The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 18, 1921, Page 4

PAGE 4 PEDDLER_IS Dumbfounded at News; Takes Two Policemen to Convince Him of Luck OAKLAND, Cal, Feb, 18.—Alfred | me was a peddler of shoe. | ings when he went to bed. | Next morning he was a millionaire, But he didn't know it. He got tan early hour, a lifelong habit, | Brapped up bis peddier’s case and) ed downtown to cateh the early Saebppers. (gtd INFORMS HIM BIG FORTUNE In the meantime half a dozen de Wotives were searching for him. ‘A letter bad come to the Oakland from Attorney John N. Land: | , Of Philadelphia, telling of a june that waited one Aifred New Pome, accompanied by a photograph "Of Newsome, taken some years ago, | her with the information that had last been heard from % the vicinity of Berkeley, Cal | Newsome, meanwhue, piodded along side streets, made a fow sales finally fetched up directly in nt of “The Clud.” The club ls a ‘Foom provided for the unemployed | church organization, An as} tment of jobless men, dereticts | oki men who have no other to go, gather there each day. To Newsome, aged peddier of Shoestrings, many of “the club Brembers had become cronies. New walked in. All of his aged | were there, for it was! ednesday, a day on which they| bly gathered for a checker it always d with a careful study of lists jobs, placarded on “the club” but seldom did a position ap to tempt them. The checker. d beside the warm stove would) the weekly nt had gotten under way came thro the door in the of Police Inspector Peter Van He took a card from his and carefully studied Ne “I want to see you a moment,” he Are they dogs? They surely are! And, strange as they look, they're champions, too.| Little Pedro, in the brown derby, weighs one the world. He's a feature of Mexican hairless. the 45th annual THE SEA the smallest full grown dog in ro and is log show,at Madison Square garden. He's a The little fellow doing a “parade rest” for Miss ivelyn McManus of New York, is “Petite,” the only Rhea Pincher at the show. The one that looks like a bear is Ja Pa Red Fed, a chow. No, nobody stepped on the face of “White Hope,” champion bull dog. He was born that way. His is the toughest mug at the show. was positively identified as the miss ing heir, The fortune had, appar: | ently, been left by a brother, with whom Newsome had quarreled as a) youth—tho there was but meager | moment. Something that strangely resembled a tear appeared in his eye. “I want to bey « little comfort firet of all.” he said. “I'm too old BLAZING COAL TTLE STAP Boston Bags Priced Very Low at $4.50 —Hage such as these are regularly priced at $6.50 Heavy quality cowhide Boston bags in handboarded soft grain te Bines 14, 14, 16 and 16 Inches witth r FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1921. 3 ay Men’s Flannel Shirts Unusualty Low Priced at $3.00, $3.50 and $4.25 gray, brown and green. weather, and full size, Misses’ Mattresses Stockings Exceptionally Priced for This Sale Only at 45¢ REGULAR PRICE 85e —Richelieu ribbed stock- ings in a fine merce lisle stocking with hem top and well reinforced foot. —Black, white and cordo- van. Sizes 6 to 10. —Piret Floor $8.50 SOLD REGULARLY AT $15.00 pounds ‘each. Filled with felted, not to get lumpy. tufted. Neckwear $1.00 Regularly Sold From $2.00 to $3.75 —-Hand-made Filet Neck- wear. Roll collars, and modesty fronts. | —Fine net colldts, cuffs, and modesty fronts — dainty Swiss Organdie Neckwear, trimmed with filet lace. Dotted Swiss Special at 40c a Yard 60¢ —Dotted Swiss Extreme Price Reductions on —A good assortment of flannel shirts for men in blue, Splendid weights for crimpy Good for outing shirts. Thoroughly well made —First Floor Priced Extremely Low at THIS MATTRESS HAS —Full size, weight full 40 un- bleached cotton, built layer upon layer, and guaranteed Made with roll edge and closely Covered with art ticking in a choice selec- tion of patterns and colors. —Fourth Floor FORMERLY PRICED AT in dotted and figured designs, a ma- terial much desired for kitchens and bath rooms. Fourth Floor Special Price Basement A REMARKABLE SALE Featuring Smart Spring Hats at $5.00 Distinctive Modes in Dashing New Effects —Clever hats of new visca braids, straw braids and combinations of silk, satin, faille silk, crepe de chine and georgette. Some hand embroidered, others flower trimmed. —Hats that would ordinarily command a far higher price. —Sailors—Turbans—Rolled Brims. JUST FROM NEW YORK are € SECOND AVENUE AND UNIVERSITY STREET information in the letter. | for many luxuries. If f said I wanted ai, fm policeman to quention one of | ~Bumber regarding some petty “There's good news for you here,” a “You can't be too sure,” said the peddier, made skeptical by years of | adversity. He took his pack and returned to work. Aa days went by It finally dawned upon the peddier that he was actu ally a millionaire. A railroad ticket came from Philadeiphia, and more letters and telegrams ‘The first thing he did was to hurry down to “the club" to tell hin cronies. His news brought little more than a slight stir. The old men who haunt the club have grown hardened to fortune and misfortune alike. “Well, I won't forget you boys when I get my hands on the money,” he assured them, as be walked out of “the club” for the last time. HOPE OF ROMANCE COMES WITH MONEY “Now that you can afford almost anything you wish, what's the first $3.00 Shirts of fine percales and madras cloths, in very choice pat- tern treatments, now reduced to cesses $1.50 $10.00 Silk Mixed Shirts in very rich weaves and both sedate and striking pattern and | what I want most—somebody to cook | BENEATH TOWN wife, [ spose I'd have ten thou-| sand women running or omy! money. Yea, I think that's just about good food for me again and take tinguish Flames care of me. The rest of the money | Scranton Struggles to Ex-| | Fancy China and will go to old fellows in my fix, I Now the Rural Cops Have Boston Bonnets BOSTON, Feb. 18.—The police de partment ts selling 1,000 helmets. Captain Searles sold one to an outof- jtown police chief for $2. Movie | comedians and constables are expect ed to buy the remainder. « LONDON, Feb. 18—Vells accum- uinte ge in front of the mouth and , which multiply in the | air, according to Dr, Octavia Lewin, thing you will do with your money?” he was asked. The aged peddier hesitated a amistant physician at the London Homeopathic hospital, She advised against the use of the veil. V2 PRICE Shirt Sale “THESE reductions bring America’s finest shirts down to practically pre- war prices. They’re season’s lines—not overs—and represent the choicest weaves and pattern treatments in America’s best style and quality sh $5.00 Shirts ments, red $12.50 to $1 color treat- ments, now reduced to. .$5.00 _ Half Price on every Hat and Cap in stock. This in of Dobbs’ and Knapp Felt Hats. Neckwear Savings All our lines of Neckwear are now subject to radical price revisions, including fancy Four-in- Hands and Bow Ties, as follows: 75e Neckwear values now $1.00. Neckwear values $1.50 Neckwear values $2.00 Neckwear values $2.50 Neckwear values now.... now. .$1.00 now. .$1.35 now. .$1.65 ‘ $4.00 Neckw $5.00 Neckw domestic madras cloths, including smart cords and novelty treat- most elegant patternings of silk crepes, jersey silks and silk broad- cloths, now reduced to $3.00 Neckwear $3.50 Neckwear $4.50 Neckwear all from our regular manufacturers’ left- irts. of fine imported and juced to......... $2.50 6.50 Silk Shirts in the $6.25 to $8.25 cludes our finest grades values values values values values now. .$2.00 now. .$2.35 now. .$2.65 now. . $3.00 now. .$3.35 ear ear Underwear Reductions These lowered prices of Men’s Winter-weight Union Suits present very important and timely money savings on strictly quality lines. $8.50 fine worsted and cotton mixed Union Suits reduced to....$5.00 wiss ribbed, heavy, fine worsted $7 natural, medium: we' and cotton mixed Un $10 Swiss ribbed, medium weight worsted and cotton m KING BROS. CO. ight worsted ion Suits re- $4.00 2g $12 S and cotton duced to $5 Wool-mix ixed, reduced $5.50 mixed Union Suits re- $7.00 ed Union Suits. .$2.75 1200 AND 711 SECOND AVENUE | SCRANTON, Pa, Feb. 18.—A red. hot coal, 10 feet in thickness and Bt least 600 feet in length, is blaze doned workings of the old Central mine, West Scranton, and ts stead.) ly ereeping eastward, consuming tn tts courke thoumnds of tons of lanthracitea, All efforta ef 200 fire fighters to extinguish the fire, or} even to check its progreay, have, up to the present, been of no avail STREAMS OF WATER | POURED FOR WEEKS Beven streams of water have | for weeks been pouring upon the burning coal with no. apparent re- mult, the water causing fantastic vapors tn the white heat which/| serve only to hamper the work of | the fire fighters, already hampered enough by the heat and poisonous | gases lawuing from the burning | coal. | | The firemen enter the mine thru/ ja shaft two miles away. They are) unable, on account of the terrible! heat, to venture any nearer the | fire than 500 fect. A perpendicn- | tar airwhaft, located directly above the fire and communteating with | | the open air 400 feet above affords }a Graft greater than that of the | mont towering smokestack, Grave! danger confromta the men fighting |the flames, as a sudden depreaston | Jin the atmospheric conditions above | I might send the sulphurous gases |backward, reeniting in suffocation From a distance, with the aid of | which old Ptuto himself jluxuriate, ‘There are in a wilder-| news of fire, with low-hanging celi-| Ings, wide crevices from which lame | blue and white flames, The heat is unbearable. | All faith in the efficacy of water to extinguish the flames has been | abandoned, and the erection of| walls to exclude air and cause the! fire to die of inert gus is the plan} of the fire fighters, following an investigation by a comminsion from | | the state department of mining. Conerete walls four feet thick are being built in all tunnels and crev-| ices leading to the fire. In nections of adjacent vetns, re mote from the scene of the fire, temperatures of 170 degrees Fahren heft have been recorded as a result jof the fire GAS EXPLOSION Low ed mines of the Peo. » communicating | » where the with the Centra fire is located, contain large quan Uties of gna. If the fire should come in contact with this gas, an explosion would result, the effects of which are incalculable, accord. ing to experts. Theré is no imme diate danger of this, the experta add comfortingly and it is predicted that within a few weeks, thru the pres- ent method of fighting the flames, | the fire will be smothered. Two Chess Experts to Play in Havana NEW YORK, Feb 18,—A match for the chess championship of the world and a purse of $20,000 will begin at Havana on March 10 between U. R. Capablanca of Cuba and Dr, Eman | uel Lasker of Berlin, The two great est exponents of the game | agreed to all the arrang r the contes hich wil aht to 24 games. \He Carried Mail If | When 4 Years Old ! | PIEDMONT, 8. C, Feb. 18.—Dan |has just been retired by the govern ment. He carried mail 17 years. | Never missed a day. Hstimated dis. tance traveled, 75,000 miles, Dan's 21, He's a horse, ing 400 feet under Scranton it The fire is located in the shan-|]) glasses, can be seen an tnforno in|f} might |} Glassware —Hundreds of pieces of on special sale at prices ONE-FOURTH TO ONE-HALF LESS values this sale offers. Cut Glass Prices Reduced Scudio Hand-Painted China Prices Greatly Reduced —Beautiful Hand - painted China from several of the best studios of the coun- try. in this sale. $15.00 Berry $10.50 Berry $ 8.00 Rerry $ 6.00 Sugar $10.00 Sugar $ 3.75 Nappies $5.00 Nappies .. $15.50 Water Sets . $15.00 Water Sets . $ 5.00 Pickle Dishes $4.50 Celery Trays . $ 7.00 Celery Trays . English Rock Tea Pots 1.00 Plates / 1.75 Dessert Plates 6.00 Sugar and Creamer.$ 2.95 $00 Sugar and Croamer.$ 4.95 2.00 Olive Dishes .. £.00 Sandwich Trays . 5.00 Vases $10.00 Vasen .. $25.00 Chocolate Set Importe Fancy China Prices Greatly Reduced Bale Price —A $8.00 Chocolate Sets $3.00 Nut Sets.. $3.50 Nut Bowl Sugar and Creamer.. —Sale prices — 35c, —All cut glass is included and Creamer.$ 4.69 and Creamer.$ 6.95 large assortment of English Rock Tea Pots, plain and decorated, in the sale at very special prices. 45c, 69c, $1.19, $1.65 and $1.95. —Fitth Floor P-=c---j fancy china, studio hand- painted and cut glass placed —Mention is made of only a few of the many exceptional 100 New Skirts Exceptional Values at $7.95 These Skirts Would Regularly Sell for $12.50 to $15.00 —Novelty plaids and stripes in a wide variety of the wanted colors, and most exceptional values. Color combinations of blues, greens, browns and tans. —20 different styles. The Exceptional Sale of Silk Dresses at $25.00 Continues for Saturday Special Price Basement France Wants Money to Heal War Wounds BY MILTON BRONNER PARIS, Feb. 18—IFrance wants healing, not revenge. That explains French insistence that Germany shall pay It is not a case of Shylocking. It} ton't a case of trying to grind a foe's face into the dust. It's simply a matter of trying to make that foe re pair immenasu: je injuries commit ted during a Lens ... Amiens . . 91,785 In addition to wrecking these cities | and to destroying the great coal] mines around Lens, the Germans, by the war, brought devastation to SALE OF NAVY CONDEMNED STORES | | By Seated Bid, Opening on Thursday out 7 per cent of French territory vas devastated. Just a comparison, But—to compare France with America—suppose that 7 per cent in, cluded Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Con Was valued at $500 an acre. means can best be grasped from the fact that it produced the yYollowing portion of France's creps: Of wheat February 24th, at 2 o'Clock Maryland and West Vir- Induding necticut, ginia! It would include our best coal mines, factory towns, eastern farm ing and sheep-erazing country This 7 per cent of fra: boon devastated is tothe F aotly what those states n oats to uM. | Boat comprise m is | Engines Silverware | Table Linen | Furniture | Blankets | Barber | Chairs | Catalog of Sale and further infor | | Metals | Hardware Screws whereas de’ does not include the bi But the following lst of French | cities wrecked, with their population | mation may be obtained from the is illuminating | | BOARD OF SURVEY, APPRAISAL AND SALI } NAVY YARD, PUGET SOUND, WN Or from the Sales Office 805 Lowman Bidg., Seattle, Wash, Buy It From the Navy ure: Cambrat . Solsson: Douai Verdun . Armenticres . 24,400 28,605 9,000,000 acres of French soll, Much of this land before the war | Of sugar beets jOf flax ... tf hops “ene cr The ministry says that 30 buildings on this territory have B Lotally destroyed and 290,425 aged. What desolation in this territory 20 per ras! BUTLER DRUG CO. 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