Hammond Times, Volume 2, Number 135, Hammond, Lake County, 23 November 1907 — Page 3

Sahmlav. Nor. 23, 1907.

THE LAKE COUNTY TIMES

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A Mystery Story of San Francisco EY EARLE ASHLEY WALCOTT (Copyright 190. th Iiobl Mrrlll Co.) (Continued.) "He thought he was heir to her fortune. When he found that she had left it with Mr. Knapp and re, in trust for the boy, his rage was frightful to see. Eeiore he had time to put any of his wicked thoughts into action I took the boy to my home, thinking that there I could keep him in safety. Mr. Knapp pooh-poohed my fears, and, when Mr. Lane made a demand for the child, was in favor of giving him up. 'The father is the one to care for the boy,' he said, and washed hi3 hands of the whole matter." "Then Mr. Knapp had nothing to do with the affair, one way or the other?" "Oh, no nothing at all. I believe, though, that Henry did use his name with the police, to deter them from interfering with our plans." I remembered Decteetive Coogan's words, and kenw that she wacorrect in this supposition. "Mr. Lane." she continued, " threatened legal proceedings. But, knowing his own past and knowing that I knew something of it, tao, he dared not begin them. Mr. Knapp's feelings in tht matter had made me unwilling to keep the boy in my house, but at first I thought it the best way of protecting him, and had him with me. Then one night the house was broken into and two men were discovered in the room where the boy usually slept. I had taken him to my own bed that night, for he was ailing, and so he escaped. The alarm was raised before they found him, and the men fled. Mr. Knapp was confident that they were ordinary house-breakers, but I knew better. I dared keep the boy there no longer, and called Henry Wilton to assist roe in making him safe. He found a suitable house for the boy and hired men to guard it. But after one experience in which tlie place was attacked and almost carried by storm, Henry thought it better to hide the boy and watch the enemy. The rest you know." Heaving a sigh as of relief, she went on: "Mr. Lane was insane, I am certain. I tried to have Mr. Knapp take steps to iocf vini up. But Mr. Knapp could nofU eve that" tils' brother was so wick'is to wish to take the life of his ov.-.i child. 1 think he was fearful of a scandal in which the relationship should become known. But there was a thne, a few weeks ago, when 1 was near spurring Mr. Knapp to action. It was at the time of his trip to Virginia City. Mr. Lane came to the house while I was away and scared the servants into fits with his threats and curses. Luella had the courage and tact to face him and get him out of the house and I telegraphed for Mr. Knapp." "I remember the occasion, though I didn't know what was going on." "Well, Mr. Knapp was very angry, and had a long talk with Lane. He told me that the creature cried and pleaded for forgiveness and promised amendment for the future. And Mr. Knapp believed him. Yet that very night you were assailed with Luella in Chinatown." The truth flashed on me. The groans and cries behind th locked door in Doodridge Knapp's office, the voices which were like to one man pleading and arguing with himself, were all explained. "I think the assault was something of an accident." she continued; "or, rather, it was more the doing of Terrill than-of Lane." "What was the cause of Ten-ill's enmity?" I asked. "He seemed to take a hearty personal interest In the case for a hired man." "For one thing, a family interest. 1 think he is a son of Lane's early years. For another, he had a violent personal quarrel with Henry over some matter, and you have hd tho benefit of the enmity. But I den't think you'll hear of him again or Meeker either. They will be in too much cf a hurry to leave the state." At her last words we were at the wharf, and landed free from fear. An hour later 1 reached my lodgings, sore with fatigue and half-dead for want of sleep. CHAPTER XXXI. The Reward. "I've heard about you." said Luella. Rhen on the next evening I made my bow to her. "But I want to hear all about it from yourself. Tell me, please." Then 1 told her the story of my coming, of the murder of Henry Wilton, of the struggles Tvith death and difficult that had given the spice cf variety to my life since 1 had come across the continent. It was an inspiration to have such a listener. Under the enceurageraent of her sympathy I found en uawented flow cf words and ideas. Laughter and tears thoae in her eyes as the ludicrous and sorrowful parts of my experience touched her by turns. And at the end I found that I was clasping her hand. For a minute we were silent. "Oh," she cried softly, withdrawing her hand awcLlooking dreamily away, "I kcew it was right that it must be

right. You have Justified my faith, and more!" "I am repaid for all by those words," I said. "You deserve a much greater reward than that," said Luella. "I want a much greater reward than that," said I boldly. I did not think the courage was in me. But under the magnetic inSuence of the woman before me I forgot what a poor devil I was. Luella looked at me, and I saw in her eyes that she understood what I would say. I do not know what I did say. I have no doubt it was very badly put, but she listened seriously. Then she Bald: "That's very nice of you to want me, but I am going to marry the president of the Omega Company." l turned sick with despair at these words so gently said, and a pang of Jealously, tinged with wonder, shot through me. "Surely she can't be in love with that red-faced brute wa fought with in the Omega office." I thought. Luella saw my distress as 1 tried to rise and fly from the place. "Don't go," she said gently. "What are you going to do with your men?" "The free companions are to be disbanded," I said, recovering myself with a gulp. " "And you, Mr. Dudley?" Thi3 question struck me a little blank. I had really not thought of what I was going to do. "it's another case of an occupation gone," I said rather ruefully. "With the break-up of the plots and the close of the Omega deal I am at the end of my employments." "No," said Luella thoughtfully. "You are Just at the beginning." The tone, even more than the words, braced my nerves, and once more

or t-:e cfTzzA xr5nirrm there glowed within me ' a generous courage of the future. "You are right. I thank you," I said feelingly. "I have faith in the opportunities." "And I have faith " said Luella. j Then she stopped, j "In the man, I hope," I ventured. ! Luella did not answer, but she gave I me a look that meant more than ! words. I was a trifle bewildered, wondering where I stood in the eyes ; of this capricious young woman, but my speculations were cut short by the coming of Mrs. Knapp. There was no reservation in her greeting. As we talked over the events of the month, I found nothing left of the silent opposition with which she had watched my growing friendship with the daughter of the house. At last she cried: "Oh, I had almost forgotten. Mr. Knapp wishes to see you in his room before you go." "I am at his service," I said, and went at once to the den of the Wolf. "Ah, Wilton, I find you're not Wilton." he growled amiably. The loss of his brother had not affected his spirits. "Quite true," I said. "Have you any engagements that would keep you from taking the place cf president of the Omega Company?" I fell back on the chair, speechless. "There'll be a good salary," he continued. "Well, of course, you needn't be in a hurry to accept. Take a day to think over it if you like." The Wolf actually smiled. "Oh, I don't need any time," I gasped. "I'll take it now." "Well, you'll have to wait till the directors meet." he said. I gave him my hearty thanks for the unlooked-for favor. "To tell you the truth," he said, "it was the doing of the women folks." My heart gave a leap at the announcement, for it carried a great deal more with than Doddridge Knapp knew. "I am a thousand times obliged to you and the ladies." I said. "Well, I wasn't unwilling," he said indulgently. "In fact, I intended to do something handsome for you. But there's one condition I must make." I looked my inquiry. "You must not speculate. You haven't got the head for it "Thank you." I sid -Til keep out, except und?r your orders. "Right," he said. "You've the best head for carrying out orders I ever found." The King of tho Street waved me good nisht. and I went back to the parlor. Luella was sitting where I had left her, and no one else was afcout. She as looking demurely down and did not glance up till I was .beside her. "I have woa a double prize." I said. "I am the president of Onoga." And I stooped and kissed her. THE END. Try a Want Ad la the Ttaiem.

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Sja ELEAJVOH GATES, Author of "The Biography of a Prairie Girl."

A story of the vAnning of the west ; of the ways and wiles of the savage Sioux; of brave soldiers and daring frontiersmen ; of a stubborn hate coming down from the civil war; of love tender, brave and true. A. story with a group of heroes a tender fledgeling from West Point; a storekeeper with good nerve and a big heart; an old evangelist who dares all perils for the love of God and man; a young girl with courage ample for hardship, , . . . danger and renunciation of more than life ; an Uncapapa chief- j tain, degraded to wear the garb of a squaw and herd with the dogs, who shall seek to earn again the plumes of a warrior. Two animals, even, a young bull and a thoroughbred mare, shall play daring parts of no mean importance. He who reads shall know that a tale of Dakota of thirty years ago may kindle and inspire as much as any story of times remote; that the days of romance are near, not far off. The narrative begins quietly and rises steadily in interest to a climax as absorbing and inspiring as has been presented in any novel or drama, old or new. CIIAFTER. I. HE coulee was a long scarlet gash in the brown level of the Dakota prairie, for the sumach, dyed by the frosts of the early autumn, covered its sides like n cloth whose upper folds were thrown far over the brinks of the winding ravine and, southward, half way to the new cottonwood shack of the Lancaster. Near it, a dark band against the flaming shrub, stretched the plowed strip, narrow, but widening with each slow circuit of the team as the virgin grass grown land was turned by the mold board to prepare for the corn planting of the coming spring. The sun, just risen, shone coldly upon the plain, and a wind, bearing with it a hint of raw weather and whirling snow, swept down the Missouri valley from the north, marshaling its front hosts of gabuiing ducks and honking geese that were taking noisy flight from a region soon to be buried and already bleak. Yet, with all the chill in the air, Ben and Betty, the mules, steamed as they toiled to and fro and lolled out their tongues with the warmth f their work and the effort of keeping straight In the furrow, and Dallas, following in their wake with the reins about her shoulders and the horns of the plow in a steadying grasp, took off her slouch hat at the turnings to bare her damp forehead, drew the sieeve of her close fitting Jersey across her face every few moments, and at last, to aid her iu making better prog ress. as well as to cool her ankles, brought the bottom of her skirt through the waistband front and back and walked iu her red flannel petticoat. As she traveled she looked skyward occasionally with a troubled face and. resting but seldom, urged the team forward. Clear weather and sunshine would not long continue, and the first field ou the claim must be turned up and well harrowed before the opening of winter. "Come, Ben, come," she called coaxiugly to the nigh mule. "If you don't dig in now. how d' you expect to have anything to eat next winter? Betty, Betty, don't let Ben do it all; I'm talking to you too. Come along, come along." Ben and Betty, lean and gray with age. bent willingly to their labor at the sound of her voice. Their harnesses creaked a monotonous complaint with their renewed efforts; the colter came whining behind them. As Dallas gently slapped the lines along their backs now and then to emphasize her cemmand clouds of dust which had been gathered as mud In the buffalo wallow where ther went each evening j to roll ascended and were blown away, j Faithfully they pulled, not even lift- ! ing an eyelid or flapping an ear in ! protest when Simon, the stray yearling bull that had adopted the claim i as its home and tagged Dallas everyi whare, bellowed aboix their straining legs or loitered at their very noses and impeded their way j, riowiQg was ptranRe work to the pa. tient mules and to the girl who was j guiding them. To her the level prairie, I rank with goldenrod. pink nowered 1 smart weed and purple aster, was a land of wondrous growth. For twenty I years her home had been an arid mesa ; far to the south, where her father j captained the caretakers of a spur j railroad track. The most western sta tion house iu Texas, standing amid thorny inesquite. was her birthplace rnd that of her sister Marylyn. The gray plateau across which the embankment led was their playground. There thy gifw to womanhood under the careful guldam-e of their frail north era torn mother.

PHILLIPS O COMPANY. And then two casualties, coming close upon each other, had suddenly changed their life. Their father was brought home one night so maimed and crushed by the wheels of a Cat car that he could never hope to take up his work again, and while he lay, bandaged and broken, fighting to keep the soul in his crippled body, their mother bravely yielded her life to a lingering illness. Many months later, when Evan Lancaster's wounds were at last healed, Ben and Betty were unhitched from a dirt laden scraper on the siding and put before a white topped prairie schooner. Then the old section boss, with hl criltchPS beide him flnrt hia daughters seated iu the all but empty box behind, said a husky farewell to the men crowding around the wagon and started the mules along the road that led northward beside the rails. He gave no backward glance at the wind battered bouse where he had brought an ailing bride. Instead, eager to leave that plain of flying sand and scanty grasses, he drove the team rapiily forward, bound for a country where there were wells and not water cars, where rain fell of tener and where food, both for man and beast, could be got easily from the earth. But Dallas, seated iu the schooner's bed. her weeping sister held soothingly against her breast, watched, dry eyed, as a mound by a giant mesquite faded slowly from her sight and saw her girlhood's home give way, ns a lighthouse sinks behind a speeding vessel, vmtil only its gray sprinkled roof showed through the scattered trees. Then, after pillowing Marylyn's head on a Navajo blanket beside the swashing water cask, she climbed forward to the driver's seat and took the reins from her father. It was April, and when the mesa was left far to rearward a world almost forgotten by the crippled section boss burst in new, green loveliness upon his desert children. Towering pines and spreading oaks, lush grass strewn with blossoms, clear running streams and gay feathered birds replaced thirsty vegetation, salt lakes and hovering vultures. They traveled slowly, each day bringing some fresh delight to ear and eye, until one evening In the waning Dakota summer they camped beside a great crooked split in the prairie, on a Cat peninsula made by a sweeping westward bend of the muddy Missouri. Across the river from their stopping place, where an amber sun was going down, the horizon was near. High i bluffs, like a huge windbreak, stood I upon the plain, leaving at their feet j only enough space for the whitewashed i frame buildings. of Fort Braunon. But to the east the paralleling bluffs lay at j a distance and broke their rldgeback far up the scarlet coulee; from where, southward, stretched a wide gap ten broad and gently undulating miles that ended at the slough studed base of Medicine mountain. Even Lancasi ter, as he stood bareheaded under the unclouded sky, looked about him upon acres heavy with tangled grass and weeds, and pleased with the evident richness of the untouched ground and with the sheltered situation of the claim on the bend, swore that the white topped schooner, with Its travel stained crew of three, had found on the yellow billows of that northern prairie its peitnanent moorings at last The felling: and hewing of cotton woods for the shack had occupied the first few weeks that followed, citizen carpenters from Brannon doing the heavy cutting and lifting. But when the little house stood, its square log room and dirt floor open to the sun. Dallas performed her part of the build ing, and thatched the hip roof with coarse grass from a meadow. Next the well was dug. and the barn built as a lean-to, for the Lancasters knew little, but had heard much, about the blizzards of the territory. Then, while the elder girl covered the slanting raft ers over Ben and Betty's stalls, the sec tion boss hauled a scanty stock of hay and provisions from Clark's, a cattle camp and settlement to the northeast. And finally, when shack and barn were alike done, Dallas put the mules to the end of an oak beam and took up the task of plowing. Now she was winding at a black mat that was gradually growing upon the brown carpet of the prairie. Up and down she walked, her whiplash trailing behind her like a lively snake, her hands striving to guide the cleaving share she followed, a look of deep content, despite all fear for bad weather, upon her sun browned face. But while working the morning hours slowly away she gave full attention to the nodding mules and the young bull straggling at their head, she did not stop to watch the flocks winging by above her or to look off to where the plains fell away from the pale azure line of the sky, so she failed to see, at the middle of the long forenoon, a group of dark figures that came into fight to the eastward and moved slowly forward in the direction of the bend. Toward noon, however, the furrows were turned less regularly. Ben and Betty were so tired that they no longer Irew evenly, but wavered from side to side. Again and again the off aaule

FOR MADAM AND MADEMOISELLE Bjr BEATRICE IMOGENE HANSEN

XEW WEDDING FASHIONS. Silver clippers and rose petals are taking; the place of rice nt all fashionable weddings, said a clergyman. It 13 a change for the better. The silver slippers to reploce the old boots are about half an inch Ions. Silver paper cut in the shape of dainty slippers. The rose petals to replace the rice are the real thing:. Thousands of petals stripped from hundreds of pink roses. In great bowls the silver slippers and the pink petals are heaped in the hall, and when the bride and groom emerge, instead of being cannonaded with coarse rice and dirty old boots a sunset cloud, as it were, envelops them, an odorous pink and silver chud of rose petals and little shining slippers. SACHET E. VKLOI'KS, An artist girl, who is always making the daintiest trilloa imaginable is painting whole sets of envelope sachets. "They make good Christmas gifts." said she," and I always sell what I don't want at the woman's exchanges." It was quite a new fashion to make sts of flower sachet envelopes on which all the designs shall be in ac cord, but not unite alike. The fragrance is in harmony with the design. For instance, a set of rose envelope sachets will be filled with rose sachet, which, by the way, must be the most delicate and the purest fragrance ob tainable. If there are four sachets one will be decorated with an old fashioned moss rose bud. A second envelope will have a full blown rose; a third, the scattered rose leaves. Sometimes these saches envelopes are tied with ribbon or with gold cord. This is done where the design will permit, the envelope first being sealed, however. The rib bon may be plain or have a design as one chooses. ery narrow nowered ribbon is also used. USING COURT PLASTER. In mending articles with court plas ter, never apply while the latter is wet. Wait a few seconds until it gets sticky, then there is no danger of moisture penetrating the goods to make a soiled place on the right side, as many have experienced while mending in this manner. Turn the right side toward you, lay it on a clean cloth, and iron perfectly smooth. If any frayed pieces are noticeable, clip those with a pair of scissors. Mending tissue can be basted into place, as the basting threads are jerked the share out or the sod. acn time Dallas patiently circled the team and steered it back into plae again, for her arms were not strong enough to swing the plow on the whifiletrees And each time Simon caught sight of her red flannel petticoat, and faint. half aw-akened objections stirring beneath his sprouting horns came back to challenge the goading color and butt her crossly in the skirts. Just before dinner time and halfway of the plowed strip, going east. Dallas suddenly lifted her shoulders to tighten the slack of the reins, let go the horns and brought the mules to a stand, and then as they halted with lowered heads she caught sight of the distant figures between her and the horizon, recognizing them as men. mounted and on foot, with wngous hanging at their rear. She stepped to the head of the team and shaded her eyes for a moment. As she did so a part of the advancing body detached itself and approachea more swiftly, only to retreat again, and the sun, climbing toward the center of the sky, flashed back upon bright objects carried at the front of the group. (To be Continued.)

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A Special $5.00 Hat Sale These beautiful trimmed Hats are not the ordinary 5.00 kind such as you find In most millinery stores, but they are hats, that are equal in every respect to those that you would pay from 7.50 to 10.00 for. There are about 250 hats in this lot which comprises the seasons prettiest and most exclusive models in the popular mushroom and French sailor style, elaborately trimmed In all the new winter feather and winj effects others are trimmed in velvet roses and large chues of Paon velvet fancy stick pins and ornaments. Just one or two of a kind and all equally good values

easily drawn out. To take out a hem put in in with gum tissue, it is only

necessary to run a warm iron over the goo. is and the material is easily pulled apart. THE TOILET T A II I.E. The Water Wave "Marcia" is intended only for women who have naturally curly hair. Of course, the real fuzzy-topped maiden won't need even this slight help to make a beautiful wave, but very often a natural tendency to curl will be encouraged by this treatment. The hair is done up loosely on top of the head, then thoroughly moistened with water, put up on a con;!). Tho wave is formed with the lingers, and a hot curling iron Is laid lightly across the hollow in each undulation. The idea, you see, is merely to train the natural kink. Girls with straight hair would better cling to the curling torn or some of the patent wavers. Speaking of hair reminds me of two or three notes which 1 have received lately from women whose hair is growing thin over the temples. This. believe, is one of the first signs of middle age, though some girls are troubled that way from the time they first do up their hair. Some overcome the difficulty in time by constantly using vaseline on the thin spots, but it is an ugly treatment because it makes the thin hair look oily and all the thinner. The best rrmedv is kero sene oil. 'lake just the least bit on the bare finger tips, and rub it Into the bare spots once a week. The oil will evaporate in a few minutes, so that the odor is not offensive. This common coal oil, by tho way, is a vrey good remedy to have on the dressing table, even If one's house is lighted by gas or electricity. Besides acting as a perfect hair tonic, it is an excellent remedy for burns. A slight skin burn, such as one might get from a hot curl ing iron, can usually be prevented from becoming painful if treated In time. Immerse the burned member in kero- ! sene, and in few minutes the inflammation will be gone. The danger of blistering is also averted in this way. To not forget, girls, that any artificial hair which you may wear need.? shampooing now and then, just as much as the hair on your head does. It is positively unhealthy to wear a duaty rat, to say nothing of the question of neatness. The real hair switches and pompadours may be washed quite successfully with plain warm water and white Foap, just as one's hair Is. If one has bought the cheaper sort, how.ever, which is made of tow, like doll's wigs, gasoline cleaning is safer. These tow rats and switches wear a long time and may match the hair perfectly, but it is best not to risk fading by a soap and water treatment. TAN SHOE RAGE The tan shoe rage will hold through another season, according to one wholesale dealer in fine footwear. "Everything runs to novelties for next season," said he. "Every manufacturer of fine shoes for women is turning out all the novelties he can produce. Some of these are buckles, others are ornaments, others are novel in the style of the shoe or the heel. Rut everything is different from everything else. Colonial styles are coming to the front more than ever. This, of course, makes big buckles necessary. It will be another year when women will pay $4 for a pair of shoes and $15 for a pair of buckles to wear on them. But the prices will not be any higher than they are this year, although the price of tan leather has gone soaring to fearful heights. There never was such a demand for tan leathers as at present." Ktirntshert Room for Rent on Page 7. Sale of FINE -few z . ' . r. v 1' Ok

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Powdered Milk. Improved processes in reducing milk to the form of a powder or compressing it into tablets have led to an increasing use of milk in these forma. Powdered or compressed milk Is not only employed for provisioning ships and for transportation to distant places, but for the use of bakers and confectioners. In France a new process for powdering milk has recently been Invented. The milk Is forced, under a pressure of 250 atmospheres, through a tube one-tenth of a millimeter in diameter, into a closed cham ber, heated to 167 degrees Fahrenheit by a current of warm air. Tha rapid expansion of the milk on entering the chamber turns.it into a cloud of vapor, the water Is carried off by the current of air and the solid parts of the milk fall in powder on the bottom. Youth's Companion. ANNOUNCEMENT. Dr. Clark, who has been out of town for his health during the summer, has resumed business and can be found at his office. 139 South Ilohman street. Dr. J. A. Graham, a graduate of Queen's University Tvlll enter the office with Dr. Clark and will be prepared to make calls at all hours. Office phone, 173. Night calls Second floor 88 and 85 State street, old Masonlo Temple. li-n-tf. See what a few lines of type will & toward atrntirhtenlnK oat the matter.

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