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59,507 FORDS sold in 3 months DETROIT, Mich., Nov. 30- During the first 3 months of the buyers' pro fit-sharing plan of the Ford Motor Co., which started August 1, 1914, a total of ?9,507 Ford cars were sold, or an average of 19,835 cars per month. The buyers' profit-sharing plant call ing for a return or refund of $40 or $60? according to the car bought, pro vided that between August 1, 1914? and August 1, 1915- a total of 300.000 cars are sold and delivered, the 59,507 cars are sold to October 31 represent a refund of at least $2,380,280 on the basis ?of a rebate of only $40 per car. By taking the average of $50 as the return to each buyer, the amount to be returned by the Ford company would be $2,975,350 for the first 3 months' ^business on the new plan. If the 300, OOO cars are sold and delivered then the r?turn to buyers will amount to be tween $12,000,000 and $15,000,000. Lower Price! Buyers to Effective August 1st, 1914 to Augi during that time. AU cars fully equipp? Runabou Touring-* Town Cs # i All retail buyers of new FORD car share in the profits of the Company to they buy provided 300,000 Ford care a REMEMBER-?Ti TODD'S A Phone 226 ANDER K-W Road Smoothers Set of Four $15.00 New Price s On Ford Cars! Share in Profits ?st 1st, 1915, and guaranteed against any reductions ed f. o. b. Detroit. lt - Car - ir a from August 1st, 1914 to August 1st, 1915, will the extent of $40.00 to $60.00 per car on each car re sold and delivered during that period. 5 A FORD YOU WANT $440 $490 $690 K-W Motor Vibrators $15.00 We carry the above goods in stock? also Firestone Tires --all sizes wUTO SHOP SON, S. C. W. Tho. Horror? of Christmas-As They Appear to a Cynic. In the December American Maga zine James Montgomery Flagg, the famous wit and artiBt, doon a Christ mag piece in words and pictures in which he describes in part as fol lows the cynical view of Christmas that a perfectly decent man had In a dream : "To continue the horrors, there ls thja',family reunion! What can he more doleful than a whole dey gives up to squatting in th ? perfervid circle of your immediate t ood relations? In ones or twos lt la not necessarily un bearable, but to be pinioned for 12 hours In the lap of osculatory con sanguinity la flattening to tbe soul! Your family while they treat you with the brutal affection and disrespectful familiarity nf old friends, know, you Blight ly! They are always presumpt uous! Never does human intercourse descend so near to the Ufo In a tly tray as on Christmas. Everyone walka and crawls about all over every other one's head ! You have to git and beam and "ShmerrychrlB'muB' and 'No, I aald lt first!' And a bunch of obscuro cousins and aunts crowd in on the al ready perspiring mass and have to be kissed through veils-veils don't help much-perhaps a little! "Then comes that fiendishly pouder oufj Christmas dinner, with resurrec tion al intervals of tribal jests drag ged out of the family mausoleum for The Cost of AL . j^p|i^ Telephone Call. ,^^^\ \ Lt'"' I W, ?~*\ID you ever think Kow much it costs to give you ?J^p^rter1* , JL*/ the telephone right-of-way anywhere, at all times? ^s^ss?v?W ? ' f ? ^r?ur telephone instrument, which consists of 130 ^4J^HBT|jjr / "different parts, is only the entrance *vay to your share B||^^T^\jw/ of the vast equipment necessary in making a call. ? J^y?njj?! j? Your line is connected v-ith the great Bell highways, I y JsNfflT' M ?fcf^ching every state in the union-with its poles, copper I rsrLv lia vA*l wire, cross arms and insulators in the country; its under ly' P3Fltf^ ground conduits, manholes, cable vaults and cableo in the ^SfiH R1 ^'OU nave t^ie U8e ?* switchboards costing upwards of $100.000.000. You enjoy the benefits of countless in y^j^^Tl^*w ven tiona which make possible universal telephone talk. r|Wh|j^^^^??^. Your service is safeguarded by large forces of men fll?ft iffitlH building, testing and repairing lines. You command at (4MB ilssssK?Kvlft *^ times the prompt attention of one or more operators. GRSBo^U^ How can such a costly service be provided at rates feSa> ILA-S low that all can afford it? H FVfc?tSS?!( hy *te use uP?n ft share-and-share-*like basis by '"+f???nP^r?? miliion3 ?f subscribers, and by the most careful economy I ' -TP^J^- VW* ? construction and operation. A plant so vast gives ii ^ ~ v^rvv opporJturiity for ruinous extrtr?atfnnce; and judicious ^Mv^^&^N^Q-. orxaTiomy is as essential to its success as is die cc ^snv? im operative use ot the facilities provided.' ^SK^imS^\^|B] That the Bell System combines the maximum of ^K?'A1'{IMB???/ usefulness and economy is proved by the fact that nt jfijSy?j^lvJft. no other land and under no other management has W&r*lBHb/M&ffl) the telephone become such a servant of the masses. m ^^nsO^P SOUTHERN BELL TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH CO* Every Call x?e^ a Psir of VJt^'X^&?mJ?o to Si?m^^r^^A masy CaDs msy bc made or hemcvar far ggmrt SubsKyiber^ rusry be^j their annual gibbering, end the co quettlshness of brother*' wives, a>..d | the parading of tho dyspepsia of old Aunt'Clara, and thc dinky table fav ors, mostly receptacles for broken glass Christmas -andy, c inninply dis guished a3 snowballs. Santa Clauses and drums and young ducks, over which you are expected to giggle and squal, and eventually collect find take home with you and line up on the mantlepiece, where they stay for days until yon suddenly sweep them Into the Bcrap basket! There are 18 kinds of dessert you must sampta and wash down with cider, and get an y.wful stomachache. "Then you fatuously take turns at opening bundles, as you did when you were children. You have to pretend you have never seen your present be fore, when In real?ty it was shown to you weeks ago. But you Unwrap it with a beautiful aasumption ot inno cence, and a widening grin that almost makes your ears meet on top of your head when your enchanted gaze final ly rests on the novel you reid last summer! 'Just what I waiata''" ooooooooooooooooooo o o o GET ALL THE FUN YOU CAN o o OUT OF CHRISTMAS. o o - c o Get sil the fan yon can ont ot o o Christmas. Plunge Into the ?t- o o mosphere right away. Smuggle o o packages np and dawn stairs o and hide them in the **old fash? o o lonee''* hiding places, b o And remember everybody, nul o o with the snbstsatinl prevents o o roa have thonght lt Imperative o o to gfvfe hat with a Jar of Jelly, o o a pleee of frnlt cake or hook or o o magasine cover made from hits o o of linen your scrap hag has for- o o nlshed. a dainty sachet made o o fron? silk scraps or any one of e o o hundred other simple things yon o o can work on at edd times. These o o are the sort of presents which o o wfil restore the' old time thrills o o thst hnre been well nigh lost fa o o tie loveless gift giving of recent o O years. o 0 Teach yonr children that o e ChrMmast time U * srhrlnr tfme o o es well as a fretting time. Teach o o them part len In rly to think af e o children whose nests ere less o o dem than their e?n. Terrs srs s a ss ms wv s neb. And there ls o o more treffe thin? la e child's life o o than to he forgotten on Christmas o a day. fa there any pict ?re on earth o a se aaiteatlne- a? to see a child et . a a shop wfndov with only a win. o o dowpaae between his pinched o o nos? nnd pointlas; finger and a o o hlrh piled w?rld of dells ead e o drams ead skates sad pichare o o-hooks t Can yo? Imae-lne n hean* a s ar na nr. a more sorrowful thine, o . tfcna the nnnaswered prarer of a o e little child et Christmastide I o o o ooooooooooooooooooo Stop Worrying About That Christmas Present Decide on Something the Whole Family Will Enjoy Throughout The Year! ! Develop Your Children's Musical Appreciation With The New EDISON Diamond Disc Phonograph! PUT all the world's best music where they can hear it every day. A long program at a concert tires a youngster, but they all love to hear a little music at frequent intervals. Thus a real appreci ation is unconsciously acquired. No needles to change.-A permanent diamond is the reproducing point. The records are indestructible. Prices Range trom $60 to $250. REMOVAL PIANO SALE We will continue our cut prices on Pianos, Player-pianos and Organs until January 1st, 1915. These are genuine Removal Sale reductions on the highest quality instruments and you will never get another chance to buy a Piano or Player-Piano as cheap as you can now. \ C. A. Reed Piano & Organ Co. 115*117 N. Main Street, Anderson, S. C. 1 After Jan. 1st. 1915, S14 S. Morn St =--^