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A HAPPY NEW YEAR To All Our Customers ■ CARROLL <2b BYERS 804-806 LIMESTONE STREET CARROLL <Sb BYERS 'HL'UhZlhZf^'Uh'Uh'Uh'U**. y -to- v V Everyone Who Reads This V We wisli to oxtend to you our best wishes for a Happy aud Prosperous Now Year, and we sincerely thank you for the business you have given us in the past, and if fair treatment and full value for your money count for anything, we will expect a large business from you in the future. "We look very closely after our buying and gePthe bery best values on the market that spot cash will buy., Then we sell it close, therefore, giving our customers full value for their money. We sell the celebrated L E D E R STOVES, MATCHLESS -RANGES, OSTEMOOR,” “DEX TER” and “PURITY” FELT MATTRESSES, Fea ther Beds aud Pillows, the VICTOR SPRINGS and “IDEAL” IRON BEDS, and a full line of all kinds of Furniture. Those who have not already gotten one will call ^ * and get a nice Calendar for 1907 while they last. ju * Yours to please, gShuford & ' “ | m FURNITURE, STOVES, UNDERTAKING. £ K WE* If WHO GETS THE GIFTS ? No. 1282 Gets the $25.00 Gift No. 381 Gets the $12.50 Gift No. 1095 Gets the Doll. Parties holding these numbers will please come and get what is coming to then\ If numbers are not presented in a short time a second drawing will be made. The Gaffney Jewelry Co. Fourth Quarterly Interest Ending January 1st, 1907 Is now credited on all accounts of THE 6AFFNEY SAVINGS BANK Wishing you a prosperous New Year, and soliciting your future fa vors, we are D. C. ROSS, muziPrMt. Yours truly, J. A. CARROLL,^'JAYDARD SMYTH, % r NK V..PrMl.2IZIiSNBH^Caslil«r. BRINGING UP GIRLS. Freer Lives Led by English Young Women Have Banished Hy«tBrl». (New York Sun.) Here is a tribute the wisdom of the modern ideas on the upbringing of girls. It is the professional opin ion of an English physician, writing in The Medical Brief on the subject of hysteria. Hysteria is the generic name ap plied to some of the most baffling, as well as most interesting cases, with which physicians have to deal; cases which produce what might ho called phenomena of the nervous system, morbid and abnormal nianifestaUons which have been and are being stud ied by medical men everywhere. A nation whose women are inclined to develop hysteria is be pitied. One whose women are conspicuously free from the tendency is to be imitat ed. The physician referred to above after noting the fact that hysterian is less common in England now than it was a generation ago declares that much stress must be laid on the de fective education and upbringing of English girls 25 or 30 years ago. They wore allowed but little free dom of thought or action and were kept closely tied to their mother’s apron strings. The mother was a well meaning person, but she bad but little initiative and was hidebound by convention. She was orthodox but her ortho doxy was that of her mother, sup plemented by the teaching of the vil lage parson. This degeneracy reached its highest i>oint in the cathedral towns of Great Britin. iA quarter of a century has marked a great change in this respect and has been concurrent with an increas ed robustness of health of our girls. They are stronger now physically, mentally and morally. The advent of bicycling and motor ing and especially of greater facili ties for traveling in foreign countries has had much to do with this, < hlefly by permitting a more vigoepub and intimate social intercourse between young men and women. The girl of today dictates the po licy of her mother and with a health ier outdoor existence there are fewer of the factors which tend to make for hysteria and its attendant evils. It is comparatively rare nowadays to meet with a neurotic English girl, and the most typical and exaggerat ed form of the disease must be sought among the Latin races. Then H© Woke Up. (Chicago News.) “I never was much give to flirta tion,” said the travelling man, "but I had a narrow escape last summer from falling from grace. "1 was riding from Hannibal, Mo., to Springfield, 111., on a Wabash train. I sat next to the window on the right side of the car, no one sharing my seat. Across the aisle from me sat two women. The one next to the window was a good looking person, with a blue silk gown and a oleasant facial expression. Once as she look ed at me I detected a distinctly friendly twinkle in her eyos. I was astonished. But not fatally. A man’s egotism will never let him feel wholly surprised when a woman shows signs of being pleased with him. “I thought at last I have found someone who detects a good thing at first sight without the necessity of any of the preliminary stages of ac quaintance. The next tinve I looked her way—which wasn t long—there was a friendly twinkle in my own eyes, in response to which a sugges tion of a smile visited the corners of the woman’s well-shaped mouth. "I sat up, fixed my coat collar so it set just right, adjusted my four-in- hand and tried to look unconcerned. Within five minutes that strange pei^ s^-i and I were smiling at each oth- er like old acquaintances. “About this time a tall lanky per son walked Into the car, spoke a word to the woman accompanying the one of friendly provlivities, and ttHfi sat down beside me. We drift ed into conversation with the free masonry of Involuntary seatmates. f ‘Soon he said: Tm the sheriff of this county. I’ve got a couple of crazy women takln’ ’em to the ’sy- lum. You wouldn’t even know they was crazy, neither. That woman over there with the blue dress is one of ’em.’ “Well, I’ve known some keen hu miliations in my life, but that was a trifle the keenest. Growth of Bank Deposit*. (Americap Banker.) It has been estimated, from reports received by the Comptroller at Wash ington, that over $12,196,029,486 is on deposit with banks throughout the United States. This makes an aver age of about $110 for every man, wo man and child, a sum which adiounts to about seven times the sum of our national indebtedness. It has been nearly trebled in the past ten years, the amount on deposit in 1896 being $4,945,124,423. The Southren and Western States show the greatest percentage of In crease, while the Eastern States aver age the greatest actual wealth. These figures comprise only the to tals from the States. The islands add very materially to the sum with a total of deposits in State, private and national banks of ^Ifi,738,180. In 1900, which was the first report re ceived from their banks by Washing ton, the Indivldua deposits totalled only $3,069,174. In the following four years they increased to $19,287 669, and although they fell off during 1905 to the extent of about $2,000,000, they have reoovere '’ that lose and more in this year’s showing. Un doubted!” the invasion of American capital is responsible to a great meas ure for the amazing rise in the de posit figures hut this argues advance f the people, and must be of great advantage to all lines of industry aside from banking itself. Counting our Island, therefore, our individual deposits amount to the amazing sum of $12,215,767,666. The average amount of currency per cap ita amounts to $33.08. Had we a proper scientific currency and a se cure form of bank government be hind this vast credit system the out look would be immeasurable. Credit Is an excellent thing, but It must be securely foundeu to endure. Satisfied Them All. (Youth’s Companion.) Aunt Panthea Brooks lived in a Ut- the New Hampshire village very many years without quarreling with anyone, and was so thoroughly liked by everyone for miles round that her popularity excited the Interest of a summer visitor. “Aunt Panthea,” he asked, “how is It that you keep on such good terms with everyone, while they are all quarreling among themselves?" , "Well," said* Aunt Panthea. "being as you aren’t to stay here long I’ll tell you. When I go down the street I meet Jason Purdy and he says ‘Why Panthea, how well you look!" “ ‘I’m glad you think so. Jason,’ 1 say. smiling at him. “Next minute up come Ezry Drik cut “ ‘Well, now, Panthea,’ he says, 'how porely you are looking this year.’ “ ‘My land, Exry,’ I *ay, ‘how quick you are to notice those things 1’ “So It is with everything. Those who like to think one thing, I let ’em think iL and those who like to think the other, I let ’em think it” Who can deny that Aunt Panthea had discovered a comfortable phi losophy of life? Publish the Prices. (From the Beaufort Gazette.) The board of directors of the State dispensary has just published what purports to be a list of purchases at its last meeting. It would be Interest ing to know whether this Is a true re port or whether It Is as deceptive as those sent out last spring. At that time the actual purchase was very much larger than the figures given ouL The question of what price is being paid for the liquor and supplies Is even more Important than the quan tity bought. Nothing is said in the re port before us about the prices paid thirty of the thirty-five varieties list ed. Why not? Much of the liquor purchased by the last board was of popular brands at preposterously high prices. But the public did not know It until after the Investigating commit tee had dug out the facts. For In stance, “Old Joe,” that was being sold to barkeepers In Atlanta for $28 per case by the single case, was being bought by the State board by the car load for $36 per case. If the taxpay ers had known these facts It could not have continued. It is probable that If the board had known that the terms of all contracts would be published. It would not have dared to have paid the outrageous prices it did. Publicity is a safeguard that the people should Insist upon. This Space Belongs To W. C. Carpenter A Turkey Dinner makes you forget the cares of work and worry, but it is not complete without other dainties, such as Fruit Cake, Pound Cake, Mince Pies, etc., etc., and I have a full supply of such things £8 you need. Also seeded Raisins, Citron, Currants, i < Orange and Lemon Peel to make your own Cakes and Raisins, Nuts, Candies, Oranges, Lemons, Grapes, Apples, Bananas, Raisins, Coffees, Sugars of all kinds, Mince Meat, Cakes, Crack- •* .j** ers, fresh Oysters, California Fruits, Canned and Evaporated Olives, Pickles, etc., etc. Try Heinz’s Dill Pickles and Moun« tain Buckwheat and pure New Orleans Molasses. Come and see me F. Bee Gaffney. i] i it How She Accept* a Compliment. (Philadelphia Press.) It is the way a woman takes a com pliment that stamps her place In so ciety. A blush denotes the debutante. A giggle, the silly unsophisticated. A brusque protest, the sensible but unpolished. 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