Demonic aan Bellefonte, Pa, May 6, 1921. Bull Dog Drummond (Continued from page 2 Col. 3). fon’s face. “It isn’t his thumb that concerns me,” he continued; “it's his general condition. What's the matter with him?” The doctor pursed his lips and looked wise, while Drummond woz: dered that no one had ever passed a law allowing men of his type to be murdered on sight. “His heart seems sound,” he an- swered after a weighty pause, “and I found nothing wrong with him con- stitutionally. In fact, I may say, Captain Drummond, he is in every respect a most healthy man. Except —er—except for this peculiar condi- tion.” Drummond exploded. “Damnation take it, man, what on earth do you suppose I asked you to come round for? It's of no interest to me to hear that his liver is working properly.” Then he controlled himself. “I beg your pardon, doctor; I had rather a trying evening last night. Can you give me any idea as to what has caused this peculiar condition?” His companion accepted the apology with an acid bow. “Some form of drug,” he answered. Drummond heaved a sigh of relief. “Now we're getting on,” he fried. “Have you any idea what drug?’ “It is, at the moment, hard to say,” returned the other. “In a day or two, perhaps, I might be able to—er—ar- rive at some conclusion a “Which, at present, you have not. Right; now we know where we are, As you don’t know what the drug is, presumably you don’t know either how long it will take for the effect to wear off.” “That—er—is, within limits, rect,” conceded the doctor. “What about diet?” “Oh! light. Not too much meat. No alcohol kd He rose to his feet as Hugh opened the door; really the war seemed to have produced a distressing effect on people’s manners. Diet was the one question on which he always let him- self go. “Not much meat—no alcohol. Right. Good morning, doctor. Down the stairs and straight on. Good morn- ing,” The door closed behind him, and he descended to his waiting car with cold disapproval on his face. “Excuse me, Sir.” The doctor paused and eyed a well-dressed man who had spoken to him uncompro- misingly. “Am I right in assuming that you are a doctor?” “You are perfectly correct, sir, in your assumption.” cor- The man smiled: obviously a gen- tleman, thought the practitioner, with his hand on the door of his car. “It’s about a great pal of mine, Captain Drummond, who lives in here,” went on the other. “I hope you won't think it unprofessional, but I thought I'd ask you privately, how you find him.” The doctor looked surprised. “Cap- tain Drummond, so far as I am aware, has never been better. I—er—cannot say the same of his friend.” He stepped into his ear. “Why not go up | and see for yourself?” The car rolled smoothly into Pie- cadilly, but the man showed no signs of availing himself of the doctor's suggestion. He turned and walked rapidly away, and a few moments later —in an exclusive West End club— a trunk call was put through to Godalming—a call which caused the recipient to nod his head in satisfac- tion and order the Rolls-Royce. Meanwhile, unconscious of this sud- den solicitude for his health, Hugh Drummond was once more occupied with the piece of paper he had been studying on the doctor’s entrance. Beyond establishing the fact that the man in the peculiar condition was Hiram C. Potts, the Amedican multi- anfllionaire, he could make nothing out of it. “If only I'd managed to get the whole of it,” he muttered td himself for the twentieth time. “That dam’ fellah Peterson was too quick.” The scrap he had torn off was typewrit- ten, save for the Americans scrawled signature, and Hugh knew the words by heart. i plete paralysis ade of Britain months I do the holder of of five million do desire and carl necklace and the are at present chess of Lam-p k no questions btained. AM. C. POTTS. At length he replaced the scrap in his pocket-book and rang the bell. “James,” he remarked as his Serv- ant came in: “You'd better know that as far as I can see were up against a tough proposition.” “Indeed, sir,” murmured his servant, “The gentleman is asking for you, slr.” Mrs. Denny's voice from the door made them look round. Hugh walked quickly along the pass- age to the room where the million- aire lay in bed. “How are you feeling?” said Drum- mond cheerfully. The man stared at him uncompre- hendingly, and shook his head. “Do you remember last night?” Hugh continued, speaking very slowly and distinctly. Then a sudden idea struck him and he pulled the scrap of © Rbk paper out of his case, “Do you re- member signing that?” For a while the man looked at it; then with a sudden cry of fear he shrank away. “No, no,” he muttered, not .again.” Hugh hurriedly replaced the paper. “Bad break on my part, old bean; you evidently remember rather too well. aw in Mysess f i l d | I a i gli ill i i i) a t “No, No,” He Muttered, “Not Again.” It's quite all right,” he continued re- assuringly; “No one will hurt you,” Then after a pause—“Is your name Hiram C. Potts?” The man nodded his head doubtful- ly and muttered “Hiram Potts” once or twice, as if the words sounded familiar. “Do you remember driving in a motor car last night?” persisted Hugh. But what little flash of remem- brance had pierced the drug-clouded brain seemed to have passed; the man only stared dazedly at the speak- er. Drummond tried him with a few more questions, but it was no use, and after a while he got up and moved toward the door. : “Don’t you worry, old son,” he said with a smile. “We'll have you jump- ing about like a two-year-old in a "couple of days.” Then he paused; the man was evi- "dently trying to say something. “What Is it you want?’ Hugh leant over the bed. “Danger, danger.” Faintly the "words came, and then, with a sigh, he lay back exhausted. With a grim smile Drummond watched the motionless figure. “I'm afraid,” he said half aloud, “that you're rather like your medical ‘attendant. Your only contribution to ‘the sphere of pure knowledge is something I know already.” He went out and quietly closed the door. And as he re-entered his sit- ting-room he found his servant stand- ing motionless behind one of the cur- tains watching the street below. “There's a man, sir,” he remarked without turning around, “watching the house.” For a moment Hugh stood still, frowning. Then he gave a short laugh. “The devil there is!” he re- marked. “The game has begun in earnest, my worthy warrior, with the first nine points to us. For posses- sion. even of a semi-dazed lunatic, is nine points of the law, is it not, James?” TWO. At twelve o'clock precisely the bell rang, announcing a visitor, and Drum- ‘mond locked up, as his servant came into the room. “Yes, James,” he remarked, “Il think we are at home. I want you to ‘remair within call, and under no cir- curastances let our sick visitor our of your sight for mere than & minute. | | | in fact, I think you'd better sit 1 1s room.” James, with a curt “Very goon sir,” left the room. Almost at once he returned, and flinging open tbe door, announced Mr. Peterson, Drummond looked up quickly and rose with a smile. “Good morning,” he cried. “This is a very pleasant surprise, Mr. Pefer- <on.” He waved his visitor to a chair, “Hope you've hid no move trouble with your car.” Mr. Peterson drew off his gloves. smiling amiably. “None at all, thank you, Captain Drummond. The chaut- feur appears to have mastered tbe defect.” “It was your eye on him that did it. Wonderful thing—the human optic, as I said to your friend, Mr. —Mr. Lakington. I hope that he’s quite well and taking nourishment.” “Soft food only,” said the other genially. “Mr. Lakington had a most unpleasant accident last night—most unpleasant.” Hugh's face expressed his sympa- thy. “How very unfortunate!” he murmured, ~ “I trust nothing serious.” “I fear his lower jaw was fractured tn two places.” Peterson helped him: self to a cigarette from the box be- side him. “The man who hit him must have been a boxer.” (To be Contiued. ————— i e——— A French scientist says that by examining an egg he can tell whether it will produce a male or a female chick. The egg that will hatch out a rooster is slightly heavier relatively to size. . Goods in Bellefonte. ! plies. Barber Shop in Connection. Salvation Army Plans Waif Care. _An old dream of the Salvation Ar- my to establish a community for the care of waifs from all over the coun- try is about to be realized, Command- er Evangeline Booth announced, through the gift of a tract of land near Greenville, S. C., for that pur- ose. r In accepting the gift, Miss Booth promised the plan will become a real- ity within ten years. The land com- prises 105 acres overlooking the city and includes a 85-acre peach orchard. It was the gift of W. W. Burgess, a Greenville manufacturer, who made it as a memorial to his young son who died recently. A colony for children alone will be built upon the tract, Commander Booth said. There will be schools, a church, a hospital, modern homes and other necessary buildings. Orphans, hospital waifs and street childern from every city in the country will be ter starts in life. “No more desirable spot for the children’s village can be found,” said Commander Booth on making the an- nouncement. The gift was a volun- tary one, following an address the Ar- my leader made in Greenville recently. The land overlooks the Blue Ridge mountains on an elevation that com- mands a sweeping view of Greenville and the surrounding territory. sent there to gain education and bet- ——The centuries-old Eskimo meth- od of freezing freshly caught fish in salt water to preserve them has been revived in a more modern way by a plant in Los Angeles. The plant has a capacity of 140 tons a day and is shipping to distant ports as well as supplying local markets. Zero-tem- peratured brine is kept in motion over trays of fish for about an hour, or un- til the freezing is complete. ——Subscribe for the “Watchman.” very Dollar you S ? The Watchman’s Buy-at-Home Campaign . Read these articles with care. They may present something you hadn’t thought of before. Patronize the people whose ads appear here. They are your neighbors and will treat you right. culation in Bellefonte. If You Buy Out, AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANAANAAAS AAI Everything in Furniture. Phonographs and Records. NAGINEY’S Send Us Your Grocery Order Today It Will Pay You." CITY CASH GROCERY Allegheny St. The Latest in Dry Goods and Ladies’ and Misses Ready to Wear. HAZEL & CO. I'he Headquarters for Athletic Smoker Sup- RUHL’S Under First Nat. Bank. Our Grocery Line is always complete and we invite your pa- tronage. BROUSES ‘High St. i Willard is the Storage Battery of Serv- ice. Any make battery repair- ed and recharged. WITMER’S Studebaker Expert Repairing on All Makes of Cars. BEEZER’S GARAGE. The House of Service when it Comes to Hardware THE POTTER-HOY Co. Our Meats are always fresh and wholesome Phone Your Order. ECKEL’S MARKET We Do Not Recommend Ford parts that are not genu- ine. Make our garage your headquarters, Ford owners. BEATTY MOTOR CO. This Week A Special on Belle Meade Sweets, Milliard’s and Lonis Sherry Can- dies. THE MOTT DRUG Co. Gross Bros. Good Bran. ....v,.cssvsnss 68 5 pounds Coffee....... «eae 95C 5 Soap..... cise 280 3 Jersey Flake.... crienie 23€C 1 Large can Peaches........ 28¢ BELLEFONTE, PA. sesec seen ASKING FAVORS OF MAIL ORDER HOUSE | Interesting Results Might Be Ob: tained by Making Certain Requests. LOCAL MERCHANTS HELPFUL Do All the Things for the People of Their Community That the Catalogue Concerns Will Not Do. (Copyright, 1917, Western Newspaper Union.) It has been said that three-fourths or nine-tenths, or some such big pro- portion—the exact figures do not mat- ter—of the business of the world is done on credit. If this was not true there wouldn’t be much business done for no currency system could be de- vised that would furnish enough money to meet the needs of commerce if ev- ery article sold had to be paid for in actual cash. The amount of money in circulation in the United States is only $47 per capita and this would not go very far if everyone had to keep enough cash on hand to pay for all that he might buy. The greatest of financiers need cred- it. They keep their resources employ- ed and at times are in need of ready cash. The same thing is true at times of men of smaller means. system, as it is used sometimes, espe- cially in the smaller communities, is abused and works a serious hardship upon the business men of the town. Some merchants, to avoid the loss that results from such abuse of the system or possibly to enable them to sell goods at a lower price than their com- petitors, qperate strictly on a cash ba- sis, but the great majority of mer- chants in every community give those customers who are responsible and honest the privilege of a charge ac- count and the chances are that some sort of a credit system, properly safe- guarded, will always continue to be a feature of legitimate trade. Ask Catalogue House for Credit. You who have a reputation in your community for being at least fairly re- sponsible and upright know that when vou desire it or need it you can obtain credit from at least some of the mer- chants in your town. But some time when you are in need of some article of merchandise and are a little short ~¢ ready money, order what you want from a mail order house in Chicago or some other city and ask them to please charge it till the first of the month. The experiment will be interesting, at The credit The money you spend with them stays in cir- least, and the answer that you receive may cause you to give a little thought to the difference between trading with ! the mail order house in some far-off I city and buying from the merchants in ' your own home town. i Some mail order concerns are now operating a so-called credit system, but it is not a credit system such as is maintained by most retail merchants. i These mail order houses will sell cer- tain merchandise on the installment ~ plan, but they not only demand an ' initial cash payment, but require the purchaser to sign a ccatract which operates as a mortgage not only on the merchandise purchased, but upon any other property that the customer may possess. There is nothing in this system that bears any similarity to the .open credit system that is used by the majority of retail merchants. There are some other requests you ' might make of the mail order man :when the occasion arises and the re- , sponses might be equally interesting. For instance, you, Mrs. Farmer, who jbought that box of groceries from the catalogue house last month, might write the manager and ask him to buy your butter and eggs. Of course, it . would be considerable more trouble to pack them for shipment to the city than it is to take them in to your lo- cal grocer, who is always ready to pay you the market price for them, but then maybe the mail order man would pay you enough more than the market price to pay you for the extra trouble. And then again, maybe he wouldn’t. And, then, there is that mowing machine that you, Mr. Farmer, have been figuring on trading in for a new machine. Suppose you write to the mail order man from whom you bought that wire fencing and ask him what he will allow you for your old machine on a trade for a new one, Of course, . the local hardware dealer in the town ' where you find a market for your farm products will allow you a fair price for your old machine, but what's the use of asking him to do it. The mail | order man surely will be glad to do that much for you, will he not? Yes, he will not. List Is Endlesc. There are a good many things the mail order man will not do for you. The list would be too long to crowd into one issue of a newspaper. He will nut give you credit, however much you may need it. He will not buy the farmer’s produce. He will not pay a dollar of taxes to help support your schools or build your roads. He will not contribute a cent to the sup- port of your churches or your charita- ble institutions. He will not lend you a helping hand in time of trouble. The local merchants in a community will do everything for the people ia that community that the mail order man wi’i not do for them. This fact shoul@ riake it easy for the pecple of the community to decide which it is to their interest to do business with. Books, Stationery and Post Cards. The Index Book Store Special This Week 50 1b. Cotton Mattress, $10.75 50 1b. Cotton felt Mattress $13.75 BRACHBILL’S. of Town and I Buy Out, of Town, What. will Become of Our Town? Shoes for the entire family at right prices YEAGER’S The Rexall Store and that means quality. Special attention given to prescriptions. Runkle’s Drug Store The Home of the famous Butter Krust Bread. Confectionery and Goods. The City Bakery Baked Everything in Lumber, Sashes, Doors and Blinds. The Bellefonte Lumber Co. The Home of Hart, Schaff- ner and Marx Clothing for Men. Also a complete line of Men's and Boy’s furnishings. MONTGOMERY & CO. The Edison is the peer of Phonographs. Come in and hear one today. Records, Pianos, Player- Pianos. GHEEN’S MUSIC STORE. We Are Still in the Hardware business at the old Stand. Every- thing complete always. OLEWINES Wholesale and Retail fruits and produce. A complete line of imported Ol- ive Oil. CARPENETO & CO. When In Town See the best in Motion Pictures at the Scenic. SCENIC THEATRE Weaver, Grocers Bellefonte, Pa. The Best in Dry Goods and ILadies Ready to Wear. SCHLOW’S Everything in Electric Sup- plies. THE ELECTRIC SUPPLY CO. LAUDERBACH-ZERBY CO. Wholesale Grocers YOUR HOME OPTOMETRIST Fitting glasses for 15 years. Satisfaction guaranted. CASEBEER’S Registered Optometrist. The First National Bank invites your patronage. THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF BELLEFONTE. Have your Vulcanizing Done Now. A full line of Tires and Acces- sories. BELLEFONTE STEAM VULC. CO. This Market is now under New Manage- ment and we Solicit Your Patronage FRESH MEATS DAILY KLINE’S Formerly Lyon’s Market | | The Bellefonte Trust Co. Courtesy. Safety. The Bellefonte Trust Co. Service. Furnishings of the best for men and boys. Every line complete and up- to-date. WILLARD & SON COHEN’S The Complete Department- Store. Everything for the family. COHEN’S The Variety Store SPIGELMYER & CO. for men who are careful of ap- pearances. A full line of Men’s and Boy’s furnishings. SIM THE CLOTHIER HABERDASHERS. NEW GROCERY Th GC A full line of groceries at reduced prices. e 70 tore : A full line of Fld and domestic fruits gery of A Special in season. Klink’s bacon and ham, fresh Wholesome Goods and : 4 trom the, market. Cream cheese Sspedstins Prompt Service Sale of all Sizes of Tires very 50c. pure Ww v v 5 coupon for Book silverware. Ask for for this Week. them. ’ ALTERS & STOVER WI High St., opposite P. R. R. Station. Suc- H A Z E L S ON GARAGE cessors to Sechler & Co. * Clothing of the Be oping o oy W. S. Katz DRY GOODS Ladies Ready to Wear When You Want Hardware of any description call and see us. We invite your patronage. BELLEFONTE HARDWARE CO. Everything in Hardware for Farm, Dairy and Home. GLENWOOD RANGES, SCHAEFFER'S The Watchman has always advised buying at home, and it buys at home itself. Queen Quality Shoes for Women Regal Shoes for men We fit the Youngsters, too, MINGLE’S SHOE STORE.
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