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TURNING FROM .TRAINS England Hopes Trucks Will Solv< Rail Tieup. The London Saturday Review, con servative, discusses the railroad problem in Great Britain as follows: We have been told authoritatiyelj that the British railways are insol vent; that they are run at a loss oi about 1,000,000 pounds sterling pei week, and that they can be saved onlj by increasing fares and freights verj greatly. However, it must be doubted whether any such increase in charges will help the railways out of theii difficulties. After all, they are no longer indispensable. A great and permanent in crease in charges may lead to the permanent disappearance of part of the traffic, and for another part of it to recourse to canals, coasting steamships and roads. Tourists and travelers for a short distance will in any case undoubtedly use motor cars to an ever increasing extent. Heavy goods, such as coal may in growing quantities be forwarded by canal and by sea. Lastly, a great portion of light and valuable goods, upon which the railway freight is particularly high, will in future be delivered by motor lorry. Mr. Clewes, the traffic manager of Lipton's stated <on July 21 before the rates advisory committee of the ministry of transport that his firm had been sending goods by road because they found this method cneaper. ine competition of the sea ship, the barge and the motor road vehicle with the railway is already very successful. However, road travel and transport are only in their infancy, and bound to be vastly improved. As soon as an adequate number of vehicles able to stow away a moderate quantity of luggage are available the public will turn to the new coaches exactly as they turned from the inconvenient suburban railways to the motor busses. Similarly business men will turn to the motor lorry for handling freight. The forwarding of goods by railway takes days, and sometimes weeks They must laboriously be taken to and fetched from the railway. Thus tlie railways cause delay, and the load ing and unloading by three sets of porters, checkers, bookkeepers, etc, lead to a vast amount of unnecessary labor and expense. Besides, during CIRCUS A NATIONAL INSTITUTION COMING TO Abbeville, S. C. WED, OCT. Worn Down, ueorgia Lcay, worn-otn < .Was Helped by THE personal experience of Mrs, Nannie Phillips, of Powder Springs, Ga., is printed below In her own words: "I was in a worn-out condition. My stomach was out of order. I didn't sleep well. I was tired all the time. I couldn't half eat, and didn't rest well at night. "I would get out of heart and blue. I would feel like I was going to be down la bed. Yet X kept dragging Around. - SIX MILLION CORDS FOR SHIPPING CASES Enough to Produce Four Million; Tons of Newsprint, SaysMorgan. ] New York, Sept. 23?^-Substitution ] of metal for wood now used in the 1 r making of shipping cases would in- < - crease the annual output of news; j print 4,000,000 tons, Everett VV. Mor- i r'^an of the Pneumatic Sales corpora-1 ( r'tion, declared tonight in an address , r! before the American Institute of.' 1 [ Chemical Engineers.'The engineers'h 5 meeting was held in connection with'. the exposition of chemical industries! | at Grand Central palace. i "Six million cords of wood were \ ' j J turned into shipping case? last year"^ ,|Mr. Morgan said. "Oil3 an! one-ha'f! cords of wood will make one ton of * I paper suitable for newsprint," he * 1 said. The present output is 2,000,000 1 < j tons. the handling a considerable portion of j the goods is apt to be damaged or, stolen. Exactly as the motor bus is superior to the railway, because it takes a man from his front door to his office, so the motor lorry is su-j perior to the railway in the convey-j ance of light goods, because it'takes them rapidly from the sender's yard; straight into the warehouse of the recipient. The English railways can not possibly survive, if transport by road, canal and sea is cheaper for a large pori..' _ ? j. a.1 j. 1 lion 01 me tramc tnan transport uy| rail?unless indeed, the ministry of | ^ transport should deliberately try to j1 . hamper and destroy its more efficient j ^ j competitors, acting exactly as the ^ ; postoffice did when it strangled the telephone in the interest of the tele- c graph. Perhaps the idea of giving the * railways an artificial monopoly was at e the back of Sir Eric Geddes' mind,c I f when he proposed that his department ju should control, not merely the rail-j* ways, but the canals, roads and docks ^ I as well. At the beginning the tele! phone was considered to be a luxury. c It was therefore allowed to be stran- * p-led. However, the nation will scarce- ^ | ly allow any conceivable government j | to cripple its industries and trade, r j just to keep an inefficient railway sys- s ! tem alive. ii ! The railways can count in future ! only on long distance passenger traf- j i c fic, in which they are superior to mo-; j tor cars and on the carriage of bulky I goods which can not possibly be "sent j [by road, but may be forwarded by! r canal, or by sea. The problem, there-j fore, is now to secure the heavy goods I - 5 traffic for the railways in free com-jj petition with barges and sea ships, jf! The trouble is this: Our railways j! were constructed in an age of small; jj demands. Originally they were built || for a mixed traffic of passengers and }i goods. But a new era has arisen of f] . . - . mass trathc. America has to some extent recognized this. By strengthen-' j ing bridges, widening tunnels, abol-j ishing curves and leveling gradients,1 the American railroads have prepared J the way for handling goods in gigan-, tic quantities. In this country thej | ten ton truck is the standard vehicle j I while the average truck in the United | States takes fifty tons, and mineral trucks carrying 100 tons are com-ji mon. | It is obviously cheaper to transport^ i 5,000 tons of coal in a single train 1 I v.-ith a aingte Mffine than to forward j ! it in ten trains with 20 engines j [ [Twenty engines require 20 times as I much repair and as many repairers ^ I as a single one, and ten trucks re-J quire ten times as many shunters, ? ! bookkeepers, etc., as a single giant i truck. Our railways now require re- f planning and rebuilding throughout, j and the raising of. prices and little | improvements here and there will not!! j alter their fundamental shortcomings. ,1 It will not suffice to replan and re- f ' build them for the requirements of | ! the present day. We must reckon with j Out of Heart |j and Tired, Tells How She Ziron Iron Tonic. i i ????_______?___ "We heard of Ziron, and from what f I read, I was sure it wouldn^t hurt me, j l if it didn't help me. But after taking | it, I found it really helped me, and 1 1 sent back for more. I ate better, felt j| ; much stronger. I am sure Ziro^ i.c 1 a Bplendid tonic." Many people, who are worn down and jj disheartened, due to stomach disorders f and nervous ills, find relief by toning f i up their blood with Ziron Iron Tonic, j f Tell your druggist you want to try | Ziron on our money-back guarantee. * I BANK NEAR GASTONIA IS ROBBED OF SOME $10,000 Gastonia, N. C., Sept. 23.?The Farmers and Merchants Bank of | Stanley, eight miles northeast of here was entered and robbed early today of approximately $10,000 in cash and Liberty bonds. Both the ,ault and a big safe in the bamc were blown open. The noise of the explosion awakened nearby resi-1 dents, but the , robbers made good their escape, going by automobile towards Charlotte. the possibility that passengejr and joods traffic will continue increasing' in the future as it has in the past.j SVe must cease mixing up fast passeni jer and slow goods traffic, for the ;wo will not mix. We must have separate lines for goods and for passen-J jers. If we have special passenger ines we can send over them any number of trains without being constant y hampered by slow moving goods ;rains. If we have special freight lines )ur freight trains need no longer be' ielayed by fast passenger trains. If^ >n the important traffic ^lines ve have two sets of rails for goods ;rains only we can move over them' it the most convenient speed as many rains as we like. One train may closey follow the other. Moreover, it will lot be necessary to have the present itandard guage, but we might take a )road one, which would enable us to landle trains carrying 5,000 or 10,)00 tons of material. No canal can jossibly handle so vast a quantity of rnnslc go o tiroll nlannpH -frpiaVlt. rail vay reserved for good trains only. Mr. Walter Rathenau, the eminent! lirector of the Allegemeine Elektriziats Gessellschaft, by far the largest slectrical combination in the world, :alled into being an expert organizaion for studying the problem of reights, and came to the conclusion hat "by constructing special railways or mass traffic we can, according to onservative anticipations, reduce reight rates to one-half, and to one[uarter of the cheapest freight rates sxisting a' rresent, and such special ailways should be theaper to contract than canals, and be more proffcable and more efficient." The Drom sed reduction of freights is worth J lothing, as well as the forecast that anals could not compete with such pecial railways. Before the war Gerlany had by far the cheapest freight ates in Europe. Her canal rates were jwimimiiiHiiiiiminuiitnimiMinuitiuiirtuiitiuiaimiutiiitnuimiinMuaiiiiniMMWiimtuoHiniit1 iuniumiHuiiii.itiiiiHetuiMtiuiirmmtminMtiniwumtiiufiiiMiiuitiMmKmmRraniiitiiJiiuanuirai | New Fal Our entire stock < i Underwear, Ladi< a complete stock i and County at Gr< DRY 36-inch White Cloth .3 36-inch White Cloth, 2 Heavy Drill, 50c value, at Cotton Flannel, 35c Vain Dress Ginghams, 35c Yah Amoskeag Apron Ginghan Amoskeag Ginghams, 50c 32-inch Bates Ginghams, All-Wool Serges $1.25 Vt All-Wool Serges, $3.00 V Outings, short lengths, 40 Outings, 45c Value, at . . SHOES?SH( ? Men's Heavy Work Shoes Men's Dress Shoes ... . BEACON SHOES I Misses' and Children's Sh MEN'S AND BOYS Men's Fine Felt Hats . . . Hoys' Hats Men's Gaps Boys' Gaps 1 j ABBEVILLE, '. IIIHHIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIIIIlUIIIIIIIIIIHIIItlHIIIUIIItlMllllllllllltlllllllltlllllllllllllllllHItlllHlllllHIIIIIIIIIIII jIHM llll Mllll llllllll llll IIIIIIIMIIIIIIIIHHMIIMIIll HIIHIIIIHHIMIIIIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIII Wllllllll IIIIIIIIIIUIIHIIIUMf A Millin Announces the Op< , Anderso WEDNE; We take plet 1 iui Millinery the viewing We invariab] stroke of the in Greenwoo our exhibit o complete the vicinity. Miss Lc with Ph plete cf Our opening i terest every 1 ally irfvite yc be style, qua trated effort; tion. BIG OPENING SF $14.50 to $18.00 N Styles for every oc with almost any ci ble this price for ] value or more aut two hundred to sel silk velvet and pan ant, cerise, beige,. BRANCH STORES: CHARLOTTE, N. C. SPARTANBURG, S. C. v?iuciorjiitt, a. Kj. SIMPSONVILLE, S. C. PICKENS, S. C. GREENVILLE, S. C. GREENWOOD, S. C. far cheaper than her railway rati All north Germany is a level plai It is intersected by deep and gent flowing rivers. In that country it easy to construct canals without loc While on English waterways barg 1 Goods al >f Fall Merchandise cc e&9 Readyto-Wear, Mi of General Merchandi.1 eat Reduction. GOODS. 10 Value, at 25 yd. 5c Value, at 19c yd. 35 yd. e, at . . 30 yd. le, at 25 yd. is, 35c Value, at . .25 yd. : Value, at 35 yd. 65c-Value, at ... . .50 yd. ilue, at $1.00 yd. alue, at $2.50 yd. V.I . I c vaiue, ya. 40 yd. )ES?SHOES. $4.00 to $6.00 $6.50 to $7.50 FOR MEN AND BOYS, oes .... . $2.00 to $5.00 ? HATS AND CAPS $2.50 to $9.00 $1.50 to $2.50 $1.00 to $2.50 75c to $1.00 rv nAi v. ruL itllHllimrtlltiHtlMIIIIIMHlllllimillHHllll.lJllll IIIHNHIMItHIIHIIIIIINHIIII.'lllllllinillllllMIIHf IIUHIUIIimilHIMIIMIIHIimilllimiHI'lMltMtlMHIilllllMHWIIIIIIIIIHIItllllflllflillllllllMIUIIIItMIJIi YER iery Co., of Greenvill sning of a Millinery Depai n Company at Greenwood, SDAY, SEPTEMt isure in extending to you and all lo an invitation to come to our new < of Fall's latest styles in headwear. iy aim to make our millinery openii store's interesting events, and in o d we feel that we oan say without if millinery is larger, broader and a in any display ever presented at ( tuise Chilcote of Baltimore, M. D., ilson and Henry of Abbeville, will li targe of this department. is an extraordinary event that we fe woman of Abbeville and for this rei >u and your friends to come?Adde lity and quantity, a feature of our ] 5 of our powerful wholesale and re ECIAL WEDNESDAY? ew Fall Hats at :casion, and colors combinations to ostume, suit or dress?YOU may di Fall Hats, but you cannot get bel hentic from a style standpoint. 0 ect from?Developed in Lyon's veh me velvet. Colors black, henna, phe brown and the newest shades of bli OUR BUI For Seven ( Saves 1 Olfo! < lQ r i . wmmmmmmmtmrnmmmmmmmmmu js. of 100 tons are considered large, the'j n. German waterways are commonly us- t ;ly ed by barges carrying 1,000, 2,000 s is and even 3,000 tons. Our railway 1 ks troubles may be permanently solved] t es by rebuilding the lines and separatingj a Bona Fidel msisting of Dry Goods, C illinery, and in fact everythi Be, will be offered to our pa II I AHICQ' DCAH uni/iLiU ivLirw Ladies' Goats, in Cloth and PI Misses Goats in cloth and plus Ladies' Sweaters Ladies' Waists UNDERWEAR FO Ladies' Shirts Ladies' Union Suits Men's Shirts and Drawers . . 'Boys' Union Suits MEN'S & YOUNG MI Men's All-wool Serge Suits, > Men's Heavy Cashmere Suits, Men's Fine Cashmere Suits, a Boys' Suits (all sizes) from . 5-4 Oil Cloth in Fancy White, 65c value at. WOOL AND COTTi $2.50 TO J t i__ i c..:* [ 1 ruims dliu UUU vaaci IAKOFF SOUT ti'i i. /I m itn iiHMiitifiwi im I it tntir lui i imii mi tiim trtuiM iiniiMitf imiii mi mt u ikm m ri m m i in i iim 'ri'i'iiil'iriiiri'iiiiii / \ Q . J : i| e,S.C. ;,: a tment With J.. M. J i S. 0* JER 29th vers of beauti- (% _ department for I ng the masterur initial bow reserve, that *. , : , ltogether more . Jreenwood or '-'M formerly N sjji lave com- 1 el sure will inififtn Wft rnrrii- ^ ? . id interest will highly concentail organiza- &? $A.80 vie : ::M ver. ^ m asles. fING POWpR Millinery Stores (ou At Least )n All Your S Millinery Purchases iltogether the goods and passenger /< *$ raffic. Unfortunately, such reconitruction will cost hundreds of mil-'. ions of pounds. However, the gigan:ic expenditure should prove a most raluable investment. Savings Nothing, Shoes, n g to be found in irons of the City ^ . v| y-to-wear. ? ush ... $9.00 to $40.00 h $5.00 to $12.00 $3.50 to $10.00 $1.00 to $4.50 r the family | $1.00 to $1.75 $1.00 to $1.75 > | $1.25 to $2.00 M $1.00 to $1.75 ;n's clothing vorth $25, at . . $18.50 ( worth $35, at .$30.00 vorth $45, at . . $40.00 $5.00 to $18.00 - ;VS " Colors and Plain 59c. ON BLANKETS J $12.50 . s at Big Bargains. vi . < / >'jN I! II H CAROLINA || |