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Sa ‘ MILLION TO FIVE SONS, | 70 Jrehoa f. Dally ‘ 1 Darae Same ¢ head of the dry New York & bearing his name, \ © Friends’ en probated. Mr. Bally @ on Dee. tlon and th artha His estate being valued at upward of | Rerry School of Rome, Ga., each receive $2,000, 00 Don’t Poison Baby. r DRTY YEARS AGO almost every mother thought her child must have i KGORIC or laudanum to make it slee hese drugs will produce eso, week a FEW DROPS TOO MANY will produce the SLEEP “ROM WHICH THERE IS NO WAKING. Many are the children who have been killed or whose health has been ruined for life by paregoric, lauda- num and morphine, each of which is narcotic product of opium. Druggiste are prohibi from selling either of the narcotica named to children at all, or to anybody without labelling them “poison.” The definition of * narcotic wm: ‘A medicine which relieves pain and produces aleep, but which in poison- ous cones ces stupor, coma, convulsions and death. The taste and smell of medicines containing opium are di ised, and sold under the names of ** Drops,” ‘* Cordials,” “Soothing Syrups,” etc. You should not permit any medicine to be given to your children wighous you or your physician know * of what it is com) . CASTORIA DOES NOT CONTAIN NARCOTICS, if it bears the signature of Chas, H. Fletcher, Genuine Castoria always bears the signature of , Hats for Southern Wear ere now a feature of special interest in the Millinery Department on the First Floor. A number of attractive models appropriate for Misses as well as for Women) are ready for selection, made of the smart colored crepes, silks and satins in combinations with the favored straws. An Interesting Offering for to-morrow, in this Department, will comprise TRIMMED SATIN HATS principally in the faspienable dark colors, specially priced . . . © at $8.50 TRIMMED WINTER HATS will, at the same time, be on sale at the reduced prices of - + $3.00 & 5.00 Women’s Silk Hosiery offering excellent values at special prices, will provide a Sale of timely interest for to-morrow. WOMEN’S SILK HOSE Black silk . per pair 95c., $1.25 & 1.95 Black or white silk 3 + per pair 1.55 Also MEN’S SILK-PLATED HALF-HOSE in. black, white, gray, tan or navy blue, i per pair . . . * ee 55c. Men’s & Women’s Silk Umbrellas will be on sale to-morrow at prices that are unusually low for the excellent qualities presented. Twilled Silk Umbrellas, with handles of Ee natural wood . . ww OS275 Twilled Silk Umbrellas, with novelty handles in several attractive designs; exceptional i valueat . . . . « .» $3.85 t | Taffeta or Twilled Silk Umbrellas, with sterling silvere-mounted handles in extremely handsome designs . . fi A $4.50 Also | Men’s Walking Sticks of fine malacca, with horn ferrule . es 2.50 A ' $2.50 President of Actuaries Says The first optimistic note sounded in this country regarding preparedness THE EVENING WORLD, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1016,’ ‘AMERICA READY |: WITH BIGPLANTS. faily It was literally a pos|-gradu im that of in elr intelle lay of the the men w uranee had # tual menu on the cerns Are Pr&pared. brow ht the We cancer, a ane A ;_ | veloped that immediate relatives 494 | tember had brought them almost That Cancer Has No Heredi- | jegociates of persona who ind died | within sight of Baris, Gen, Gaillen,| : on cance : then Military Governor of Paris, tary Dangers for Public. | from cancer neop entertain no feat) Tien srt cops Ib motor venicles by on that score, ous menace to the community disease which resulted tn | G. Altman & Cn. A Quantity of Dress, Suit, Skirt & Coat Lengths (this season’s wool fabrics) will be placed on sale toemorrow (Saturday) AT GREATLY REDUCED PRICES This sale will comprise Broadcloths, Tweeds, Serges, Gabardines and Wool Velours in a wide range of the wanted colors for Winter. “Any one of the Lengths offered would make an eminently useful and acceptable gift. (Dress Goods, First Floor) Celluloid Toilet Articles (Ivory finish) equally appropriate for gift purposes or for personal use, will be specially priced for to-morrow. The prices include monogram engraved to order on each article. Mirrors - » §2.50 | Pin Boxes and Puff Hair Brushes, 2.65 | Boxes + each $1.50 Cloth Brushes, 2.75 | Buffers . . . 95c. Combs ... Hair Receivers, 35c. | Button Hooks & Nail 1.50 | Files . . each 45¢, The Toilet Goods Department specializes in Foreign and American Perfumes and Toilet Waters; Atomizers and Manicure Sets; Thermos Bottles and Carafes; and dressing. room requisites of all kinds. A Clearing Sale of Boys’ Wear for to-morrow (Saturday) will comprise merchandise taken from regular stock and marked at considerably reduced prices. Mackinaws, sizes 8 to 18 yrs. Coats, sizes 2!4 to 10 years, 5.75 & 7.75 8.75 to 15.00 15.50 & 17.50 Shirts, in colored stripes; meckband sizes 12 to 14 inches . « « « « 95e. sizes 7 to 14 years 65c. & 75c. Ulsters, sizes 11 to 18 years, Blouses, white or colored, at. . . . . . Also Hats, of felt or cloth, at reduced prices. (Im some of the above items the range of sizes is incomplete.) (Fourth Floor, Madison Avenue ection) An Extraordinary Sale of Women’s Tailored Suits at $19.00 (sizes incomplete) is now being held on the Third Floor. | | | Fifth Avenw- Madison Avenue, New York of Lite itante sition of | equally with cheerful news recarding | ton. sald researches had de- “Every one must recognize a sera of the Hunter. United States,” sald “It should not be as- Fr is a disease of old dingly its ravages serious economic half, or 40,000, of tho wore among persons y years of age. If we as- h of those individuals wa ntially $2,600, the com- FOR CALL (fF WAR tenth annual sess They munity was poorer by $100,000,000 | sen net “ ows that the through their deaths, astde from the, rd the cheering news tha cont of attending to them in their public need not fear cancer as a her- sickness,” | cas al editary blight Mr, Willys predicted national Lehre Miwe alle Beata . ay ot kome Interesting education |/Perity after the war. He said that! Willys Tells Tnsurance Heads ay ee ee eee ie narned the Ananclers and the Industrial heads | ‘ * sial o 5 4 y for an emergency an Industrial and Financial Con- costs the people of th® made these interesting observations: | to govern themselves! “The ts of motor cars rank producers of ammunition <a i |1n their potential possibilities of mili-| RNMENT ‘ i if z bad ident of the| tAzY services to the country. Motor st OF G J/ERNMENT. rthur nter, President of '"®) vehicles in the present war have Cost F GOVE A | Actuarial Soctety of Americ, twice saved France from extermina- “When the peril was greatest, when the onrush of the Germans in @ep- the thousand to the aid of Gen, Foch, ‘They turned the tlde and made pos- sible the victory we know as th Battle of “e Marne. “Motor ick saved Verdun, The of the United States for war came to- Litas haar es t teeade | GeTman advance had cut the French : nyanelninat and which during the decade | railway nections. Horse-drawn Gay when Join N. Willys, President). caused tho death of nearly three- | wagon © could have brought the of the Willys-Overland Automobile | quarters of 4 million of the inhab- | supplies, Motor trucks have sup-|« | plied the army for the last ten months, “Let Americans take hope tn the immense motor car facilities we have here. Men to drive them are plenty. “American munitions plants, now fupplying the warring nations of | Europe, have shown what they can do in the way of rapid and enormous production for a motive purely com- mercial. They would do Infinitely more In time of national need. “Burope must be rebuilt after this war ends. We will have the trained men as never before. It will be our work. The profits wil be ours. There is warrant only for optimism. But tf we are to realize our commercial ulti- mate, there must be a minimum curb- ing of {dividual aggressiveness. “The amazing advance of the motor car industry proves what American men can do if left a free hand. In/ 1906 there were in the United States only 120,000 automobiles. Remember that ts only ten years ago. In 1912 we thought {t phenomenal when for the ‘iret time the total passed the million mark with 1,010,438, December 1, 1916, saw 3,352,000 cars, representing an ap- proximated cash value of two billion dolars.”” Prof. Thomas Sewall Adams, Ph, D., of Yale took the men of millions to school regarding the cost of govern- ment. He presented these. figures showing the cost to the National Government, States, counties and In- corporated cities of more than 2,500 for the year 1913—the last for which the statistics have been made Total ...... 2, (Outlays | for properties Protection to person and braries ei Charities, hosp! corrections ..... (Expenses of public vieo enterprices . General Gor Highways . Interest .. Conservation of and sanitation 278,555,779 202,163,538 189,104,366 (Miscellaneous and O. Recreation 3 789 “Students of ths subject know that the Increase in public expenditures was particularly rapid after 1912. My own Impression fs that it is largely a result of @ great movement of currency inflation which began in the later nine- ties; but, however that may be, it ts probable’ that in 1914—on the out- break of the European War—publie expenditures In this country were ab- sorbing @ larger part of private income hey had for thirty years before tt ho project of ‘instituting State health insurance upon the Carrier Assoctation system in vogue in Ger- many, was attacked by W. G. Curtis, president of the National Casualty Company, of Detroit, who said: »w Yorla with Its 4,000,000 wage. 5th Ave. Service STYLE AND QUALITY AT 3d Ave. Prices and even they have been made lower by our “Royal” Easy Payment Plan ~—which means Why not furnish your home in the “ROYAL” Way? | Gomplote se Lew 2999.98 Two Big Stores, Open Evenings, Music Roll SALE corners, sustain sickness of 00 per year, Compuisory health | nce will cost ig New York $9 per ‘The State contribu’ per sy plus the cost for Its 27,000 cove Horton—who was | employees, plus the cost of the mission's expenses; | The State tax on re property for 1915 nd p a $20,000,000, was therefore the inbrease in the State tax would be 104 per cent.” WILL FIGHT FOR FORTUNE OF OLD HELL GATE PILOT Daughter of George W. Horton Wins Point and Widow May Not Get $100,000. (Rpeetal to The Prening World.) WHITE PLAINS, N, Y., Dec. 15.— document, at Chardon, contest over the two wills of the tate|ciled in White: George W. Horton, who for over sixty years was a Hell Gate pilot, which has deen pending in the courts for three years, as the Appellate Division has just banded down a decision re-|°s ry No. 2 as it was known, and which gives the entire estate worth close to tate. CHICKERING West 42nd Street Brand New 88-Note Player Piano Rolls which include the latest hits, songs, dances, marches, classics, ete., will be placed on sale to-morrow. llc to 50c Some Are Listed as High as $1.75 | WISSNER 55-57 FLATBUSH AVE, BROOKLYN HE SACK SUIIS present two and three button models, some quarter silk lined, others full lined with mohair; plain and fancy mix- tures, in all the new and desirable colorings and weaves; sizes 34 to 46, stouts included. Fancy Vests tor Street Wear, wage tosn through {$100,000 to his widow, Mrs. Alice Caslin Horton, a bride of a months, at the time of his death. The second wil was made by Mr. » |old when he married Alice McCaslin, almost thirty years short time after his marriage contest over it was started by his daughter, Mrs. Jane Ann South Broadway, lewing that her father was incom- petont at the time he signed that}; Mr, Horton died On a ginsing farm near Painesville, 1913 at the age of eighty-six years. When the contest was started the question of the domicile of the old pilot came up, the widow contending that he was a resident of Ohio, while ‘There appears to be no end yet to the! Nis daughter claimed that he domt- | fetal Sawyer found tn his decision that Horton was a resident of Ohio and admitted to probate the Ohlo will, which was made just previous to his Mrs. Dickie also offered for pro- Nereing the decision of Surrogate |bato a will which was exccuted In Bawyer, who admi l190a in White Plains, under white A ated to probate wilt 'sng’ was made executrix and” four grandchildren inherited the entire es- Large Shipment Just Received! New Style Victrola (Extra Heavy QUADRUPLE Spring Spiral Drive Motor) With $15 in Victor Records —your own choice—TOTAL PRICE $265 Special Record Gift Suggestions for Victrola Owners SEVENTH FLOOR Lord @& Taylor Store FIFTH AVENUE Stern Brothers Between 5th and 6th Avenues An Exceptional Price Opportunity, To-day and Saturday in these Men’s Suits and Overcoats at $19.50 Full Evening Dress and Tuxedo Suits at $25.00, 30,00 and 35.00 Full Evening Dress and Tuxedo Vests, also me-|SOUGHT APOLOGY AT 2 1: ®. fi «fo years aaa SIyOd old, of No, 219 Greene Street Wi yt voke Stanislaus Sehiuahy India Street at 2 A. M, today why Stanisiaus had talked him. Stantslaus was ec ing hie sleep disturbed discusa the matter. a ‘The police ray Saminsky then the “other man. in tho neck, atm any Saminsky was locked Re O y war taken to the hoe; iny is condition. his junior—a |) Thel, Dickle of White Plains, al- 0. in Remove - THE CAUSE afta cle so, mi Plains, Surrogate The Tonle Nearly everyone is saying that TERMS: Not only this large shipment the Victr: itput is insuffi- of the newest of Victrolas, but = cient ; it i 0 satisfac- we can show you all other 3 tion to announce the receipt of styles, with one single excep- a large shipment of the newest tion, The wonderful style of all Victrolas—the style XVII. XVIIL, at $300, the XVI. at $200, xm of the most eatlefactory the ‘at $100, are all here, igns ever put out by great lor to choose, Se- Victor Company. a month lect yours NOW! WAREROOMS 39TH STREET West 43rd Street ‘HE OVERCOATS are in button- through and fly-front models, full and belted backs, velvet and self collars, one-quurter and full silk lined; in Oxfords, blacks and fancy mixtures; sizes from 34 to 46, stouts included. - + from $3.50 to 7.50