North Carolina Newspapers

PAGE FOUR Tfie Concord Daily Tribune gs J. B. SHERRILL SL: ! Editor and Publisher M W. M. SHERRILL, Associate Editor it ; ■f MEMBER OP THE J ■ - ASSOCIATED PRESS I S' The Associated Press is exclusively I'; entitled to the use for republication of 2 , all news credited to it or not otherwise . . efttfited in this paper and also the lo * eiT news published herein. A ■ All rights of republication of spec * ial dispatches herein are also reserved. Special Representative f FROST, LANDIS A KOHN j, 225 Fifth Avenue, New York i Peoples’ Gas Building, Chicago £ > 1004 Candler Building, Atlanta if Entered as second class mail matter * at-the postoffice at Concord, N. C., un- J der the Act of March 3, 1879. * SUBSCRIPTION RATES 1 In the City of Concord by Carrier: . One Tear $6.00 . ■ Six Months 3.00 V Three Months _■ 1.50 * One Month .50 “ ' Outside of the State the Subscription J' Is the Same as in the City „ . Out of the city and by mail in North . Carolina the following prices will pre . vail: » One Year $5.00 » ■ Six Months 2.50 * * Three Months 1.25 * 1 Less Thau Three Months, 50 Cents a Month J . All Subscriptions Must Be Paid in Advance *' RAILROAD SCHEDULE . . In Effect Nov. 29, 1925. * Northbound * No. 40 To New York 9:2S P. M. " No. 136 To Washington 5:05 A. M. ’ No. 36 To New York 10:25 A. M. , No; ‘34 To New York 4 :43 P. M. * No. 46 To Danville 3:15 P. M. . No. 12 To Richmond 7:10 P. M. « , No. 32 To New York 9 :03 I*. M. ? No. 30 To New York 1:55 A. M. Southbound No. 45 To Chirlotte 3:55 P. M. '* No. 35 To New Orleans 9:56 P. M. No, 29 To Birmingham 2 :35 A. M. ~ No. 31 To Augusta 5:51 A. M. „ No. 33 To New Orleans 8 :25 A. M. w No. ll„To Charlotte 8:05 A. M. * No. 135 To Atlanta 8:35 P. M. f. No. 39 To Atlanta 9:50 A. M. •- No, ,37 To New Orleans 10:45 A. M. *• Train No. 34 will stop in Concord to take on passengers going to Wash- j *■' Ingten and beyond. Train No. 37 will stop here to dis „ eharge passengers coming from be yond Washington. *•* All trains stop in Concord except r No. 38 northbound. f J^BIBI?THOUGHT| ; I M FOR TODAY— II Bible Thoughts memorized, will prove « e JPI nriceleaß heritage in after years 3 ’ GOD LOVES THE GOOD—Truly l God is good to Israel, even to such as i are of a clean heart.—Psalm 73:1. ■■■ i -!-!L— I “TELL THE WORLD.” ] Cotton milts amT other industries of ' the Piedmont section can aid wonder fully in advertising this section to the thousands of visitors who are com- < ing through here, by the erection of 1 signboards carrying their names and v* telling what they make. Very few of the industries of this section are 1 placarded in any way. shape or form. 1 and not even the natives are able to ! T, distinguish some of them. It would , V enhance the textile prestige of the section greatly if the mills would make a display of their names and in- , form the public of the nature of their . products. One of the interesUng ] phases of such a trip as from Phila- i delphia to New York is to read the , names of factories and see where * products that are used in everyday > life are made. But such a pleasure ; is denied passers-by in this section. : and as a result much favorable pub- 1 licity is lost. Here is an idea that i may well be exploited by the Chain- 1 hers of Commerce of th : s section. Let's < tell the world what we are doing. The ( information will be cheerfully receiv- 1 eed.—Greenville. 8. C.. News. The Cannon Manufacturing Com- \ pany at Kannapolis is one of the few ( mills in this section that carries any ] sort of sign to tell its history. The < idea as expressed by The News is ' worthy of cons : deration. 1 WHAT WE PAY TO OPERATE ( AUTOMOBILES. There seems to be at least one sort 1 of taxation that doesn’t make any body mad —taxes on autos and gaso lene. Jjorth Carolina’s nearly 400,000 au tomobile owners paid the state of North Carolina more than eleven mil lion dollars for the privilege of oper ating their vehicles in the state dur ing 1025. Figures released by the department of revenue placed the total yield from the gasoline tax, automobile licenses and title registration at $11,647,224. an increase of more than $2,200,000 over 1024. The gasoline tax yielded $6,080,046.08, automobile licenses $5,- 413.407.02. and title registrations $721,023.63. Aside from the maintenance expense of the automobile bureau, which eap not exceed four per cent., the total yield from these sources goes for highway building a part into the sink ing fund for retirement of state high way bonds and the remainder for road maintenance. At the present rate of increase we are going to have more money for roads than we ever dreamed of and the result will be more roads. We v are’ raising more than enough money > ea£b pay the interest on the rojjpl bonds and create a sinking fund, so it is but natural to presume that ofj fej Nfcjte will not stop Ux'irMil program i&ftil every.priia-i --pal road in tie state is bard-surfaml. 9Pbe more roads we improve the more gasoline tax money we receive’ for tbe good roads are incentives to ride and when riding is done tbe State' fejtiW its part of tbe costs. ' , DO WE WANT PROHIBITION* In his charge to the Cabarrus Coun ty Grand Jury this week Judge Bry ; son said prohibition will become a i reality when the people want it to. ! Persons must not only observe tbe law, they must report the man who does not obey it if prohibition is to be effective, said Judge Bryson. From the New York Herald Tribune we learn that New Ygar’s Eve, the chief night of frivolity in our largest city, was enjoyed with the usual amount of liquor. “The 150 prohibition agents sent out last night to make this a dry New Year's Eve were brought back on their shields,” says The Herald Tribune. The cabarets, night clubs and other places of congregation were crowded and most of the visitors brought their liquor with them. “To have brought in the thousands who bulged at the I hips would have called for a hundred I times as many officials as were out' last night,” says the newspaper. But there were thousands of peo-! pie who held New Year parties in ■ their homes and apartments because of fear of raids by prohibition agents and the dislike of being gouged by cabarets where “cover chaises’* ran from $lO to sls per person. Gould the law have been enforced had there been 15,000 dry agents? Can two or three million people in a city be denied liquor if they want it? Could the courts have handled the | cases if all the violators had been ar rested? The dry laws will become a fact j only when a majority of the people ! respect them. No numbers of dry I agents could stop the traffic in New York or any other city so long as the people were against them. We do i not hesitate to report the man who [steals, yet it is hard to find a man ! who will report a bootlegger. OVER-PLAYED THE PARTS. * j jjStatesville Daily. The Iredell man who held up citi zens on the highway and at the point 1 of a revolver compelled them to drink with him in celebration of the holi day season, overplayed the generous act, as lie now no doubt realizes, and j of which he will be fully convinced before the completion of hie six j mouth*’ road service, if he endures ; to the end. The punishment is by no j means excessive. There was transpor tation internally and externally, which is a serious count if prohibi tion laws are accepted at face value. Then there was boisterous and pro fane language, constituting a public nuisance, with drunkenness on the highway as a probable separate of feee. Carrying a weapon concealed — I part of the time, it is supposed. The 1 other portion of the celebration period lie was waving the shooting tool as a mean* of intimidation. Pointing a weapon at those with \ whom he came in contact and threat ening to lire, was a serious part of the act that might have been con- j verted into a tragedy/ Forcing per- i sons he met to partake of his cheer j may have been an excess’ of hospi- j tality. but it was a little too ex- i trenie. Even if one was not averse to j imbibing under proper conditions, he J would prefer to choose the time and j place, and especially the company, j Forcing one to drink bootleg stuff} could easily be construed us an as- j sault with attempt to kill, fur one has no assurance what the bootleg I truck will do to him. Then there was | driving a car while drunk. This is ordinarily accounted of small con sequence. if the judgment of the j average court on such offenders be accepted asthe measure of the of- ! fence. But this Iredell celebrator j mixed too many other things with ! that, and it was his undoing. If the ; court had desired to be real severe • enough separate cases could have j been made to send him to the roads for six years. Six months is suffi cient if he offender and his friends will keep in mind that he has re ceived about the minimum of what might have been given him. In the old days, when the sale of the stimlilant wa«* authorized, the drunk man’s vagaries were excused in part on the ground that he was overtaken in fault, had no real purpose to j creaate a disturbance. But under 1 present conditions the offending of i the drinker is deliberate and pre- i meditated. He begin* by violating the I law in buying the liquor. He goes out ! ami looks for the bootlegger. As a j rule the bootlegger doesn’t look up the buyer unless he has reason to be- J lieve the buyer is in the market. 1 Therefore the consumer’s offending is. as a rule, as premeditated as the l seller’s- The Opening of a New Field. I The selection of Lieuterifel Colonel .Clarence O. Sherrill, of the corps of engineers, United States army, to be the first city manager of Cincinnati suggests that a new and very promis ing field may soon be open to the com petent and very highly trained men who fild in the “service” limited op portunities •’ for usefulness and indi vidual advancement. The Dearborn Independent has pre viously stated that in the formative period of this country, army engineers i Avere the pioneer roadbuilders. railroad | builders, constructors and that, they developed and improved the , inland waterways. For nearly -a century the Military Academy at West Poin{ has been training young men in all branches of engineering. They enter the mil itary service more rapidly than places can be made for them and their pro motion is necessarily slow. Many of them have, after a few years in the “service,” resigned to engage in civilian occupations. Caring for the physical needs of the city of Washington is the job at which Colonel Sherrill distinguished himself. AndfhisU training as been entirely mn-poli ticket he f ; fcj*feL!*tf*at cities need. Perhaps other *UWwill consider engaging the services of such . men, 4ind West Point and Foe corps of engineers are training a class of J men who could scarcely find more uue * ful employment. POSTAL SERVICE EXPANDS FIVE-FOLD . By Harry S. New. Postinasrcr-Gen eral of the United States. Reviews of Reviews. ’ I doubt if there is anywhere so good an index to the growth and de • vclopmeut of the United States as that furnished by the post office. Oue hundred and fifty years ago, 1 under Benjamin Franklin, a courier carrjed in the saddle-bags across his horse all the mail that passed within the week between Boston. ;**ew York, and Philadelphia. This service was in existence for mouths before it was decided that the distance to be traveled, and the atrociously bad con dition of the roaods. required that a carrier should start twicp a week in stead of at weekly intervals. Today there are more than 25.000 men employed in handling the mallei in the offices of the three cities named, not counting tnooc *»t inter vening points or railway mail clerks; j and there are 1490 railroad trains ; carrying mails into and out of their , railway stations every day, many of them limited exclusively to mail mat j ter.* There are more than 155 car loads of mail now sent out of Chica go alone- The four years of John Wana maker’s services as Postmaster Gen eral record one of the outstanding business administrations of the Post Office Department: and yet the largest amount of money appropriat ed by Congress for the service of the post office in any one of those four • years was $78,128,913.08, in 1892. ! For the first year of the Tweutietn ; Century, 1901. in McKinley’s time, the post office cost the Government [ $115,554,920.87. From the present | Congress it asks for the next year— i and the Director of the Budget has (approved— the sum of $736,000,000. In 1901 the total revenues were $111,631,193.39. For the current year there is every indication that they will exceed $665,000,000. Last year a single firm paid for postage $9,200,000. while several others paid in excess 0f52,000.000 each- In 1901 there were 4301 rural i routes, which in twenty-thro >ears' have been more than ten times multl -1 plied, for there are now 45.191 of ' t hem. There are now well over 46,000 j city carriers, whereas twenty-five years ago there were but 16.000, and 65,000 clerks compared to less than 17.000 in 1901. I Every house built in the United ; States adds to the burden or the I postal business, for somehow or -somewhere its occupants must be ! served, and within the first quarter of the Twentieth Century the busi ness of the Department has grown 487 per cent. In 1901 we had parcel-post con ventions with but 20 countries, and now we have them with 70. We had money-order conventions with 42 countries, and now have them with I 70. The postal business grows with every day that passes. It will never again be as small as it was yester day. and its marvelous growth tells ! a story of progress in the United ; States that is unequaled. [ Mussolini’s “Intellectual” Empire. i New York World. ! The World learned first, a week or iso ago, that, Signor Mussolini has treasured plans for declaring Italy jan empire; then it was told. by Fascist Deputies in Rome, that Sig ! nor Mussolini’s conception of an Im perial Italy is “simply an intel i lectual attitude.” that it does not contemplate fresh foreign conquests, ' and that is simply recognizes the • necessity, for Italy, “of peaceful i penetration in the world, an exten sion of its power and intellectual ! and moral prestige beyond its frontiers.” I This explanation does not satisfy : the Paris Temps. Tlie Temp* is pre | pared to believe that Mussolini is j starting out with an empire which is ! “an intellectual attitude” and noth i ing more; but the Temps asks whether, having started. Mussolini cun stop there. For fascism, as the Temps points out. is essentially a combative vreed and can only main tain itself by constantly setting new goals of action. “'Tlie day its program is realized the day when there will bo no further struggles to face, it will disintegrate because it will have lost the reason for its ixistense.” ; Now. with Fascism sufficiently on | top, Mi Italy to have beaten all op j position to the ground through sheer j physical strengh. and with opposi tion of some sort as neeensary to | Fascism as salt water is to codfish, [it is a logical sequence of events. the Temps believes, for Fascism to 18° adventuring abroad- This ad veil ! ttiring may begin with a state of inind and an intellectual attitude: but it can quite possibly end in set ing a new goal for physical action and that goal may be nothing less, in | the words of the Temps, than “ab solute mastery of the Mediterran ean.” For os in America Mussolini's idea of “peaceful penetration” and an intellectual” empire may mean only an appeal for a divided loyalty on the part of Italian-Americalis. For France it may turn out to be a much more difficult matter. Both iu America and in Europe the “musical saw” is the latest popu ’ar fancy of the* jazz orchestras. The idea of extracting music from i such a harsh medium as an ordi nary wood saw is said to have origi ■ nated over thirty years ago in Argentina. There a drunken violinist playing in a lumbermens camp stupidly selected a saw and. placing the handle under his chin, drew his bow across its smooth edge. Muddle headed as he was, ht was sober enough to appreciate that tue freak instrument possessed definite musical properties. Rectntly the idea Ims been revived and now it is not un common for musicians of high repu tation to demonstrate their genius by playiug on the “musical saw.” Falling iu low wftli vdicoe is not allowed in Chiba/ Tbe telephone com pany in Hong Kong has recently is sued a notice which says that Chilled subscribers who birt over the wires withthe telephont girta more than three times will have tbeir cut off ag a penalty. ) THE CONCORD DAILY TRIBUNE !STRANGE BLASTS SHAKE ASHEBORO People Unable to Discover Source of Explosion; Caused Much Excite ment. | Asheboro, Jan. 4.—The town of Asheboro a few days ago was shaken • by the force of two mysterious ex-, plosions, cue of which occurred about ' D o’clock and the other in the neigh ' borhood of 1 o'clock. Both explo i sions brought people from their homes out into the streets and both caused no little excitement. Practically ev ery person who Ueard the explosions was sure that the blasts were near; his home, but investigation disclosed 1 the scene of no explosion and the 1 people are yet ignorant of the place j of the occurrence. Both of the explosions caused prop-1 erty damage, breaking out window panes in a number of homes and i cracking the plaster in others. The, force of one of the explosions broke j out panes of glass in the court house and caused several square yards of plaster to fall from the ceiling to the floor in the solicitor's room. The explosions were similar to that which occurred last February. It broke out several window panes in the homes in town and caused no end of excitement. Several days after that explosion the place of occurrence was located just outside the wester/i corporate 'limits of Asheboro. There is considerable speculation over those which occurred Christmas night. Some are of the opinion that dynamite was used while other claim that it was a more powerful explo sive. Whatever was used and by whom, the explosions were of such ja serious nature as to cause people worry. v Hundreds of citizens of the town in addition to the officers of the law would like to know who is setting off the blasts. The explosion several months ago was set down as being done by some person for a practical joke, although a number of people were unable to see any joking mat ter about it. This time, however, nobody has any inclination to put the matter down as a practical joke. There may be no danger to human life because of the remote spots se lected for the blasts, but there is dan ger to property and actual damage done to it. This is not taking in consideration the fright which it gives to the population which has no way of knowing when and where the next explosion may take place. PENALTY FOR PRODUCTION, Raleigh News and Observer. North Carolina farmers produced more than S(KMK)O.(HM) pounds of cotton and more than 300,(XX),000 pounds of tobacco last year, which is an enormous quantity of raw material. These farmers did their part nobly in raising staple crops in spite of diffi culties. What was the result? The prices were depressed and instead of making money many actually lost mon ey because of the big crops. To be penalized fro producing ma terials that are staple is n<» new ex perience for farmers. If prices are high, the crops are short: if crops''are bountiful, the prices low. What is the remedy? The one usually sug gested is J to diversify, and it is a sound one. Unfortunately, it is eas ier to prescribe than it is to apply. Advice is the cheapest commodity in ( the market for farmers. They get ad vice without money and without price. No man is so complete a failure in ! life that he does not feel free to ad vise the farmers. ■ \ Unless diversification is done intel ligently. It will not solve the problem | of the farmers. In these days of iitl- | proved transportation, there is ii) i*va- ' son in the world why farmers ought ( not to specialize in the raising of those things that they can produce most eco nomically on their farms. No more reason than why manufacturers Humid not stick to specialized lines in the operation of factories. As advantageous as diversification | is, it is well to remember that the | biggest problem the farmer faces is i that he is doing business in an organ ized world of business to which he comes as an individual trader. Not only as an individual trader but also in which the system of credit is or ganized primarily to care for the needs of business. It is true that 1 steps' arc being taken to give th*f farmer a chance to secure some of the advantages of collective selling in a world of organized buying and to adapt the system of banking credit to his needs, but this is a long pro cess of education that is most difficult to carry out. It is a problem' that must have the sympathetic co-opera tion ofliiany interests. ATLANTIC AND YADKIN DECISION IS DUE SOON Judge Webb Indicates It May Be Handed Down in Two Weeks. Charlotte, Jan. 4.—A decision on 1 the motion of the Southern Railway 1 Company to dismiss the suit brought ! by the State of North Carolina s»*ek- ' ing to prevept tbe Atlantic and Y'ad- , kin railroad, when it is sold under ( receivership proceedings, may be : •landed down within two weeks. This was indicated by Judge E. , Yates Webb, of Shelby, who convened the January term of federal district ( court here today. The briefs filed by lawyers were voluminous and I supreme court decision were cited, I all of which required a long time to j study, Judge Webb said. | The Southern Railway contends that the iwues in the suit had been settled at a former trial and that 1 the court had no jurisdiction in the The first regularly organised wo man’s club in tht United Staten, with a written constitution and by laws. a motto, Bu<l with reguliirl parliamentary linage, wan the Miner va Club, wbieh wuh orgunixed at New Harmony, 1m1... in 1H59 by Const***, Fauut Le ; Roy,, gruiitb tin tighter lift Robert Owen, who founded the socmliatie colony at New Harmony. With nearly 522.000 visitors, more people visited the British Natural History Museum last year than any )ear since 1820. ■ » 4Mfc'&obbed Hafr' Ijf * oauuM mvtoav rrowt by 5 W ■. TWENTY FAMOUS AUTHORS - A 8 Copyright 1954-2E, P. F. Collier & Son Co. and <3. P. Putnam'* Sons I 1 “BOBBED HAIB” with Marie Prevost Is a pirturffcatlon of this story by V Warner Bros. Pletnres, lie. , SYNOPSIS Rather than announce her engage ment, Connemara Moore stole away : from Aunt Celimena's Connecticut home last night. None, in the morning, she finds herself in David Lacy's farm j house, on Long Island. With her is Sneeetie, a mysterious girl nehom she I met aboard a yacht. The girls are j discussing their terrifying adventures ' when there appears suddenly Aunt ; Celimena herself, accompanied by her lawyer, Brewster. Their escort is La 'S- CHAPTER XV—Continued The Swede and his gang had tak en prompt warning by the flight of Lacy and Sweetie, and had decamp ed for parts unknown—apparently taking Saltonstall Adams along, aqd leaving no addresses behind theft. Lacy and the lawyer carried the burden of tattered silks and shatter ! pd nerves that was Aunt Celimena into the house and upstairs to Miss Liddy’s room, where they deposited it gently on the bed to the tune of its own grunts and groans deliver ed in perfect jazz time. Connemara and her prospective maid, hearing them on the stairs, and not being able to think of any thing more original to do in the brief moment of reflection allowed them, plunged back into the ward robe and sank into the oblivion of mothball-scented darkness. Miss Liddy took one look at the remnant on the bed, observing in her best unattached manner, “If a woman her, age must drink, you’d think she'd have enough sense to have it analyzed first,” and left the room. Liddy’s whole life consisted principally of leaving rooms. It Lacy and the lawyer carried Aunt Celimena into the hou^e. jave her some place to go. Later, when Lacy demanded tnxiously of her what had become »f the young lady whom he had brought to the house that morning, •he was stubbornly noncommittal. ''l guess she just evaporated like ill bad things do eventually,” she •aid deliberately, and the thin lips tightened. With a muttered observation, Lacy went into the library and (tared at the smooth surface of the iig desk. The three ten-dollar bills R'ere gone! Aunt Celimena, meanwhile, lay ipstairs on Mrs. Parker’s bed and ndulged in the enjoyment of her tecently acquired aches and pains, hs she felt each bruise where the topes had bitten into her flesh while the was tied up like a common or farden variety of everyday pirate (ictim, she compared herself to Joan )f Arc and a fewt- of the other great nartyrs of history. How could a girl with every rea |on to lead a normal and well-rcgu ated life go so far astray as to get nixed up with smugglers, pirates, (ave men, women of no reputation, tnd what not? Where would it all lead to? And where was Connemara at this very pinute? Perhaps she had run off with a band of Russian bomb throwers. Maybe at this very sec ond she was flying through the air (stride a church steeple that had #een pried loose from the mother building by a stick of dynamite. True, Connemara had red hair. But that was not an excuse for any thing and everything. With her throbbing pains beating In perfect rhythm to the horrible thoughts running through her tired brain, she dozed off into a, slumber fraught with demons and goblins luch as never before inhabited a pightmarc. Connemara in the wardrobe, in such close contact with the reform ed Sweetie, even where their posi- Winstou Asks Truitt to III; III 1027 Revival. Wlnston-Snlein, Jan. 4. —Today at a meeting of the local Ministerial asso ciation. it w»x decided to extend an invitation to l)r. George Truett. the djxjingitidied Tcxac ,diviile' to r hold a ; revival; meeting hew 'during the spring of 1!>27. Dr. Trnottiis one of the most widely known preachers in America, in fact hux#nn internation al reputation, and the association felt that if Dr. Truett’s services were to be (.enured the matter would have tions were equalized by the dark - ness and lack of air, still felt that v aloofness that had been bred in het t for many generations back. Shi , wanted to help Sweetie, but in spite -of that, she could not bring herseli r down to the other girl’s level. • It flashed through her mind thal • maybe the fault was not entirely t her own. Perhaps Sweetie was not r altogether sincere in her desire to - go straight. There seemed to be a . small cloud, hardly perceptible, cast ing a shadow athwart their bond of understanding. When the stuffiness of their coop ed-up quarters became unbearable, ; they opened the door the fraction of an inch and’were greatly relieved to see Aunt Celimena sprawled out on the bed writhing in the throes of a delirious battle with pirates and corsairs. The girls decided to risk a hasty but silent flight. They opened the door and took one step. But a mass of the house keeper’s clothing had dropped to the floor during their imprisonment and entwined itself • about their feet. They had no time to notice this trivial, but nevertheless important circumstance. Fate has away of creating a joke and then making it seem more laughable by creating another joke right on top of the first. Connemara was slightly in the lead and as she started the second step in her flight toward the door her feet did not function at all. She tripped over the mass of clothing on the floor. Sweetie who was close behind and going at the same speed, also tripped. Fate did not overlook a thing in arranging this little per formance. The bed upon which Aunt Celimena slept lay directly in the path of the two girls. They flopped down—kerplunk—squarely on top of the sleeper just as that estimable lady was being atateked by fifteen thousand buccaneers. She was suddenly awake, filled with a justifiable desire to fight for her life. Sheer numbers finally decided the encounter and Aunt Celimena stood face to face with Connemara. Or, rather, she lay face to face with Connemara. ”My God, Connemara!” she screamed, in a tone of voice that should have awakened the ancient kings of Egypt, and fell back in a dead faint. Sweetie crouched in the corner, rubbing a sore spot on her arm with three fresh ten-dollar bills. CHAPTER XVI By Georga Barr McCutcheon Now Bing Carrington had two separate and not very distinct ob jects in going overboard, one quite indefinite, the other more or less definite. First, he went over the rail into the water because he couldn't very well help himself, which was indefinite, and secondly, he had a hazy idea about securing help for his comrades, an object that became coinmcndably definite with the long, * cumbersome polo coat he had donned at the begin ning of the chase in order to cover as well as possible the rather starD ling harlequin suit he had worn to the fancy dress party. He succeed ed in shedding it, however, aban doning it to the waters of the Sound, a sacrifice made without the slightest compunction because lie remembered that it did not belong to him at all but to Salt Adams, who had generously pressed it upon him when they started off in the motor. After swimming for some ten ot fifteen minutes, swiftly but cauti ously, li‘e decided it was safe tg make for the shore, which he could distinguish close at hand. Presently he found a footing among the rocks and was soon threading his way among the trees, bound he knew not whither, except that reason told him he was'surb to come to a road shortly if he kept on in the direc tion he was going. He was wet and cold but determined. In due time, as he had suspected, he came to a macadam driveway. A short dis tance ahead he distinguished the black shadow of a house. For this he dashed without hesitation and mounting the broad steps to a capa cious veranda, was soon pressing the door button and rattling the great iron knocker. The house was in complete darkness. After a long wait a light, appeared in the hall and the door was opened by a par tially-clad manservant. (To* be continued) til be taken up with him long in ad vance He recently spent a week in thia city and comlucfed' services at the First Baptist church, and al though the new First Baptist church has a seating capacity of 2,0f>0 the simt-e was " not sufficient to accommo date ’ the crowd. A snowtield surveyor in Arizona re ports iiuvingjicen 11 drove of 40 horses fruxen to death hut standing erect in a snowdrift just ns ,they lmd huddled together before the storm. BELL-HARRIS FURNITURE CO. As the year is drawing to a close, we want to thank you, one and all for the splendid trade given us during the year and hope that you have had as prosperous a year as we have had. As the New Year dawns, we send you these greetings, wishing the new Year brings you Health, Wealth and" Prosperity. BELL-HARRIS FURNITURE CO. ' /or /Z? (f/Z/ca/ In tlie homes of diMTim-Lflj UC iuathig men and xronii'iilß vo will liail revealed ttieir KJI demands for the artistic, h T I unusual anil practical. That is why we critical our best customers. twjj “Fixtures of ( harafter” Ly UH W. J. UETIH’GX M W. Depot St. Phone 660 M Lovely Potted BULBS Hyacinths Tulips . Daffodils Narcissus . Crocus Lily of Valley* Violets At 15c and 25c Pearl Drug Co. Phones 22 and 722 Tuesday, January 5, 1026 f We carry at all times a complete line of genuine Buick parts, will be glad to supply you. STANDARD BUICK CO. Opposite City Firp Department SEND FOR. OS Cowes TOMORROW "SftAHOriNGr FRDXEN p\pas and sorrow * . 4 Don’t allow frozen pipes to bring to your house any par ticular degree of sorrow be cause if that sort of an accident happens we’ll be able to repair the damage in little or no time. And you won’t have any occas-1 kick about the price’we charge you either. CONCORD PLUMBING COMPANY 174 Kerr St. Phon* 576*