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NEW YORK, April C There's noth
ing like the right sort of background!
New York has been leoling lately
tnat It has just about had all It could
stand In the way of divorces and
Boandalft Generally. But along comes
n nan who sees the cheering sldo of
tho nhadowa. Ho wua ho impressed
that ho sat down and wrote to one
of the evening papers as follows
"Sir: Have been reading some of
tne recent divorce serials and have
(ij..l.0.i ..4 I a. 11 t oUC.i U i.d- fc.l'
after all."
ed ofr with the flashing of tho glass
pistol.
And now, after wearing choker
collars In order to have something on
which to fusten the straps that held
on one'e evening gown since tnert?
was nothing over the shoulders to
do it, the novelty seekers among Jio
costumeis have produced the frock
with no sleeves at all except cufff?.
yes, cuffs, way down around your
wrists, held to the shoulders by two
delicate strips of material. Yes. I saAV
hem.
Wall street and Its immediate en
virons may be the real financial ills
t'rict of this city, but there is no lit
tle speculation in foreign exchange
where one doesn't expect to find
anything but theater tickets to buy.
And Times Square has introduced
the new idea of buying money on the
installment plan, which is unusual, to
put it mildly. Austrian kronen, Ger
man marks, 'Russian rubles, and other
coins and paper moneys and securities
of foreign countries are being sold
in one corner store on a basis of
"$10,000 for f25 down" and weekly
jiayments thereafter. The placard ad
vising investment In thousands of Ku
Bian rubles ends with this hopeful re
inaik, --Bolshevism can't last loiover"
' "A Man About Town," which pre
cedes urinkwater's "Mary Stuart,"
recently opened at the new Hit
theater, is a panlotnlno which was
originally dovolopod within tho pre
cincts of tho Amateur Comedy club.
It Is an attempt to apply a very old
art to tho comedy Inherent in our
present day life, for tho panlomine
shows tho afternoon of a modern Now
York.
W. h. Hlnton, an automobile acces
sory manufacturer of Decatur, HI.,
was In town this week. Mr. Hlnton
was formerly a "chain store" grocer
in his homo town. Out he's off grocer
ies for life. "I used to ship carloads
of Barreled liesli vegetables, homo
mado cider vinegar, pickles and po
tatoes to tho Waldorf-Astoria," said
Mr. Hlnton. "People In those days de
manded their food in fresh, prime con
dition, and bought the food. A well
kept grocery of that period was a do
light, with Its fresh, bulk goods. The
average grocer today Is nearer a drug
gist. He hands you a capsule of crack
ers, a piece of art containing speci
mens of coffee, a pretty llttlo some
thing bearing a I'ulluufn car name and
tho allegation that it contains some
thing for breakfast, and a bewitching
pair of pickles bottled In and sealed.
And my. how the stuff coats! Farm
ers are quitting their garden., Garden
stuff would soil grocers' lunula. And
they must bo sold whon they are ripe.
We talco a look through tho Tuesday
livening Boast colored ads, and go to
the delicatessen for our dressed up
oatH. And bless your dear heart, we
pay!"
The very latest Indication of wealth
is the sterling silver door key. It
quite breaks Into ono's costume to
draw out an ugly brass key, and so
now tho whole gold or sliver key
chain full are of silver just as
pure. The jewelry and novelty shops
ure beginning to carry the Bllver
blanks and any locksmith can cut the
proper nicks Into them to fit tho lock.
The Best Big Sitter
If your clothes are not becoming
to you, you'd better be coming to us.
Modern Cleaners. W. R. "Webber,
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The Bett Bio Sitter
FARMERS DON'T CUT WHEAT
ACREAGE DE8PITE THREAT
By United Press
LINCOLN, Nebr., April 6 Farmers
of Nebraska failed to carry out the
threat made last year of reducing
wheat acreage because of tne low
prices, according to a statement to
day by Anderson of the federal bu
reau of crop estimates, showing that
winter wheat sown last fall was only
two percent less than that of a year
ago nnd far exceeds the 10-year aver
age. No wheat Is being plowed up, he
said, except that which was winter
killed or seriously damaged bv
drought. The percentage is very small
and occurred In western counties.
Tho autumn and winter were espe
cially favorable to wheat and present
condition Is good far above tho
average although a general rain
( WUUIU UQ UCllULlUltll.
j The Beit Bla Sister
i NO ROOM HERE FOR HALF-
BREED AMERICANS WOOD
By United Press
SAN FRANCISCO, April C "They
shall not pnss" was the answer glv-
I on by Major-Oonernl Leonard Wood
to 10,000 persons assembled here last
night under tho auspices of the Amor,
lean legion of San Francisco on "what
is Americanism."
"Americanism mouna a government
of law and order," Wood declarcl,
"and all those who ontor our gates
with the Insidious propaganda of so
vietlsm or its allied doctrines must
bo stopped and forced to drop tholr
double citizenship and take the oath
of allegiance to our Institutions, or
turn back to those lands where thev
came. Thero Is no room in this coun
try for half-breed Americanism."
The Bett Big Sitter
POLICE ARREST TWO MEN;
SEIZE LAUNCH AND LIQUOR
A man of the discreet age of 07
yours won't bo allowed In New York
City to adopt a young woman of 2d;
but she can, If shu fouls ho Inclined,
and If she marries first, adopt hi pi as
her son, Such is tho ruling of Surro
gate John P. Cohalan, who put his
Judicial Hoal of disapproval on thu pe
tition of Morbort N, Curtis to mako
Miss Mary Lois Fox his foster daugh
ter. When Mr. Curtis' plea had fulle;!,
Miss Fox altemptud to explain the sit
uation to the Jmlga once more. She
had known Mr. Curtis for a long time;
ho had been very good in helping her
make her way professionally, alto was
about to bo married; and she thought
it would bo nice to have him live with
them as a father. "Walt until you uro
married," said tho surrogate, "Thon
bring your husband around and I'll
let you adopt this old man as your
Hun If you like,"
By United News
SEATTLE, Wn April 6 Selling
the powor launch Oakland this after
noon police confiscated 14 cases ot
wine and whiskey and arrested two
mon. Thirty oiues of booEO were also
seized this afternoon by depulv jUer
Iffs after overtaking an auto on tho
highway, Tho liqum had been ttmug
gled across tho Canadian boundary.
The Bett Big Sitter
FIVE ALLEGED NARCOTIC
PEDDLERS ARE ARRESTED
By United News
SEATTLE, Wn., April 6 Flvo rtl
leged narcotic peddlers, four of them
Chinamen, wore In jail here tonight
i"j tho result of a drive on the drug
traffic here by federal officers, tin-
I dor Harry Smith, chief of tho nur
I colic unit fo the Pacific coast, A
1 special force of agents has been im
ported from California by Smith.
The Bett Big Sitter
GREAT BRITAIN IS
STORRS, MAN IN FATAL
CASE, MUST DO TIME
Class pistols are Now Yorkers' lat
est protection against hold-ups, The
law prevents them carrying flrtvan.ia
unless they have a permit, To a lot ot
people tho obtaining of a permit for
anything looks like a tremendous fuss
nnd bother; a good many more don't
know how to go about getting a per
mil, nor Indeed, that they are obtain
able at all, And another group Is inoro
afraid of a gun than of a gunman, So
thu glass pistol bus become the solu
tion. Like ueurbuur It looks real and
leola real, but It hasn't any kick. It
does have tho "authority," though,
that the uearbeer lacks, Juat so long
as tho thugs don't got ou to It. A
, Good doxeu men In tho city are already
credit lujc theuisolvotf with .one nick
in tho gltuvR one "atlck-up" mun scar
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by "Premier Lloyd Ueorge, in letter
to tho miners and owners.
In this letter he said the govern
ment tendered its good offices in .-in
endeavor to bring about an agreement.
By United Press
SEATTLE, Wash., April 6. Doug
las M. Storrs, former King county
deputy sheriff, who so Infatuated 18-year-old
Ruth Garrison that she pois
oned his wife nearly three years ago,
must, himself "do a. stretch" of five
years In the penitentiary.
Ttio supreme court yesterday final
ly affirmed tho conviction of Storrs.
He was tried In Okanogan county and
found guilty of seduction. The Garri
son girl has been in prison since her
trial for the murder of Mrs. Storrs,
serving an indeterminate sentence as
a criminally Insane person.
Three of the eight supreme justices
did not concur in the majority opinion
The Bett Big Sitter
STORY OF
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his plantation, now on trial 'for his
'life in the little red courthouse of
Newton county, is making his fight
with counter allegations of a conspir.
acy on the part jof enemies among his
neighbors.
Williams went on trial Tuesday be
fore a Jury composed of seven other
planters, two merchants, a barber, a
cleric and a druggist, the center of a
case that will become celebrated in
the history of Georgia. The prosecu
tion is out to "clear Georgia's good
name of the blot of peonage," as A.
Mi iGrant, assistant solicitor genera!,
declared in opening the case for the
state.
"We kill show the world that, Geor
gia does not sanction peonage," the
prosecutor said. "We must de.il
swift justice to the guilty..'-.
Surrounded by- guards, Williams en
tercd the court house only a few min
utes before court opened. Scattered
through the crowd were armed detec
tives prepared to pounce on anyone
who might make a break to defeat the
ends of justice. Guards also sur
rounded Clyde Manning, the negro
field foreman who confessed to be
ing the "Simon Legree" of the alleged
Stave farm and to finally killing or
participating in the killing of 11 ot
tho unfortunate negro workmen be
cause they "squealed" but who claim
ed it was all done under Williams' di
rection. iHundreds of farmers and villagers
burrounded the court house, unable
to wedge themselves into the court
room. '
Greene F. Johnson, self-styled "coup
try lawyer," chief counsel for Wil
liams, was the one who Indicated that
the conspiracy defense will be set up.
Williams has claimed evei since his
arrest that a neighbor family with
which his own family had a rural feud,
was at the bottom of the charges
against him. Johnson said he would
call SO witnesses to show that3 some
of Williams' enemies were trying to
railroad him.
The state will call 40 witnesses in
an effort to convince the jury that
Williams not only purchased negro
prisoners from Jail by paying insig
nificant fines but held them in peon
age and when they complained to
the authorities, ruthlessly caused
(hem to be murdered.
Tho trial adjourned prematurely to
ponnit the defense vto ascertain from
Gov. Dorsey, by telephone from At
lanta, who wore the citizens who took
such an Interest that they retained
former Congressman W. M. 'Howard,
of Augustu, to uid the state, and E.
Marvin Underwood, a noted attorney,
to represent Clydo Manning.
The governor announced thnt the
citizens in question were C. 'B. Wil
nier nnd Ashby Ones of Atlanta,
The Bett Big Sitter
BOOTLEGGERS SENT
LONDON, April C British trans
port workers today voted to. support
sulking coal miners "In every way
possible."
The form of action to be taken
wua left for decision after railway
workers determine their attitude In
the labor tight.
Thu transport worker asked fir
conferences with two other group to
decide on united ucttou cf the "triple
alliance."
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three-weeks stay on the place, and
that during this time ho expected to
find tho still, even if he had to tear
down th house, piece by ploco.
This was the straw that broke the
backbone of Belland's resistance.
He then led theollce to a cleverly
concealed trap door, beneath a stair
"way. Opened, this trap door dis
closed a concrete basement, directly
in the center of the house, In which
A' perfect copper still was set up. In
;? corner, 10 gallons of the finished (
product, corn whiskey, was standing. I
In another corner utood six 60-gallon
barrels, three of which were filled"!
with corn mash.
The basement was a regular
"bootlegger's paradise," according to j
Chrisman. Nothing necessary for the'
manufacture of moonshine whiskey
had been neglected, even to having!
running water piped in for cooling
the copper coil.
Taken before Justice of the Peace '
J. W. Allen this morning, Belland;
entered a plea of guilty and was;
sentenced to serve six months in thej
county Jail and pay a fine of $500. j
He told the court that it was the,
first time that he had eveu, beenj
caught, and that he would like veryi
much to be let off with a fine, with-1
out the Jail sentence. Justice Allen
replied that Belland had been gamb-.
ling with the state and had lost, and
that the state now insisted upon col
lecting the full stakes, as prescribed'
by law.
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SPRINGTIME AGAIN! AND SPRINGTIME MEANS
BRIGHTENING UP INSIDE THE HOME AS WELL AS OUT.
Look first to your Windows, for they are part of both the inside and out
side of your home. The brightening-up you do there does double double duty.
We have instituted HOME CRAFT WEEK, so you may see for yourself all
the newest and most beautiful drapery materials for your windows.
We will gladly be of assistance to you in sug
gesting or helping you in any way to make
your selections.
Quaker Craft
Window Nets
Are the best because they, wear longer than
ordinary nets. They cqme in a multitude of
new designs in Cream, White and Eeru, from
36 to 44 inches wide. You'll find it interesting
to note the new low prices prevailing on all
these lovely nets.
39c, 48c, 69c, 89c, 98c, $1.25 yard
CURTAINS
Scrim Curtains are always practical as well as good looking.
New spring assortments range
$2.25 to $4.00 pair
Lace Curtains, full sized and extra good qualities plenty of style.
$2.50, $3.50, $3.98, $5.25 pair
mmrK
. Sun Fast Drapes
LQvVKLY. NEW SCOTCH- IMPORTED vSUNFAST MADRAS CLOTHS.
Rich. Qee'rl colorings. '48 ln6hes wide. See these sure.
yard $2.75
SCOTCH MADRAS CLOTHS in natural colors, with neat colored
designs for dainty drapes, full 36 inches wide. -Pino for Bed. Room
Drapes. , '
Yard 59c
DOMESTIC MADRAS DRAPERIES in beautiful color tones, and
Mercerized finish. Very pretty and very practical.
Per yard $1.19 to $1.69
GLACE SILK DRAPES in beautiful Browns, Mulberry and Blue
tones, also good effects. Vory handsqme for living room and hall
draping. Extra wide widths.
Per yard $3i95
KAPOC STRIPE SILK CASEMENT DRAPERY in Blue and Gold
and Mulberry effects. Very, attractive hanglpgs.
Per yard $4.39 .
PLAIN S UNFA ST AND STRIPE NOVELTY DRAPERY CLOTH in
Blues, Browns, Gold and Rose, extra wide.
Per yard $1.69 and $1.98
SILK POPLIN GLACE FOR SIDE DRAPES are always beautiful.
Come In changeable combinations. Pall, yard wwWfc.
Per yard $1.89 '
HANDSOME TAPESTRIES, for every purpose. See our elegant
Qualities in extra wide and ftno qualities at
$5.00, $6.50 and $7.00 yard
Other Upholstery materials l: Brocadesl Reps, etc., in beautiful
color combinations.
CURTAIN SCRIMS AND MARQUISETTES
The best values you'll say are here. We haTe them in Ivory,
Ecru and White with plain edge or faacy bordera Us easy to
select from our large Btock Juat the quality yoa desire and tn,e
prices are much lower.
15c, 19c, 25c, 35c, 39c, 50c, 59c pr yard
Do you know we carry sm excellent assortmest of wjadow cur
tain taces? Edgings. Fringe., BraMs. to match ear Net.. Scrim, aad
Cretonnes? Just ask about thess ext time you are ia.
Cretonnes
What could be better
for Spring and Sum
mer drapes. The new
Spring designs are,
lovelier than ever
and are so much
more reasonable in
price. This week we
have great quantities
on display to give
you an idea how at
tractive you can
drape any room in
your Jiomes. Price
range
19c. 25c, 35c, 49c, 59c
75c up to $1.35 yd.
Cretonnes are also very
popular for making qp these
new aprons, also can be
used for hundreds ot other
useful purposes.
KIRSH RODS
Are the best, all sizes
and styles on hand.
Curtain Poles, Brack
ets and fixtures of all
kinds at lowest prices.
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