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Bull-Dog
Drummond
The Adventures of a
Demobilized Officer Who
Found Peace Dull
by CYRIL McNEILE
“SAPPER”
ILLUSTRATIONS BY
IRWIN MYERS
Copyright by Ges. H. Doran Ce.
(Continued from last week.)
“Why,” he spluttered after a mo-
ment, “a lot of these people’s names
are absolutely household words in the
country. They may be swine—they
probably are. Thank God! I've very
rarely met any; but they ain't crimi-
nals.”
“No more is Peterson,” grinned the
American; “at least not on that book.
See here, Captain, it’s pretty clear
what's happening. In any country to-
day you've got all sorts and conditions
of people with more wind than brain.
They just can’t stop talking, and as yet
it’s not a criminal offense. Some of
‘em believe what they say, like spin-
dle-shanks upstairs; some of ’em don’t.
And if they don’t, it makes em worse;
they start writing as well. You've got
clever men—intellectual mén—look at
some of those guys in the first-class
general lecturers—and they're the
worst of the lot. Then you've got an-
other class—the men with the business
brain, who think they’re getting the
sticky end of it, and use the talkers
to pull the chestnuts out of the fire for
them. And the chestnuts, who are the
poor blamed decent workingmen, are
promptly dropped in the ashpit to keep
em quiet. They all want something for
nething, and I guess it can’t be dona
They all think they‘re fooling one an-
other, and what's really going at the
moment is that Petersen is fooling the
whole bunch. He wants all the strings
in his hands, and it looks to me as it
he’d got 'em there. He's got the money
—and we know where he got it from;
he’s got the orgamization—all either
red-hot revolutionaries, or intellectual
windstorms, or calculating knaves.
He's amalgamated ’em, Captain; and
the whole blamed lot, whatever they
may think, are really working for
him.”
Drummond thoughtfully lit a cig-
arette.
“Working towsrd a revolution in
this country,” he remarked quietly.
“Sure thing,” answered the Ameri-
can. “And when he brings it off, 1
guess you won't catch Peterson for
dust. He'll pocket the boodle, and the
boobs will stew in their own juice. 1
guessed it in Paris; that book makes
it a certainty. But it ain't criminal.
In a court of law he could swear it was
an organization for selling bird-sced.”
For a while Drummond smoked in
silence, while the two sleepers shifted
uneasily in their chairs. It all seemed
so simple in spite of the immensity of
the scheme. Like most normal Engiish-
men, politics and labor disputes had
left him cold in the past; but no one
who ever glanced at a newspaper
- could be ignorant of the volcano that
had been simmering just beneath the
surface for years past.
“Not one in a hundred”—the Amerl-
can’s voice broke into his train of
thought—*“of the so-called revolution-
ary leaders in this country are disin-
terested, Captain.
Number One, and when they've talked
the boys into bloody murder, and your
existing social system is down-and-out,
they'll be the leaders in the new one.
That's what they're playing for—
power; and when they've got it, Goda
help the men who gave it to 'em.”
Drummond nodded, and lit another
cigarette. Odd things he had read re-
curred to him: trade unions refusing
to allow discharged soldiers to join
them ; the reiterated threats of direct
action. And to what end?
A passage in a part of the ledger evi.
dently devoted to extracts from the
speeches of the first-class general lec-
turers caught his eye:
“To me, the big fact of modern life is
the war between classes. . . . People
declare that the method of direct ac-
tien inside a country will produce a
revolution. I agree . . . it involves
the creation of an army. ..."”
And beside the cutting was a nove
by Peterson in red ink:
“An excellent man!
tracted tour.”
The note of exclamation appealed to
Hugh; he could see the. writer's
tongue in his cheek as he put it in.
“It involves the creation of an army.
_..” The words of the intimidated
rabbit came back to his mind. “The
man of stupendous organizing power,
who has brought together and welded
into one the hundreds of societies sim-
ilar to mine, who before this have
each, on their own, been feebly strug-
gling toward the light. Now we are
combined, and our strength Is due to
him.”
In other words, the army was on the
road to completion, an army where
ninety per cent of the fighters—duped
*w the remaining ten—would struggle
blindly towards a dim, half-understood
goal, only to find out too late that the
whip of Solomon had been exchanged
for the scorpion of his son.
“Why can’t they he made to under-
stand, Mr. Green?’ he cried bitterly.
“The working man—the decent fel-
low—"
Send for pro-
They're out for:
“Has anyone tried to make ’em un-
derstand, Captain? I guess I'm no in-
tellectual guy, but there was a French
writer fellow—Victor Hugo—who
wrote something that sure hit the nail
on the head. I copied it out, for it
seemed good to me.” From his pocket-
book he produced a slip of paper. “ ‘The
faults of women, children, servants,
the weak, the indigent and the ignorant
are the faults of husbands, fathers,
masters, the strong, the rich, and the
learned.’ Wall!” he leaned back in his
chair, “there you are. Their proper
ieaders have sure failed them, so
they're running after that bunch of
cross-eyed skaters. And sitting here,
watching ’em run, and laughing fit to
beat the band, is your pal Peterson!”
It was at that moment that the tele-
phone bell rang, and after a slight hes-
itation Hugh picked up the receiver.
“Very well,” he grunted, after listen-
ing for a while, “I will tell him.”
He replaced the receiver and turned
to the American.
“Mr. Ditchling will be here for the
meeting at two, and Peterson will be
late.” he announced slowly.
“What's Ditchling when he's at
home?” asked the other.
“One of the so-called leaders.” an-
swered Hugh briefly, turning over the
pages of the ledger. ‘Here's his dos-
sier, according to Peterson. ‘Ditehling,
Charles. Good speaker: clever; un-
scrupulous. Requires big money ; worth
it. Drinks.”
For a while they stared at the brief
summary, and then the American burst
into a guffaw of laughter.
“The mistake you've made. Captain,
in this country, i3 not giving Peterson
a seat In your cabinet. He'd have the
whoie caboose eating out of his hand;
and if you paid him a few hundred
thousand a year, he might run stiight
and grow pigs as a hobby. . ..”
TWO.
It was a couple of hours later that
Hugh rang up his rooms in Half Moon
street. From Algy, who spcke to him,
he gathered that Phyllis and her fa-
ther were quite safe. He also found
out another thing—that Ted Jerning-
ham had just arrived with the hapless
Potts in tow, who was apparently suf-
pelently recovered tu talk sensa. He
was weak still and dazed, but no long-
er imbecile.
“Tell Ted to bring him down to The
fling at once,” ordered Hugh. “There's
a compatriot of his here, waiting to
welcome him with open arms.”
“Potts is coming, Mr. Green,” he
said, putting down the receiver. “Our
Hiram O. And he's talking sense. It
seems to me that we may get a little
light thrown on the activities of Mr.
Hocking and Herr Steinemann, and
the other bloke.”
The American nodded slowly.
“Yon Gratz,” he sald. “I remember
his name now. Steel man. Maybe
vau're_ right, Captain, and that he |
knows something; anyway, I guess
Hiram C. Potts and I stick closer than
brothers till I restore him to the bosom
of his family.”
But Mr. Potts, when he did arrive,
exhibited no great inclination to stick
close to the detective; in fact, he
showed the greatest reluctance to en-
ter the house at all. As Algy had
said, he was still weak and dazed, and
the sight of the place where he had
suffered so much produced such an ef-
fect on him that for a while Hugh
feared he was going to have a relapse.
At length, however, he seemed to get
back his confidence, and was persuad-
ed to come into the central room.
“It’s all right, Mr. Potts,” Drummend
assured him over and over again.
“Their gang is dispersed, and Laking-
ton is dead. We're all friends here
row. You're quite safe. This is Mr.
Green, who has come over from New
York especially to find you and take
vou back to your family.”
The millionaire stared in silence at
the detective, who rolled his cigar
round in his mouth.
“That's right, Mr. Potts. There’s the
little old sign.” He threw back his
coat, showing the police badge, and
the millionaire nodded. “I guess you've
Fad things humming on the other side,
and if it hadn’t been for the Captain
Lere and his friends, they’d be hum-
ming still.”
“I'm obliged to you, sir,” said the
American, speaking for the first time
to Hugh. The words were slow and
The Millionaire Stared in Slience at
“the Detective.
hesitating, as if he was not quite sure
of his voice. “I seem to remember
vour face,” he continued, “as part of
the awful nightmare I've suffered the
last few days—or is it weeks? I seem
40 remember having seen you, and you
were always kind.” r
“That’s all over now, Mr. Potts,” said
Hugh gently. “You got into the
clutches of the most infernal gang of
swine, and we've been trying to get
you out again.” He looked at him
quietly. “Do you think you can re-
member enough to tell us what hap-
pened at the beginning? Take your
time.” Le urged. “There's no hurry.”
The millionaire passed his hand daz-
edly over his forehead.
“I was stopping at the Carlton,” he
began, “with Granger, my secretary.
I sent him over to Belfast on a ship-
ping deal and—” He paused and
looked round the group. “Where is
ranger?” he asked.
“Mr. Granger was murdered in Bei-
fast, Mr. Potts,” said Drummond quiet-
ly, “by a member of the gang that
k!dnaped you.”
“Murdered! Jimmy Granger mur-
dered!” He almost cried in his weak-
ness. “WRWat did the swine want to
murder him for?”
“Because they wanted yeu alone’
explaineil Hugh. “Private secretaries
ask awkward questions.”
After a while the millionaire recov-
ered his composure, and with many
breaks and pauses the slow, disjointed
story continued:
“Lakington! That was the name of
the man I met at the Carlton. And
tien there was another . . . Peter
Peterson. That's it. We all
dined together, I remember, and fit
was after dinner, in my private sitting
room, that Peterson put up his propo-
sition to me. . . . It was a sugges-
tion that he thought would appeal to
me as a business mag. = Ile sald—what
was i{t?—that he could produce a gi-
gsntic nyudicalist strike in England—
revolution, in fact; and that as one of
the higgest shipowners—the biggest,
in fact—outside this country, I should
be abie to eapture a lot of the British
carrying trade. lle wantéd two hun-
red and fifty thousend peunds to do
it, paid one month after the result was
obtained. .
in at.
“On that valuation, * interrupted the
detective, thoughtfully, “it makes one
wlllion pounds sterling,” and Drum-
mond nodded. “Yes, Mr. Potts; and
then?”
“I told him,” said the millionaire,
“that he was an infernal scoundrel,
and that I'd have nothing whatever to
do with such a villainous scheme. And
then—almost the last thing I can re-
member—I saw Peterson look at Lak-
ington. Then they both sprang on me,
and I felt something prick my arm.
And after that I can’t remember any-
thing clearly. Your face, sir"—he
turned to Drummond—*‘comes to me
out of a kind of dream ; and yours, too,”
he added to Darrell. “Bat it was like
a long, dreadful nightmare, in which
vague things, over which I had no
power, kept happening, until I woke up
last night in this gentleman's house.”
He bowed to Ted Jerningham, who
grinned cheerfully.
“And mighty glad I was to heat you
talking sense again, sir,” he remarked.
“Do you mean to say you have no rec-
ollection of how you got there?”
“None, sir; none,” answered the mii-
jonaire, “it was just part of the
dream.”
“It shows the strength of the drug
those swine used on you,” said Drum-
mond grimly. “You went there in an
airplane, Mr. Potts.”
“An airplane!” cried the other in
emazement. “I don’t remember it.
I've got no recollection of it whatever.
There's only one other thing that I can
lay hold of, and that’s all dim and
myzzy. . . . Pearls. . . A great rope
of ears. . «1 Was to sign a paper;
and I wouldn't. . . . I did once, and
then there was a shot and the light
went out, and the paper disappeared.
» Ep ”
. Said there were others
“It's at my bank at this moment, Mr.
Potts,” said Hugh; “I took that paper,
or part of it, that night.”
“Did you?’ The millionaire looked
at him vaguely. “I was to promise
them a million dollars when they had
done what they said. . . . I remember
that. . . And the pearl necklace.
. . . the duchess of . . .” He paused
end shook his head wearily.
“The duchess of Lampshire’s?”
prompted Hugh.
“That's it,” said the other. “The
duchess of Lampshire’s. It was say-
ing that I wanted her pearls, I think,
und would ask no questions as to how
they were got.”
The detective grunted.
“Wanted to incriminate you proper-
ly, did they? Though it seems to me
that it was a blamed risky game.
There should have been enough money
: fom the other three to run the show
without worrying you,
i| found you weren't for it.”
when they
“Wait,” said the millionaire, “that
reminds me. Before they assaulted me
at the Carlton they told me the others
wouldn’t come in unless I did.”
For a while there was silence,
broken at length by Hugh.
“Well, Mr. Potts, you've bad a moldy
time, and I'm very glad it's over. But
the persom you've got to thank for
| putting us fellows on your track is a
girl. If it hadn't been for her I'm
afraid you'd still be having night-
mares.”
“I would like to see her and thank
her,” said the millionaire. quickly.
“You shall,” grinned Hugh. “Come
to the weddings; it will be in a fort-
night or thereabouts”
“Wedding!” Mr. Potts looked a lit-
tle vague.
“Yes! Mine and
proposition, isn’t 1t?”
(Concluded Next Week).
hers, Ghastly
| Bellefonte, Pa.
GREAT PROFIT ON CANDY.
The New York World recently made
an investigation of nine of the largest
candy manufactures, who retailed
their own products and found that the
prices charged for candy did not bear
any relation to the cost of ingredients
of which it is composed, and the prof-
iteering in candies transcends the im-
agination <f the average consumer.
The retail price varied from 98 cents
to $1.44 a pound, with some of the
stores charging as high as $2.00 fora
pound box of chocolates. A year ago
the manufacturers were paying from
23 to 35 cents a pound for granulated
sugar while for several months the
wholesale prices had been below 6
cents and now it costs not more than
5% cents.
The other ingredients entering in-
to the manufacture of candy are con-
siderabbly cheaper than a year ago.
As chocolates are the most expensive
candy manufactured, we give the list
of the ingredients entering into a mix-
ture of 105 pounds, which cost as fol-
lows:
80 Ibs. granulated sugar, 5%e. Ib..... $4.20
20 lbs. glucose, 4¢. Ib... convenes. .80
5 lbs. chocolate covering 25¢. 1b....... 1.25
Coloring, 2 0Z........ieevienvencnnsnnnns 50
Flavor, 4 oz. ($6 per gallon).......... 20
: $6.95
CANDY 7 CENTS A POUND.
It will be seen that the ingredients
of the most expensive candy that can
be manufactured cost not more than
6.61 cents per pound. The only way
to make it more expensive would be
to put nut-meat in gold tinsel and
hand dip instead of machine. High
MEDICAL.
Why that
Lame Back?
That morning lameness—those
sharp pains when bending or lifting,
make work a burden and rest impos-
sible. Don’t be handicapped by a bad
back—Ilook to your kidneys. You will
make no mistake by following this
Bellefonte resident’s example.
Mrs. J. F. Thal, 28 N. Thomas St.,
says: “I suffered with backache and
severe pains through my kidneys. I
had headaches and dizzy spells, when
1 first got up in the ImOrRing and my
kidneys acted Jrrerlany, My atten-
tion was called to Doan’s Kidney Pills
and I procured a box at the Green
Pharmacy Co. That one box removed
the backache. The headaches and diz-
zy spells left and my kidneys became
regular and I felt better in every
way.”
“I am glad to confirm my former en-
dorsement of Doan’s. Today I am
well and to recommend Doan’s is a
pleasure.”
Price 60c, at all dealers. Don’t
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Doan’s Kidney Pills—the same that
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Mfrs., Buffalo, N. Y. 66-31
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
|
INANCIAL STATEMENT.—Summary | i
of the Annual Statement of the
School District of Bellefonte Bor-
ough for the year ending July 4th, 1921.
Assessed Valuation.............§ 1798844.00
Per Capita Tax os 3692.64
For School Purposes, 18 mills.. 32379.19
For Sinking Fund and interest,
3 MIS, ....cocivcissesniness 5396.53
Total Amount of Taxes....... $ 41468.36
Account of Charles F. Cook, Treasurer:
RECEIPTS—GENERAL FUND
Te Balance on Hand July 5th,
eesvse tran seses enters 957.11
To Amount Received from J. K.
Johnston, Collector, (Gener-
al Property Tax).......... 36491.30
Tuition, non-resident pupils. . 7012.02
Regular State Appropriation. . 2121.70
High School Appropriation..... 560.00
Vocational Appropriation. . 1578.57
Salary Increase Appropriation. . 1925.39
Manual Training................ 09
Sale of Books, Ete.............. 21.33
Amt. Received on Notes........ 20250.00
Total Receipts... .........v.v.... $ T1219.37
EXPENDITURES
Jxpense of Administration: —
General Control... ..$] 0.93
Educational ........ 4.02
Compulsory Ed..... © 79.60—$ 2504.55
Expense of on ali verns 33789. 3
Expense of Operation.......... 6407.96
Expense of Maintenance........ 3611.15
Expense: of Fixed Charges, . 1970.24
Expense of Debt Service. . . 20556.76
Expense of Capital Outlay...... 1245.49
Expense of Auxiliary Agencies.. 280.11
Outstanding Orders Paid....... 22.90
Poti] EXDENGItures;... .cxre.r8 T0359.00
By Balance in Hands of Treas-
urer July 5th, 1921......... 830.36
$ TI1219.37
SINKING FUND ACCOUNT
Receipts :—
To Amt. on hand July 5th, 1920,
(including note of Bellefonte
School Board dated July
TER, T0101) usr icnss vsivagnss 21933.43
Received from J. K. Johnston,
COMEREOL. ....vcionvrvssnsens 6233.43
Received from Interest......... 870.73
Received from School Board
Note: —
CASI. irae $5000.00
Note ............«... 5000.00— 10000.00
Total oun: rccnsrosressens $ 39037.59
Expenditures :—
By Amt of State Tax, Int., Cou-
pons, Commissions, Ete. . 3914.97
By Loe Paid for $10000.00 Vie-
tory “Bonds. ................ 9642.10
By Amt. Paid M. E. Olmstead
Redemption of $10000.00,
Bonds, 1900 issue........... + 9509.50 |
Balance in fund July 5th, 1921:
Certificate of Dep..$ 971.02
Note Bft' Sch Board 5000.00 :
Victory Bonds..... 10000.00—% 15971.02
Total |. 0. LGA LE ome
BALANCE SHEET OF SCHOOL DIST.
Assets: —
Amount in hands of Treasurer
July Sth: 1021.,..... 5.004 0s $ 830.36
Amt. Due on Duplicates. . & 5600.12
Amt, Due on Tuition 1945.60
Amt. Due on Tax Liens........ 2756.75
Amt. in Sinking Fund (includ-
INE. NOte) i... cine: cupiinin 15971.02
Total o.oo oan, andl, $ 27193.85
Liabilities :—
¢0Old Bonded Debt.............. $ 10000.00
New Bonded Debt.............. oo
Outstanding Notes.............. 00
Outstanding Orders............. 20.79
Amt. Due Prof. A. H. Sloop
Petty: Cash Acet............ 3.7%
Total Liabilities............... $ 97024. 54
Total ASSetS.............. 00's 27193.85
Net Indebtedness............. $ 69830.69 |:
¢ $10000.00 Paid on Old Bonded
debt during the-year.
D. A. BARLETT,
GC L GATES,
_M. T. FISENHAUER,
Borough Auditors.
July 21th, 1921, Bh 80-30-3¢
class bon bons containing nut-meat
and wrapped in tinsel would cost |
about $1.50 more on a 105-pound
batch.
At the spread of prices charged by
the nine large retail concerns that
manufacture their own product the
average prices charged ranged from
98 cents to $1.44 a pound, or from
1,400 to 2,750 per cent. above the cost
of the ingredients.
It is within happy memory that
when a box of candy was purchased
for the best girl at a cost of 50 cents
it would contain a ribbon that would
bind her tresses until her next birth- |
day came around, but at present a
similar box will cost anywhere from
Fireproof Gas Tanks.
' One of our leading rubber compa-
nies has developed a fireproof cover
for the gasoline tanks of airplanes,
which has been accepted by the gov-
, ernment for use on combat and mail
planes. The cover was designed pri-
+ marily for combat airplanes for pro-
| tection against incendiary bullets, and
is not only fireproof but leakproof and
crashproof as well. The cover consists
{of a of soft but very tough rub-
ber, one-half inch thick, laid on sev-
eral plies of high-grade "cotton fabric.
The rubber is applied next to the tank.
In tests it was found that when the
gasoline tank is punctured the rubber
immediately closed the hole and stop-
$3 to $5, depending upon the neigh- | ped the leak.
borhood in which it was purchased.
This article only deals with the
higher grades of candies, but the
partly worthless product that is re-
tailed in the average neighborhoods is
sold to consumers at a cost that makes
ordinary extortion appear tame.
Mother—“Your father didn’t take
his cold bath this morning, did he?”
Johnny—*“Nope. I heard him kick-
ing because there wasn’t any hot wa-
ter.”
atsm———
Scenic anne
Week-Ahead Program
(Cut this out and save for reference).
SATURDAY, AUGUST 13:
BUCK JONES in “THE BIG PUNCH,” a story of an innocent westerner
sent to prison and later ridiculed because he enters ministry.
Pollard Comedy.
MONDAY, AUGUST 15:
DOROTHY DALTON in “A ROMANTIC ADVENTURESS.” This beautiful,
winsome star produces a comedy drama that will please you.
News and Tipies.
TUESDAY, AUGUST 16:
MAY ALLISON in “EXTRAVAGANCE,” is a six reel, elaborately-staged
story of an extravagant wife, who eventually realizes her folly.
Gumps and a Comedy.
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17:
MAY McAVOY in “A PRIVATE SCANDAL.”
rifices: her own happiness to preserve the ‘homes of those who gave her a
An appealing tale by our charming star,
home.
THURSDAY, AUGUST 18:
CLARA KIMBALL YOUNG in “HUSH,” is a story of a happily married
wife who loses her husband’s love when she confesses her past life, Kath-
lyn Williams helps put this six reel production over.
and Review.
FRIDAY, AUGUST 19:
HARRY CAREY in “DESPERATE
save man he believes to be brother of girl he loves.
ARM,”
first episode of “THE YELLOW
Oland and Marguerite Comstok in
start.
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Money which you wish to send with-
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The checking account is only one of
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them.
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Also, Snub
Also, Pathe
Also, The
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