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JBfcnsm WASHINGTON, Dec. 23.—A gifoss deficiency in national fiscal transac tions of $2,100,000,000 this fiscal and $1,500,000,000 for the next fiscal year, was forecast today by Secre tary Houston in testimony before the senate finance committee, which is considering the soldier bonus bill. The secretary said federal finances were in such shape that new sources of revenue must be found and no ■ new burdens added to the treasury. In 1923, Mr. Houston said, SBOO,- of war savings certificates ■ and bonds mature, and must either ■ be refunded or paid. In addition, the » cost of running the government must ■ be met and the floating debt amounts V to $2,300,000,000. r Face $1,500,000,000 Deficit "In brief,” said Mr. Houston, “we | have to take care of $7,500,000,000 I worth obligations within the next ■ two yeSs in addition to financing the ■ ordinary activities of the govern- J ment. ■ "At the same time, some sources B of revenue are gradually drying up, 9 notably the income and profits taxes. ® “We will approach 1923 with a defi- M Oit of at least $1,500,000,000 at the !■ present rate. Hjj "Obviously, therefore, we must Either cut down our expenditures or y find new sources of revenue, even if ►-we do not take on any new obliga -9 tions. This will be difficult, because ■ there is growing in the public mind I opposition to paying high taxes any I longer.” g Opposes German Credit ■ Mr. Houston said he strongly op -1 posed any plan to have the govern- I ment give Germany a credit of a bil | lion dollars, as some farm organiza | tions are demanding. I “That would just be transferring I to the government the bad debts or | poor security which private capital I refuses to assume,” said Mr. Hous- I tO He declared that if such a credit were granted Germany, he would not know where the money would come * r “With all the burdens that con front us, it doesn’t seem to me that we ought to throwz-on the govern i ment further burdens of that sort, said Mr. Houston. Some of the chief advocates of the credit to Germany are vociferously demanding, he said, that the _ debt owed us by the allies be cancelled. Efforts to Obtain Large German Credit V Made by American WASHINGTON, Dec. 2?. —Efforts to obtain a large credit for Germany in the United States are being made by an American. William Wallace Brauer, of New York, it was learned at the state department today. Brauer, who is said to represent German interests, has the backing of farming elements in the United States and representatives of farm ers organizations have called at the state department to inquire whether an advance to Germany would re <jfijve the approval of this govern " ment. , . , , ! The proposed credits, which have, l< been mentioned in a figure as high as I a billion dollars, are desired by Ger ; many to purchase raw materials, mainly food products. While it is not believed that any 'definite understanding has been reached, it is understood Brauer is attempting to work through New York bankers and hopes that the pro k posed revival of the war finance cor- I poration will facilitate the advance ■ to Germany. i ja fißsO ■MarminJ relief for gieumatic aches. LJE’S just used Sloan’s Iflfe * 1 Liniment and the quick comfort had brought a smile gQU/ of pleasure to his face. Good for aches resulting from weather exposure, . sprains, strains, lame back, SgEB'J overworked muscles. Pene trates without rubbing. All ‘j&W-O druggists have it. Bloattfs ■raws Like Hot Bax-Seed Poultice ■HsAIiS STUEBOEN OLD sores aßaS'? EBOM BOTTOM UP. ■EHst like a hot flaxseed poultice, Allen i Salve draws out poisons and germ> bolls, sores and wounds and deals them the bottom up. It heals in one-tbiro that common salves and liniments taae. 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That the love of woman led him to break finally and forever the sol emn vows he took and kept for twen ty years, is the explanation of the recent marriage and return to the world of James Cornell Biddle, mem ber of the famous Philadelphia fam ily and one-time Trappist monk, ob tained by The Evening World from a friend and former associate of Biddle’s in the Trappist Monastery in Kentucky known as the Abbey of Gethsemane. This friend, who him self spent a year at the abbey as postulant and novice, entering the day after Christmas. 1913, is P. C. Caulfield, of No. 305 Bedford Park Boulevard, now a stock and bond salesman in New York. “After twenty years of that peace, that protection, that soul-discipline which obtains in a Trappist monas tery,” Mr. Caulfield told me, “I know how Mr. Biddle—or Father Alberic. as we called him in the Abbey of Gethsemane must have suffered when he returned to the rough, hus tling world, where no one shows con sideration for any other. “Then he met a gentfe and sympa thetic woman, the Miss Mary Gaines whom he has just married. She was about his own age. She was nursing her brother. Her tenderness and sympathy undoubtedly aroused the j—_ v <<£, "■ . ijjirnffiffl «ia IhJ the. love of Mr. Biddle and for her sake he broke definitely his most solemn and sacred vows—something I be lieve he is sure to regret. For, what ever your religion may be, the vow you take in its name is a vow! If it had not been for his romance, for the fact that he fell in love. I feel sure that this man would have gone back to his monastery in the end.” Incidentally, if this strange story in real life shoulfl follow the course of a similar narrative in fiction, Mr. Biddle may yet turn from “Paradise,” to Gethsemane, from the Eden-named country home of his bride in Warren ton, Va., where he now plans to live, to the severe.^ -Rd cheerless life of the Trfpr’.;t at Gethsemane, Garden of Allah,” the and play by Robert Hichens, tne Trappist monk, Boris, who flees from his monastery and meets, woos and weds Domini, the woman of his love, is led back to the door of the monastery by Domini her self, who watches its door close for ever on her earthly happiness. As Mr. Biddle has pointed out, however, his own story differs from “The Garden of Allah” in that Boris always was tortured by doubts and remorse about his course and that Mr. Biddle feels himself at peace with his conscience. Also, of course, his wife knew of his past life when she married him, instead of learn ing of it after becoming a wife and a mother, as in the case of the Hichens heroine. It is only after hearing fron\ Mr. Caulfield a detailed and accurate de scription of the life lei for twenty years by the son of a former United States minister and one of America’s richest and most socially prominent families, that one fully realizes the enormous strength of will which must have been back of even the sincerest love for a wom an, if Mr. Biddle were to tear his life up by the roots as he has done. “I went to the monastery to make a retreat, arriving the day after Christmas in 1913,” Mr. Caulfield explained. He is a tall, dark-haired vigorous young man, apparently in the early thirties., “After I had been there a week,” he continued, “I de cided to enter the order and be came a postulant. Three months later I was a novice, Father Aebre dus. I would, have taken my first vows at the end of the second year, but I only remained a year alto gether. The life was too severe for BURGLARS STRIP CHRISTMAS TREE AT ALL SAINTS’ A beautifully decorated Christmas tree, bearing gifts fqr the children, was completely stripped by burg lars who entered the All Saints’ x-?is copal church at 256 West Peachtree street, Wednesday night. The tree was ready for the children’s Christ mas entertainment to be held Thurs day morning, and it was ornamented with colored candles, ribbons and tin sel. At the foot of it were more than 100 little gifts for the Sunday school boys and girls, arranged in dainty packages. There was candy thebe, in little boxes, with oranges and other goodies. The Sunday school workers had spent the whole day in making the tree attractive for the young folks. When the sexton came in Thursday mroning. everything was wrecked. The decorations had been torn from the tree, the gift boxes and candy were gone; the beautiful evergreens and wreaths in the room had been stripped of their ribbons and orna ments. Muddy footprints of the in truders had trampled what they did not steal. It seemed as though the robbers were angry at not having found more money in the church, and were venting their spite upon the children’s tree. They broke into every room in the church, and took everything which had the slightest value, and could be moved Even the rdbe case of Rev. W. W. Memminger, the rector, had been rudely broken open, and the vestments scattered over the floor. Even the janitor’s razor was stolen. Besides the Christmas gifts, and the other minor objects, the burglars did not find anything of great value dur ing their raid. During the same night the North Avenue Presbyterian church, at the corner of Peachtree street and North avenue, was robbed by burglars who showed a similarity of method to the operators in the All Saints’ church. The church linen chests were forc ed open and their contents taken; the study of Rev. Richard Orme Flinn, the pastor, was plundered, the desk being opened and the file cases strip ped. A silk-covered sofa pillow, a desk clock, postage stamps and a pair of scissors were among the oth er things missed. No money was found by the robbers. Both churches suffered consider able property damage from the hands of the plunderers. The workers were busy Thursday morning preparing for the Christmas entertainments, handicapped by the work of the rob bers. Two pictures of Mr. Biddle when he was Father Alberic —As che left he is in choir garb; at the right in working clotnes. 3 I * w so la -* \r kMI • -?1f. ■ ■ jk - ' I fi \ Sill fl me, much as I admire the good men who are pledged to it. “I had heard before entering that a member of the Biddle family was in the monastery, x and soon I no ticed him —a mofet distinguished looking man, who had taken his name of Father Alberic from the saint who originally founded the Cictercian order, of which the Trap pist order is the latest reform. Father Alberic stood six feet and a half in height, had gray hair and close-cropped beard and dark blue eyes. “He was a model monk all the time I was at the monastery, and no one heard of any doubts he may have had—although, of course, the monks are never allowed to talk to each other. It is not true that there is a rule of absolute silence, since they chant the offices, preach in English on the feast days and take part in the confession of faults — about which I will speak later. Fath er Alberic was particularly noted for the eloquence of his preach ing.” “Will you tell me just what was the daily life of Mr. Biddle, or Fath er Alberic?” I requested. “He rose with the other monks —there were about forty—at 2 a. m., except on Sunday and the ten or fifteen most important feast days of the year, when the rising time' was 1 a. m.,” explained Mr. Caul field. “From rising time until uarter past five was spent in the church chanting the offices. There was nev er any heat in the church, and you can judge how cold it must have been when I tell you that I wore heavy underwear, all my outer cloth ing, a heavy overcoat, gloves and a muffler, yet I suffered from the cold. The monks wore heavy woollen underwear, heavy shoes, a long straight white gown called a habit; over that a black scapular reaching just below the waist and over ev erything else the white cowl with hood and long sleeves. “I think that Father Alberic suf fered especially from the cold, for 1 used to hear him rubbing his hands morning after morning in an effort to keep warm. “At 5:15, he and the other monks went to the chapter room for the reading of the rule of St. Benedict, the patron of the Trappist order. Then came the confession of faults. The Abbot asked for it. in Latin, and the monks accused each other of Draws Lot for Charge And Pleads Guilty To the Heaviest One NEW YORK, Dec. 23.—Assistant District Attorney Sullivan, in gen eral sessions court today, held five slips of paper in his hand —five charges against Lawrence Haw thorne, 22-year-old youth held un der $100,500 bail for his part in the Hotel Astor holdup last week. Be side him sat the prisoner, waiting to plead to them. “I’ll draw one ‘card’ and plead guilty to the indictment on it,” Haw thorne said. “Which one?” asked the assistant district attorney. He held the slips as he would a poker hand. The indictments rang ed from assault to burglary in the first degree, punishable by “not less than ten. years in state prison.” “Any one will do.” Hawthorne drew at random. He picked “burglary in the first de gree,” the severest of the lot.” “Guilty to the charge, your hon or,” he said. Then he was led back to the Tombs. He will be sentenced Christ mas eve. « A suitcase with a reversible side, carrying two addresses, has been patented for shipping clothing be tween its owner and a laundry. HAMBONE’S MEDITATIONS — EF A MAN 6WINE GIT MUCH PLEASURE OUTEN HE WORK t HE GOT T' BE GITTIN’ SU6APN 'SIDES ' PLEASURE OUTEN IT/f ‘s®iO Copyright, 1920 by McClure Newspaper Syndicate, •X* <55 b- i J? ' Sy ; ''A v r -aT' L ' ; ■■ ; V■ -■ ■■■'■■ ’ - -■■ ■■' ■■y f >: ... . "7' derelictions noticed —such as banging the door, for example, or not getting up on time. No defense was permitted to the map accused. He had to con fess his fault publicly and fall at full length on the cold stone floor, staying there until he received his penance from the Abbot. I never heard of any sins committed by Father Alberic—-as I said, he was a model monk. “At 7 the monks took off z their cowls and went out to work cutting down trees, chopping or other rough labor, carrying their picks or axes over the left shoulder, walking in the order of seniority and holding their rosaries in their right hand. Father Alberic was favored by the Abbot to the extent that he was not, so far as I know, given the rough outside work performed by the other monks. In stead, he stayed at work in the li brary, cataloguing the books and writing sermons. “At 9:30 he went with the other monks to the church for the office of sext and solemn high mass. At 11:30 they all took their first meal of the day in the refectory. They never ate fish, eggs or meat, and a typical din ner would be a bowl of vegetable soup, a dish of beans, a thick slice of whole wheat bread and a pot of liquid made from berries grown on the Abbey grounds and tasting like a coffee substitute. "After dinner they were allowed a siesta for one hour in the summer. In winter they spent this time in the church. They worked in the fields from 2 to 3:30, and had supper, con sisting' of a hunk of whole wheat bread, an inch thick, and a cup of the liquid made from berries. Then they wefe allowed to read a little. At six the compline was read in the church and the monks sang the Salve Regina. After that came the “great silence” in the cloister. Father Al beric and all the monks had to retire at 8 in the summer, at 7 in the win ter. His bed and pillow were of straw pack<»J so tight that they were of the consistency of -<<cod, and on retiring only the shoes were removed. “But the Abbot was too lenient with Father Alberic,” young Mr. Caulfield added, seriously. “Besides not hav ing to do the rough work he was al lowed on several occasions to the abbey. He went home when his mother was sick, and afterward he went to Philadelphia to see a spe cialist. That wasn’t necessary, and I do not think he should ever have been allowed to go into the world. I think the abbot went contrary to dis cipline. In the monastery, you know, women are never allowed to come. “He will regret what he has done. If anything happened to me I would go back to spend the rest of my days at Gethsemane, and in the end be laid in a grave without a coffin, the same grave in which lay other monks who had borne my name; above us all one tablet with only the different death dates to tell one Father John from another.” CHEERLESS XMAS IS BEING FACED BY GERMAN FOLK BY GECKGE WITTE Special Cable to the Chicago Daily Newa Foreign Service, by Leased Wire to The Atlanta Journal.) (Copyright, 1920.) BERLIN. Germany, Dec. 23.—Like the United States, Santa Claus has not ye<. made peace with Germany and for that reason Christmas will be a rather cheerless affair for the larger part of the German people— more cheerless even than it was last year. Well stocked shops with gaily trimmed windows and the crowds of people to be seen everywhere 'would seem to indicate the opposite. But it is a homely truth that only a few among the crowds are laden with the parcels that bring joy to the children’s hearts. Most of them are just looking and not buying. Only those who know with what devotion the Germans before the war celebrated Christmas, which was the biggest holiday for all classes will appreciate what the loss of ability, on account of the sky-high prices properly to celebrate the oc casion means to the average German. But even the poorest of them are clinging to the tirhe-honored custom of having a Christmas tree and those who cannot afford to buy one go out into the snow and sleet after night fall to the nearest woods and take one. Thus, even though the times are extremely hard there will J>e a Christmas tree with a few candles burning in almost every home in Germany. The usual roast goose will, how ever, be missing, as geese of good quality cost eighteen marks (nor mally $4.50) a pound. There will be only a little cake and candy, as the government restrictions are so rigid that it is possible to get flour and sugar only with the greatest difficulty and expense. Taken all around conditions are far worse this year than they were a year ■-o. The Christmas crowds one se. everywhere look shabbier and re. e down-hearted than they did then. The number of beggars and unemployed has also increased. The American relief societies are do ing a good deal to alleviate the misery of the poorest children. Their activity is to some extent taking the place of the philanthropic work which the kaiserin and the imperial court used to do among the poor around Christmas time before and during the war. No German societies are now doing any work of this kind, so the Ameri cans have the field to themselves. But their funds are quite insufficient to reach a large percentage of the poor of whom there are now ten times as msny as before the war. CATTLE TICK IS BEING RAPIDLY BEATEN IN SOUTH WASHINGTON. Dec. 23.—The cat tle tick is fast being eliminated \hrough the work of the department cf agriculture and the co-operation of tlje states. Os the fifteen states which were tick-infested when the work of eradication systematically began on July 1, 1906, six of them have been completely freed of the pest. These states are California, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, South Carolina and TennesseA During the year ending December 1, 1920, more than 50,000 square miles were freed of ticks and since the work began in 1906, the area re leased has been 510,091 square miles. That is 70 per cent of the 728,565 square miles Infested with the tick when the eradication campaign be gan. The area remaining to be clear ed comprises 218,474 square miles, all of which is in the southern states. Progress of the work as announc ed by the department of agricul ture shows the total area infested July 1, 1906, and the area remaining December 1, 1920, with the percent age of area released, by states, as follows: \ Alabama: 51,279 square miles in fested; 3,252 square miles remain ing; 94 per cent of infested area re leased. Arkansas: 32,525 square miles in fested; 19,362 remaining; 63 per cent released. California: 79,824 square miles in fested; completely released. Florida: 54,861 square miles in fested; 47,980 remaining; 13 per cent released Georgia: 57,438 square miles in fested; 15,694 remaining; 73 per cent released. Kentucky: 841 square miles infest ed: completely released. Louisiana: 45,409 square miles infested; 15,490 remaining; 66 per cent released. Mississippi: 46.362 square miles in fested: completely released. -Missouri: 1,286 square miles in fested; completely released. North Carolina: 37,365 square miles infested: 10,087 remaining; 73 per cent released. • Oklahoma: 47,890 square miles in fested; 4,047 remaining; 92 per cent released. South Carolina: 30,495 square miles infested; completely released. Tennessee: 16,98-7 square miles in fested; completely released. Texas: 191,885 square miles infest ed; 100,606 remaining; 48 per cent released. Virginia: 13,918 square miles in fested; 1,686 remaining; 88 per cent "Too Much Water” Cause of Diseases, Wrote Pilgrim Father BOSTON, Dec. 23. —“Much drink ing of water” was considered by Gov ernor William Bradford, of Plymouth, a contributory cause of the ravages of disease and the shortness of life that afflicted the Pilgrims in the early days, Horace H. head of the historical department at Mount Hermon school, told the Bostonian society at a meeting last night. He quoted largely from the diary of Governor Bradford. The speaker also pointed put as a fact of cufious historic interest that Pastor John Robinson, who led the Pilgrims into Holland, but did not accompany them to New Eng land, had taxes remitted on one-half a case of beer a month and one hogs head of wine every three months be cause he held a professorship in the University of Ley-ien Whisky Guard Shot • By Auto Bandits CINCINNATI. Dec. 23.—Joseph Kline, of New York city, a guard of a truck loaded with whisky, bound from Frankfort, Ky., to New York city, was probably fatally wounded when several shots were fired late last night on Reading road, this city, in what police believe was an unsuccessful attempt to steal the whisky. The shooting, police were told, was done by six men in a touring car, who had followed the truck from Kentucky. No shots were fired by the guards, the police were in formed. Immediately after firing the men in the automobile speeded up their machine and disappeared in the darkness. The truck carried 250 cases of whiskey, valued at SIO,OOO. It was in charge of George M. Warden, a New York wholesale whisky deal er. Others on the truck were Wil liam Quinn, chauffeur, John Troy and Joseph Grady, all of New York. Ante-Bellum Romance Is Recalled by Will SAVANNAH, Ga., Dec. 23.—Melvin T. Nichols, formerly of Savannah but now of Gordon, Ga., is one of the beneficiaries under the will of Miss Sarah Marsh Kelly, of Haverhill, Mass., whose recent death recalls a Civil war romance which has re sulted in the ante-bellum belle leav ing her money to relatives of her fiance who was killed in the war. ■ The war hero was Major Henry Jackson How, and he was in love with Miss Kelly and she with him. He marched to war and when the news of his death came back to Ha verhill in August, 1862, his sweet heart went into mourning for him. She remained single until her death. Succeeds (McSwiney As Cork’s Lord Mayor J J’? DONALD O'CXXL C_AGHAfN This is the first picture received in America of Donald O’Callaghan, who succeeded the late Terrence Mac- Swiney as lord mayor of Cork, after MacSwiney’s death from his hunger strike. *• I SATURDAY, DECEMBER 25, 4920. Leap Year’s Almost Gone! Choose Well—But Do It Now! ! &O 1 0 \ wW Im// u igih i r : K } V « p//i ■ 1 w//' Hhßßßttnwk / wRHHBHn - Hfv W r \ ' Sp "lm ... J Better Find Someone Like Jack With Culinary Leanings! NEW YORK. —Last call for— Leap Year, girls! Or perhaps you consider every year Leap Year, now that you have won emancipation through the vote! In any event, when you set out to get you a husband, use discretion. Find one who will make you a good housekeeper! rind One Trained Well, why not? Suppose you are a successful milliner, making be tween $15,000 and $20,000 a year, let’s say, and you fall in love with a man making not more than $3,000 or $4,000 a year. What more logi cal than to train him into the house hold duties, that you may be re leased to bring in the larger in come? Or better still, fall in love with one who is already trained. Find a man like Jack Dempsey, for instance. Not that you need have any designs upon the heavyweight champion himself-r—just take him as an example. Jack‘has been batching] CENTENNIAL IS CELEBRATED BY r- BAPTIST'PAPER f The one hundredth anniversary number of the Christian Index, the organ and property of the Baptists of Georgia, which is edited by Louie D. Newton, was mailed to sub scribers Wednesday. This edition, whiqh is handsome ly bound, profusely illustrated and replete with valuable historical rec ords and other articles, is being sent to practically every center in the United States and throughout Eu rope, in addition to the 30,000 that will be distributed in Georgia. On the editorial page Mr. Newton has the following interesting com ment on the one hundred years of Baptist growth: “It was just a century ago that Baptist life in America semed to find rootage. The illuminating paper by Dr. W. J. McGlothlin, emphasizes the forces which account for this fact. “In this span of one hundred years, there has been one constant agent in every step of progress—the religious press. Our own denomination is but typical of the vital relation which all forward programs have enjoyed from the papers devoted to the spread of information and inspira tion. “It was in January, 1821, that Lu ther Rice established the Columbian Star, later merged into the Chris tian Index. There was one great reason for this master religious statesman desiring a Baptist pape’’ —he wanted to disseminate the in formation of the need of a dying world for the message of Christ. He had lately returned from his work as a missionary, and he knew how urgent was the task awaiting Bap tists and all other Christians. “The wave of awakening to the fields of service that were so ripe unto harvest, swept into the south and W. T. Brantley was among the first men to respond to the chal lenge. He was called to the pastor ate of the First church, Philadel phia, and soon became the editor of the paper. The paper was then for the adoption of the new name—The Christian Index. The paper was then moved to the south, where it has been an evangel of the several movements of our great Baptist pro gram looking to the salvation of the whole world. “It is a great tradition which gath ers on this occasion about the cen tury which the Index has passed. It fills our hearts with a sense of thanksgiving when we contemplate the service which it has rendered. How we wish that every man and woman who has worked for and with the paper for the coming of the Kingdom, might feel our true sense of gratitude for their wise leadership and unselfish contribution to the spread of Christianity. “We have tried to assemble all the voices, both from the present and the past, that could say for ev ery Georgia Baptist the things that may worthily be put down as 1 true records in our Baptist progress and as prophecies for the days that are to be. We hope that the Centennial number starts in the direction of this high goal, and we herewith ded icate it to the three hundred and fifty thousand wJiite Baptists of Georgia as an huihble effort to com memorate the glorious work of our denomination.” Commercial Treaty With Siam Sent to Congress by Wilson WASHINGTON, Dec. 23.—Presi dent Wilson today sent to the senate a commercial treaty with Siam and a report of the. proceedings of the International Dairy congress. Mr. Wilson also announced his ap proval of a bill providing for dis tinguished service medals for officers and men in the merchant marine service. Authority to invite officially dele gates from foreign countries to par ticipate in the projected world’s dairy congress here in 1922 was requested. - It in New York lately, with only a couple of colored women to look ■ after his apartment. i “Pretty good cooks,” he says, “but every once in a while I have i to teach ’em how to make some thing. He Was Too Good “I was a cook once. Sure, and a good one, too! Folks kept a little store in Montrose, Col., and decided tp add a quick lunch counter to it. I drew the job of night manager of the place, which meant I was night cook and night waiter. Busi ness was great—that is as far as volume was concerned. But it didn’t last long. I sort of wrecked it! “I got it into my head that an' order of ham and eggs meant about six eggs and several thick slices of ham. Made a hit with the custom ers—but not with my dad!” Wouldn’t it make a hit with you, too, girls? Better find somebody like Jack with culinary leanings! Byron Bank Cashier Held Up: SI,OOO Taken; Men Reported Hemmed MACON, Ga., Dec. 23. —The Bank of Byron, seventeen miles from Ma con, was robbed of SI,OOO in cash late Wednesday afternoon by two white men who covered the cashier with pistols while he was counting the money. The bandits, after securing the cash, jumped into an automobile which had been left by them in front of the bank and left Bvron at a rapid rate, going towards Perry. It is reported that the two men were surrounded in a swamp 'by a posse in Houston county near the Bibb county line and their early cap ture is expected. The automobile was found in a ditch and idetified as that stolen from M. C. Nisbet, clerk of the Bibb superior cout, about 3 o’clock in the afternoon. J Go I lam making the greatest price and quality drive of my ’ E»w life, this year, right now. I have smashed feather bed and pillow WjSgBIWSWi prices way down. The profiteers all over thecountry are tryingtO keep up war-time prices and send them higher. I’m lighting them. This year I can save you more money than ever and give you better Sag%gs quality. 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Wine of Pepsin (designed to be used for ME- i DICINAL. PURPOSES only), contains ingredients ap proved for the purpose by the wisest of men for thousands of years. It gives a wonderful zest and vigor jbw to the appetite, promotes restful sleep, and is Nature’s most pleasing digestant. SEND NO MONEY ■ .•■"■W Try CONSUMERS’ Wine of Pepsin—AT OUR RISK. JQ - >?S| Mail us the coupon, or write, and we will send you ft ' -ySI luart in plain wrapper, securely sealed—to try. Use ONE HALF the contents. Convince yourself Its action is just what you desire in a stomach tonic of mild, pure, invig- > arating nature. Then —and not till then—decide If you f want to keep the goods. If not, send back the unused pot- / tion and you will owe us NOT ONE CENT. X • OUB GREAT OEFEB X lend us the coupon—now. When ths X COUPO.' luart arrives, pay the postman our Xcon »timers special introductory'price of only Drug Co., Depi <2.75, and postage, and try one-half N .i, 300 W. S contents of bottle at our risk. If you X Water St., are not more than pleased, send the eago, Hl. unusued portion back to us within one quart five days— at our expense— and we Pepsin, sec u r will at once refund your $2.75, plus sealed. Ti <“* postage. In full. Write today. postman $2.75, -tSeI age. It is Consumers’ Drug Co. (Not Inc.) nse one half content«M . Dept. N. 1., 300 W. S.Water St, not satisfied, may Chicago, 111. nsed portion at yow ■ L within five days. You to return my $2.75 and f” 11 ’ at once. Name ~ Address :r. TO CRU2 - ■| H i.IS I Mt '•‘■'‘A’ ' : ■ 1 >•• ■r l " 1 >’ Hl ■ 'Xi ; ! ■ l O frontif-r, is said '’‘Cl thmu-ii Kad.iklis*. ’• -&!{#* <;. • .:-tr n vpald .WsV .J v . ,«B Sov:et troops along A z.-rl-a :,i 1 u pianm-d an o^M' - , , ( this month against yi move was conn• ermanded - from M Shiemann, soviet tive here, who thought for an offensive camapign arrived. Hope is entertained drive seemnigly immident at may be postponed at the last Independent Georgia has been erated by the Bolshevik because the trade advantages offered at Baß turn, which has been regarded it 9 Moscow as a corridor which permit ted the Bolsheviki to bring in sup plies from Europe. Reliable Infor mation from Batum, however, indi cates serious disturbances, the Geor gian garrison there having revolted This resulted in a panic and stormed the ships in the harhg’r seeking to escape before the tpriva of Bolshevik troops, which jvere re ported in the neighborhood. It is understood the allies regarf the situation so serious that thej have considered sending warships t< insure the evacuation of allied mis sions in Georgia. The recent oil agreement conclude'’ between soviet Russia and Georgi has not been carried out, and as ; consequence train to t r i IPP .11 *'' '•ad ks* A f -’ places. Genuine ArJ,O*A| Shirts, l /2 'lairif vpr. .t l.y tlie fa -,’iany thousands of the 'JaM fur I n. le Sam's boys. ft" >’ -.‘-SmS >mil < y V /\_ y shirts ) " i,ii: ' i stock \ v z Offer v<9BVjLy¥«t ; - 1 .'%%a a f " r AHbiHI V $5.00 I'.Wjy itle slur ■ V r— — 11 " m 111 i 1' »£-9#| [ Tj entire lot . L~JL nnd bines, ’ t ' ,llnr " nr I a matter of k-t if mail us a si.of) on each AJJ tiered, balance ———livery. State neck $2.75 each size and color Two fnr JRK nn We will 8hl P coM IBOIOF ?0.00 wanted if but reserve the right to substitute oths ’ colors, with the privilege on your part t \ return for exchange if unsatisfactory. Kingsley Army Shoe CompaM 3852 Cottage Grove Ave., Dept. N-2CB Chicago, 111. | Direct from Factory to You isl AU SIZES AND STYEES LB 2.3.4.6,8.12. 46. 22 and 30 H-P< ;3g srt pruportionatdy Low Vrices. AdMHfl for 2 H E. is for cngino complete on e to use. FYom I’ittsburtrh add ?5. Quick Write or wire fur Big New Engine Witte Engine WorWwl 2636 Oakland Ave. KANSAS Cl 26 56 Empire Bldg. PITTSBURdIMi 26-Piece Silveroid Set gWO Full size use; will neveraH| nish; P :lttern - Simply 4 o packets t valuable given. The Wilson Seed Co. ( ZX7>f. 554 TyroneM||