spend their girlhood days behind the plow, pitching hay and hauling manure, and what Is to become of womanly culture and refinement that grace the home, charm society and enthuse man to leap to glory in noble achievements If our daughters are raised in the society of the ox and the companionship of the plow? In that strata between the ages of sixteen and forty-five are 950,000 wom en working as farm hands and many ng you like v r write for w1 Fine Ci We have a big assortmE We can tell you what brand h FINE PIPES A Waterma $2.50 to $10.00. SHAV MANICURE SETS 50c. t S9gg.at 'menr Dreasts, as areneneu f, La perspiration, they wield the scythe t and guide the plow. What Is t6 be- . ome of that nation- where poverty briaks the crowns of the cqtieens of Ih' iome; despair hurls a mother's Lve from its throne and hunger -drives nnoesnt children fromtre-schoolroom to .tie hoe? The-eensus bureau shows that 155, W!f these women' are forty-five t years of age and over. There is no more pitiful sight In civilization thu ; these saintly mothers of Israel stooped i with age, drudging in the field from mun until sun and at night drenching theii dingy pillows with the tears of 1e'spair 'as their aching hearts take it .ll .to God in prayer. Civilization strikes them a blow when it should give them a crown, and their only I1 vhe broke bread with A mad .ad: '*Come unto me all aie weary azid heavy laden and [will'give you rest" Oh,:-:America! The-land of the free - aid -the 'h6ne of the brave, the wrl's custdlan of chivalry, the tiathpion'o'human~rights and the de Lender of the oppressed-shall we per mit our maidens fair to be torn from a ti's,eithstone by the ruthless hand if-destiny and chained to the plow? 8 Shall we permit our faithful wives, whom we covenanted with God to cher Ish and protect, to be hurled from the bore to the -harvest field, and our e ifherdear to; be driven from the old - arm chair to the cotton patch? SANTA IKNOWS THE VALUE OF OUR CASH PREMIUMS 1)O YOU? Spend I Amazing~ Pric< season's best styles but this before Chri Don't delay. Come All C< All Ladies All La( Sa' Pre - a Dollar-You sue 5 . herhe h~U Ta TFSTORE WiTH 7e will put iat you wan gars. nt of all the latest in cigars a likes. D TOBACCO. n Pens. ING SETS 50c to $5.00. o$1.00 EyU Drces of civilization, can we not appi i our fair Dixieland the rule of th ea-"women and children first?" There must be a readjustment o he, wage scale of industry so that th fomen can be taken from the field o iven a reasonable wage for her sers es. Perhaps the issue has never beei airly raised, but the Farmers' Unior rith a membership of ten million, put ,s organized forces squarely behin he issue and we now enter upon th ocket of civilization the case of "Th Voman In the Field"' and demand a nmediate trial. ASTORIA For Infants and Children n Use For Over 30Years 1ways bears .the ignature of Men With Conceit Experience is u great teacher, bu here are some conceited men who. in gine they can give experience card nd spades and beat It at the teachin ame. Ncwadzys. A woman's- crowning g99usgQf 0 dy's hair.-L41e. ~r.Mling'sNew ife Pifls The best in the world. )ollar ;hem where a Reduction on Coat Su re in a good assortme atmas sale price m~ean while the choosing is )at Suits th: 'and Childr 1-3 lie's Dresses Lts message to us W: sents. Come and se( StrU iECRIcTiASSI~ J1 you are intee satis riass. aduction in cut glass for nery. oxes $2.50 to $10.00. tock many things that will nas presents. No New York Namesake. The genuine old New Yorker w", looking very sad Indeed. "I was look ing over a post office guide or dfrc tory today," he said, "and while oth er cities of the land have small towns Fecattered about the country namedfor them, New York Is without sa sligle namesake. If I had the New York conceit I might say there could be but one New York, but I haven't, and I wonder if the absence of namesakes is due to the fact that New Yorkers are so enamored of their city that none has ever gone forth -to -:colonize, or that those who have gone are of so small consequence that they have been anable to do as much as to give name of their native town to any that they have assisted.- in founding. Whatever it Is, the result reain and there is but one Nev York men tioned in the post offise directory." 11m Cabin Tht.Does Not Hf.t Ti 1W. Recause of its tonic and laxative effect. LA&A TIVE BROMO QUINNfisetterthanordinarw Quinine and does not cause nervousne - rinzing In head. Remember the fou nam n look for the signature of E. W. GROVE-2Se To the Manci Born. - A lady accosted a little girl who was entering one of the fashlonble New York fats where she knew the- ruleu were exceedingly .strict. and aftr some little conversation; said: "How is It you live In these fiats? Ithought they would riot take children. How-did you get inu?" "Why," replied the child, "I was borntln. - SANTA MAKES OUR STORE~ HEAD~ QUARTERS FOR HIS XMAS SHOP PING WHY DON'T YOU? tmas ,most. this week. The e the very lowest. those who buy. rice. is Week, -3off. ~ful in $1.25 an~d $1.50 Bed R~oomn Slippers, this week 98c. ESumter. S. C. it away uni t. We guara Cut( We are making a big ri Xmas. - Static Fancy colors. Xmas b You will find in our regular 6 make useful X1 bumter Effective Punishments. One of the first judges-real judge - -of Deadwood put in operation man, odd ideas of corrective punishmeni r a man was brought before him charged with shooting up a peacefu 1 place without provocation his judgi used to delight in tolling off half , dozen good shots, whose business i was to fire all around the accused who was made to stand up againsi a wall. The closei- the shots and th< 2 more scared the iccused the bettei the judge liked it. If the accuse( demurred against this little tit-for-ta1 punishment he was formally ordere to stand up and the maximum sen tence under the code was meted ou1 to him. In the case of a prisoner whc might not be impressed with the tar get practice sentence there were oth er penalties, such as a five mile gallo on a frisky horse, with the legs of th accused tied under the horse's bell3 and a saddle ma.de of fair sized stones wrapped in a blanhet for his seat. Pro test against this meant again the ex t treme code punishment. Cure for Whooping Cough. A gill of amber, half a gill of old Jamaica rum. Mix them together and rub the child's back and breast with it. Then put a piece of new flannel over breast and back. Do this night and morning and whenever the cough -Is very troublesome. You will fluid that whooping cough will not last long after this treatment. they will bu) its, Dresses and Coats for nt. Our regular prices wer s an immense saving to gjood, is Week, 1-2 F -en's Coats, tie off. 3, this Week, I ts to have plenty of us( if we have followed his M IS