Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, August 22, 1914, Page 2

R e o e e o YR PAGE TWO SETTLING A CLAIM | the wall. The thought of Rochester made BOTH EASY AND ‘NEXPENSIVE | Catesby grit his teeth. The horses were stamping in theh‘ Simple Way to Hang Short Curtains, stalls Nobody was about. Catesby went round to the back of the build- ings, and saw a ladder leaning against That was all right—only | there was no reason why anybody By JACOB DEMPSTER. Cdtesby was disgusted with life, for two reasons. The first was that, just a8 he had planned to spend two days in Rochester with Miss Lillian Burke, bhis firm had telegraphed him to go out to Scarsboro and investigate a $250,000 fire insurance claim. The second reason was that he could not afford to marry the sald Miss Burke unless his salary were raised from $2,250 to $2,500, and the fire insurance company resolutely refused to do so. “You make good on a few big claims and we'll see what we can do for you,” was all the comfort that Cates- by could get out of Johnny Roche, the general manager. The telegram, which was a long one, hinted at fraud. Catesby set oft through a blinding snowstorm to in-| terview the local agent, who con- firmed the suspiclon. “It's Peter A. Hanson's department store, and that's enough,” the agent explained. *I wouldn't have written him myeelf, from what I know of him. Jennings did it before I took over the agency. Hanson was in a bad way and couldn’t have lasted an- | other three months; but everythlm;' was reduced to a cinder, and there's | no showing what he had in stock and what he hadn't.” “Happened on Sunday, didn't it?" “Yes, at three in the afternoon. Not a goul in the place, and fifteen below zero. The mains were frozen and the engines wouldn't work. You might as well have tried to put out the sun.” | “No {dea how it started?” | “Defective insulation {s Hanson's theory. It's a good theory, because it doesn't let you out. But he's a sharp customer and knows more than he lets on. He was in Rochester when it happened.” | The word Rochester made Catesby mad. “I'll fix Mr. Peter A. Hanson,” | he said grimly, and went off through' the storm to interview him. Mr. Hanson bemoaned his loss. He declared that the goods alone were ' worth the entire amount of the {n.| surance. He wanted to be pald as eoon as possible, so that he could | gtart up business in a small way and employ some of his workpeople. Catesby Went Round to the Back of the Building. When he had finished talking he took Catesby over the ruins of the store. Catesby was experienced enough to see at once that there must have been combustible materials packed around the point where the fire originated. Ignoring Mr., Hanson's patter, he ex-| He | amined every foot of his ground. satisfied himself upon one point. The fire had originated at the back annex, where the heat had disintegrated a number of large stones of the founda. tion. More than that, it had been several degrees hotter there than any- where else, for the bricks were not merely scorched but cracked. “Know nothing more?” he asked ! unsympathetically of Hanson. *“Noth- ing about where it began?" “0, sure,” sald Hanson. “The elec tric wires must have started it in the front washroom.” As the washroom was at the other slde of the store, Catesby concluded that his theory was correct, “I'll let you know tomorrow,” he sald, and, shaking off the expostulat- ing Hanson, he went to his hotel, The Hanson store was the only one in town calling itself a department store. It stood at the end of the main street; it was badly situated, and on that account had lost money, but Han- son had expected the town to grow | in the wrong direction. There was a clear space of a hundred yards on either side of it. In front ran the street, at the back a little unfrequent- ed lane, and on the other son to house his half-dozen delivery Vans determined to explore. He reached the spot at nightfall side of this | were a few outbuildings, used by Han- | It was this region that Catesby | and looked about him. The sky was red all above the west. Catesby never afterward knew how the absurd idea came to him—perhaps it was the agent’s remarks about putting out the sun—but then and there it dropped into his mind. Of course the theory of defective Insulation was fictitious. It generally is. Besides, the timing of the flagration had been t to Hanson. And nobody was in th store; Hancm ‘ad m fififi-‘-‘ to prove his alibi by going to Rochester. | fdend his idea,” | should have wanted to go up the wall. Looking closer, Catesby saw that somebody had gone not onmly up the wall but upon the sloping roof, for there were footprints in the frozen snow. And there were no nail-marks in them. It was evidently a refined, gentlemanly boot that had trodden there. Catesby ascended the ladder and got upon the roof. Then he saw something that made his heart beat faster. It was a lump of clear ice in the snow—frozen in, so that it was not readily discernible from below, but unmistakably clear ice. Catesby squinted at the west, which was still red with the sunset clouds. Then he looked across the lane toward the back door of the store. Then he pulled out the ice with his hands, and, taking the precaution not to melt it by too careful fingering, he climbed down the ladder again. He placed the ice in a nice cold snowdrift, whera it was unlikely to be noticed, and went home. It was ten o'clock the next morn- | ing before he walked out of his hotel and round to the insurance agent. “Got him,” sald Catesby. “What!" shouted the agent. “Why, everything's burned out. What was it? Kerosene?"” 'hemmed down, and a “Guess again,” answered Catesby. | “1 don’t know, unless it was a ton ot dynamite.” “Let's call it a Rochester burner,” said Catesby, and the idea appealed to him as a humorous one. “Want to come and see the fun?” “0, sure,” sald the agent. Mr. Hanson was chafing and fret- ting upon the ruins of his store when the two men put in an appearance. He welcomed them with a cordial handgrip apiece. “Now, let's get down to business.” he bezan. “You advertiged to settlo all claims promptly, didn't you? Well, and you've had the night to think it over in. And there ain’t no eighty per | cent clause in my policy—you know that. So it comes to this: When do 1 get my check?” “You wouldn't think of arbitrating now, would you?" inquired Catesby. “No, sir. I want to pocket my loss and get my people to work again as quickly as I can. It's quite a blow to this town, and I wouldn’t relish | Careful being held up. And, what's more, if there's any talk of arbitration or com- promise I put the case {nto my law- yer's hands today.” “0, pshaw! Mayba you'll be only too glad to compromise,” suggested Catesby. “Ceme, make me an offer.” “One-quarter million,"” “Your lowest offer?” “You bet it is. What d'vou take me for?" “All right. now you can hear mine. Not one penny, but we won't prosecute if you drop your claim, because ice is a dell- | Without Use of Brass Rod, Tape or Hook. The accompanying sketch illustrates an easy and inexpensive way of hang- ing short curtains, without the use of a brass rod, tape or hooks. The curtain itself is of a pretty sim- ple type. made of soft white silk gath- ered into a frill at the top, and has an insertion of lace a few inches from ' the bottom. At the base of this frill, the material {is turned lath, cut to fit across the window, run through. In each end of the lath there are small circular holes, through which brass-headed nails can be run | into the woodwork by the side of the window. These holes should be made | large enough for the heads of the nails . to pass through so that to take theh ed by him to ! curtain down it merely has to be lifted from the nails. The small sketch at the top of the illustration clearly shows this and the end of the lath that is visible on either | side of the curtain can be painted the same color as the woodwork behind it. Short curtains suspended in this manner will not sag in the center, which so often happens with curtains hung upon tapes, and as the lath is stiff, it can be run through the curtain in a moment, and equally easily with- | drawn when the curtaln has to be | | I've heard yours, and | cate commodity to keep, even when | it's cold-storaged. You see, we couldn't very well bring it into court.” “Eh?" stammered Hanson, begin- ning to tremble. “Come here!” said Catesby, and led Hanson and the agent to the cool | snowdrift. He bent down, scraped away the snow, and pulled up a huge anG neatly burnished circular disk of fce. “I guess it formed on top of a tank somewhere, and that gave our said Catesby. “Catch on, Mr. Brown?” “Why, it's—it's glass,” cried the agent. “That's what it is, done. I guess you were in tha optical business once, weren't you, Mr. Han- | son?"’ or like a burning-| and pretty well | | lar. said Hanson. | washed. PICTURE HANGING A FINE ART Study of the Possibilitics Should Be Made Before Com- mencing Work. Picture hanging may become a fine | art, and, as in all artistic composition, | the general must precede the particu- You must first have a comprehen- | ¢ sive idea of your pictures and the groups into which they fall by reason of size, color and subject before you can plan their hanging. Nor must you hang any one picture on the wall until in a general way you have men- tally hung them all. If you have a long, narrow picture and a short, broad one that seem to belong together, place the long pic- ture two or three inches beneath the other, This will give the impression conveyed by a column and its capital of mase supported by slender strength. In a long, narrow wall space such an arrangement is particularly happy. In general, hang smaller pictures below larger. Pictures should usually be on or shortly above the level of the eye. Cer- tain pictures, however, can be elevat- ed without detriment to their effect- iveness. The Sistine Madonna, for in- stance, poised, as it were in the heav- ens, loses nothing by well above the other pictures. Your pictures are individuals. Each has been lovingly wrought mth some one end in view, Put your- ‘“h\ he was the first opticlan in | gelf in the place of the artist; respect town,’ th? agent cried. before he built this store.” “Exactly,” answered Catesby. “That was | his aim; do justice to his achievement. If you succeed in this, your pictures, “What | like intelligent, well-mannered guests, would a jury say to that, I uondor’. will become an integral part of your However, there's one more thing to | household, take into consideration, and that's the | focal length. We've got to prove that | at three o'clock in the afterncon the | sun is in a direct line with the top of that shed, where the glass lens was fixed, and those split stones at the back of the store, where the fire be- gan. Furthermore, as I was saying, that is the correct focal length to concentrate the rays. Now we'll go up this afternoon—" “Stop, for God's sake!" whispered Hanson, and his face was pea-green “You got me. All right hundred thousand and it's ten per cent of that aplece to—" “You scoundrel!"” catching Hanson by the throat. “Now we'll send you to the state's prison for sure. I'm glad you said it, I am. I wanted my chance.” “St Let's call it all off, Mr. *rposed the agent. “Yom wict, with him in Roch- ‘eased the trembling mer- 11 0%?" he asked. s 80, murmured Mr. Han- You'll write a confession to dicta- tion : > price of immunity ?” ' I've got to.” “Al tht. We'll have it right away Say, Mr. Brown, have you a time-table? I want to find when the next train leaves for Rochester.” vy W. G. Chapman.) No Use. “I do not sigh for riches.” y Yo er yourself a her, I suppose?’ “Not particularly. I'm simply averse to wasting my breath.” | Make it two | yelled Catesby, | each contributing of its | beauty, its strength or its character to the whole. TO KEEP NECKWEAR FRESH When Traveling, Put Between Leaves of a Magazine—Remarkable Col- lars and Ruches. To keep your neckwear smooth and fresh when traveling with a suit case, | * put such things between the differ- ent leaves of a magazine, which takes up less room than a box and er drawer. " laundered neckwear and ribbons. | collar into the neck of the dre The fashionable high-standing col- lars and ruches may be made remov able. Instead of sewing the ruct snaps every two or three inct the facing of the neckpiac corr: ding parts equal ¢ ont ck of the diess a npeckpiece may be quick ferred to another dress, when a dress is hung in or packed in a suit case, Sewing on Pump-Bows. Here is a useful hint for bu wives: “While I was strug an ordinary needle, trying t new bows on spondeat write a ph an, of his curved “It solved th now I case for i had "on. any cents. over and] . thin wooden BEEEOFIOPOFOHOEOIT 0T Phone No. 340 ‘uL\l\ Hu} IDA, CERY.—». G. Merritt, ant, vs Persons Unkuown, ants.—Hill to Quiet Title, It appearing from the sworn bill | of complaint filed 1n tne .mu ] utled cause that th inknown to erest in the following d mm‘ situated in the county ot Polk state of Florida towit: North 2-3 oI the north 1-2 of the northeast qu ter ot the northwest quarter or the northwest quarter, less a land 15 feet wide off the west thereof; and the north 3-4 of {.UI'Ih\\'v:r'L quarter of the noarth quarter of the northwestquarter,les & strip ot land feet wide oif tne cast end ther all of section ot township 28 south, and rang east; and that the complainant o1 » 1 sald cause, anqg filed in my (»fllcn being raised is very | convenient when removed to the dress- | It is specially suited to lieves there are persons claiming an | interest in the said land as heirs, de- vise or grantees of the Iohu‘ ing | deceased persons, or such of them 1~ may be deceaseq viz.: Laura Bar-| nard, Fred H. Barnard, W. H, Sterns Hannah Serns, A. J. 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