PAGE TEN OPPOSITE NEW HOTEL p ; A Few of the Many Facts ABOUT The Leonard Cleanable Refrigera tors * FIRST —They are scientifically constructed and with a constant circulation of pure, cold, dry air they save ice instead of melting it. SECOND— With their ONE-PIECE PORCELAIN LINING, having rounded corners and brought clear out to the edge of the door frames, and every inside part instantly removable, THE LEONARD IS AS EASY TO CLEAN AS A NEW CHINA DISH. THIRD—The LEONARD LOCK which practically grabs the door as soon as you push it shut—either with your hand or foot —and holds it tight. This makes it im possible for a door to be left partly open if any attempt is made to close it at all, and adds greatly to the efficiency of the refrigerator. A trip to our store to investigate a really Good and Long Service Giving Refrigerator will convince you of it’s quality. BELL-HARRIS FURNITURE CO. Beautiful Spring Footwear Featuring Fine Quality in the favored New Shapes at Mod erate prices $2.95 TO $6.95 MARKSON SHOE STORE Phone 897 ~ ‘^ |H vopo nc J|| filißaflE--.....'V f LiL.......i1L —_u— A Special Presentation of PARIS INSPIRED HATS They have just been unboxed—and the unboxing reveals such adorable new ideas—so utterly different from anything you have seen before. Lovely large hair hats, ajour braids and novelty straw bodies adorned with giant flowers. Smart little Bangkoks and Balibuntals, and many, many novelty straws hard to classify. Some are tailored; others of the more dressy type; all are priced exceedingly low. $2.95 TO $9.95 visit FISHER’S it pays Picture When Trouble Comes, His Violin Comforts Him. The Progressive Farmer. Our own feeling is that our best letter on *‘Ho\v We Have Found In creased Happiness Through Good Music” has come rather appropriate ly from “an old Kentucky home”^— being written by R- H. MeCown of Christian County in the Bluegrass State, and we give his prize letter herewith: — "Personally my violin is the most indispensable part of my farm equip ment. When puzzling and perplexing questions arise, sometimes we are too close to the situation to see it clear ly. We need to stand back and get | a far view, as that of a disinterested i spectator, and let our minds relax. | Then when we come back to the [case, we can see more clearly, and with calmer judgment the solution is j easy. Worry is the arch enemy of the farmer. “When all is going well, the pigs fattening in the clover, the corn growing tall, the meadows yielding up a big harvest, the cows contented in the pasture, and all prospects flattering, I like to take my violin and for awhile lose myself from all thought of my daily labors And. too. when the markets are declining day by day, when drouth comes with hot winds, or summer floods cover the bottom cornfields, when everything seems to go wrong, then I need my violin. It is all there Ls left that can help I can lose myself from it ail in the cotton fields of Dixie. 1 can wander along the shore of the Wa bash or the Suwanee River. I can hear voice* resonant with hope and faith in the sacred music sung by other men long ago who were sorely tried, or I can see the stern men who made and {Treserved us a nation, peer through the gray dawn to see if the old flag still waves, and in the notes of old masters I can find 1 peace and contentment. I come 1 ack ito my problems with a new vision, and a new faith in the land, and I know there will be a turn in the • long lane. I “It has been truly said that music lis a universal language; though ton -1 gues may differ there is something understandable about music for all races. And there are. classes of music adopted to every class of man, from the tom-toms of the Indian, the wail ing notes of the Hawaiian’s guitar, on to the soft, ribbony notes of the master’s violin. For those who are not gifted so they can make their own music, the radio, player piano, and phonograph 1 place within the reach of all whatever kind of music they may desire." Indications point to a large entry litNt for the Canadian interscholastic track and field championships, which are to be held in Montreal May 20 under the auspices of McGill Uni versity. To supply the newspapers of New York City with paper 0,000 spruce trees are cut down daily* THE CONCORD DAILY TRIBUNE WHO IS “THE SLIDING GHOST ? War Vet, Robbed of Memory by Shell, Can’t Even Recall Name JeTTJV li<£ht caused ' ** **"**“ to lose His memory " BY GEORGE BRITT NEA SmW Writer. Washington, April 3.—ls you could Start out in life again with n clean slate. forgeJ ting the past, would you do it? "Better not." answers the "Sliding Ghost," an ex-soldier who for want of a better name is called .Terry Tar hot at the Mt. Also Veterans' Hospital here. The ease of the "sliding Ghost - ’ is one of the most peculiar and baffling mysterious that has followed ip the wakt-of the great war. Can't Learn His Name. For three years the federal govern ment has been trying to learn the real name of .Terry Tarbot. It has failed, but the Veterans’ Bureau is convinced that the "Sliding Ghost.’’ who won his nickname been use of his ability to wiggle through some of the most dangerous parts of wire-entangled No-Man’s Land, lived t'-cugh some of the most terrible days of the war. Eight years ago Tarbot’s memory tvas almost blotted out when a great shell exploded near him in France. 'There was n tremendous flare of light and the sound of a million bees humming in my ears,’’ lie recalls. From that time on, he can remem ber nothing about his past. In 1923 he was found in an asylum in Stock ton, Cal. How he got. there he does not know, but during the, interval from 19.18 to 1923 he apparently wan dered all over the country, even buy ing a barren ranch. Tarbot could start life again on a fresh, new page, but lie needs his TODAY’S EVENTS Thursday. April 22. 1920 Centenary of the birth of General William 11. Morris, who commanded j a federal army corps at Spottsyl valian. Spain today will observe the 475th anniversary of the birth of Queen Isa bella, the patrioness of Columbus. In Nebraska and New Hampshire this is the date fixed for the annual celebration of Arbor Day. The thirty-sixth anniversary of the famous “run” into the "Oklahoma country” will be celebrated today at Oklahoma City. John W. Van Zandt, of Blaweu burg. N. J., the oldest postmaster in the I'nited States in point of service, today celebrates his (50th anniversary in the service of the postal depart ment. The Republican campaign in Mas sachusetts is to be opened with a big meeting in Boston tonight at which the speakers will include Senator Len root, of Wisconsin and Assistant Sec retary of War MacNider. Many noted leaders of the bench and bar in the Southwest will assem ble today at Texarkana. Ark., for a joint convention of the State bar as sociations of Arkansas, Texas and Louisiana. Snow on the Border. I Mount Airy. April 20.—Trucks and automobile* coming into this city this morning from the north side of the Blue Ridge, in Carroll county. Virginia, were covered with a sheet of snow one to two inches deep,and biting winds nre sweeping over this ecction. It is feared that the fruit crops may have been dam aged by thus unseasonable weather. Rocky Kansas, the lightweight champion, is said to be one of the richest of pugilists, his bank roll be ing estimated at close to half a mil lion dollars. The most -of it was made in real estate speculation in Buffalo. Marcel Leemput, the Belgian play er who finiahed third in the recent international billiard tournament, is only nineteen year* old. past. His few scattered flashes of memory, gleaming through the haze of forgotten years, are not enough to guide him hack to his real niche in society or to his real name. Can’t Get Compensation. If lie could identify himself and connect himself with a war service record somewhere in the rolls of the Marine Corps, he would be several thousand dollars richer. He would have government compensation money for nearly eight years to which a dis abled veteran is entitled. There is also a more important need for his past, he believes. "Starting over again now. about 37 years old, I can’t take a place along side the average man of my age," lie says. "I must start out fresh with the younger lads. Other men have been building up into their jobs. I don’t know where I did my building. If 1 could go hack mid begin where I left off. there would not be so much toil to do over again." Served With French First. Most convincing are his memories of army life. He thinks he went to France in 1916. and for a time he was a dispatch carrier with French troojis. He remembers, too. that he served with the Sixth Marines at Belleau Wood. This fact is confirmed by members of that famous outfit, a cap tain making affidavit that he must have been there to know so much about the fight and the men in it. and nn enlisted man saying he knew him. but only by the name of “Frenchy.” Remembers Boyhood. A handful of earlier memories lie WHAT’S SMART IN MEN’S WEAR Remarkable popularity of gabardine sport coat observed at Palm Beach A LATE and very cold spring in the North combined with the unusual interest in Florida affairs generally, caused Palm Beach to remain filled with the fashionable folk of the coun try later this year than usuaL Never before, probably, have lo many really well dressed men been gathered together as have been seen at Palm Beach this »eason. Os course they are there 30 play, and when they play they dress the part. This has given an unusual op portunity to see what kind of sport clothes will be worn at the country clubs this spring and Bummer, for the styles set at Palm Beach quickly spread over the country. Style observers for Hart Schaffner & Marx report a re markable popularity for the half-belted gabardine sport coat, worn with white or striped trousers. The double-breasted blue jacket, with white or brass but tons, also is much seen. A new shade called Harrow blue, tak ing its name from the famous Eng lish school, also is observed. Silver gray sqits of Eton flannel, mostly in the double breasted model, are much in ftideuce. as are s#ert coats of has, also, tie grow up on New York's West Side. He remembers boyish mis chief, such as selling a chicken to a sidewalk merchant. eooveriug it through a hole in the coop and selling it over ngain.x He thinks he once studied for the priesthood, and he can quote phrases of l