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.
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“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.
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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.
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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.
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The Latest
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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
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5 Soap..... cise 280
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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
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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.
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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. ’
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High St., opposite P. R. R. Station. Suc- H A Z E L S ON GARAGE
cessors to Sechler & Co.
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Clothing of the Be
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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.