The evening world. Newspaper, October 18, 1912, Page 27

7 Wats Good! PoP'’s LiTTLA MAN (5 PLANNING), sy” DiscRacerut! ry so CTIVE: WRC278°*) SHERIDAN hago em ‘A Series of Articles Exposing the Every-Day MarnisTeER'e FID sien Deceptions of the Powers That Prey, | —S THe! Plepce ! “Camera-Eye” Sheridan ts regarded as'one of the dest | detectives that ever existed Outside of fiction. The feats \M. Aswimep 7% MAK ALONS The street win You! (oprright 1912, by G. FP, Putnam's Sona) SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERA lof memory which gave him hs nickname, shen he was si 9.0) 4 SINOPAIS oF PREC y faep ‘head of the Bureau of Identifoation of the New York y ft Oy) ain oa Arey he ar ‘Pelike Department, are proverbial, It ha. deen said’ that there te.no man in (ited Btates with so thorough a knowledge of criminals end their ways €8 Detective Sheridan. In thie series he gives the public many valuable Selatere calculates te save them lose by swindling, bea . Wepriight, 1912, by W. Autich.) ~. NO. XXU.—THE “FAKE MERCHANT” SCHEME, oe an to the last annual report of Chief Post-OMice Inspector Sharp, at least $77,000,000 was Giverted during the year ftom ‘the ‘pockets of, ff the people to the accounts of the get-rich-quick operators, and a very ee of this suin represénts the profits of the fake merchant scheme. {t'has Just come to light, drew down ‘no lesa than $50,000 ‘Uncle Samr got them in the end.’ size’ ef 100,000 or some- eked ‘out thefr town, the SR nit hs PLease , DocToR , gets atquainted with the going concerns, asc B which of these boasts HERE'S “beat ‘credit and then ‘lays plans in eccordatics with this information. An so Fast! AAMLET Wants To ‘Office 1 hired th mont ‘pretentious buildt nd the: door is coverdd ‘with Si igne made Up to-resemble as tl ‘as possible’ the titled of the in town, Thus, if there is in Blan ware ae the Consolidated Hardware Corporation ‘The Confederated Hardware Corporation.” The Peerle ent Leather Company may be paraphrased into “The Peériess ‘Patent Lisethiée Bide Com- peny,” &c. . ar ye Ss 1s a ‘Then resource 1s had to the always necessary printer, and the most ornate of Stationery is secured for each of the “companies” whose address is the medigh office buflding. Then the swindlers go through the list of manufac- \urefs and select those whose headquarters are furthest removed from Blank- ville, A letter is sent in the name of the hardwere concern ordering from the! makers several carloads of various sommodities. And at the same time made with small business people to supply them with the & considerable reduction from the cost price. When, the manufacturer sends on his several carloads of household goods , i] aE it 32 nd despatched them to the innocent purch: attracted by the bargain price. As these goods are disposed of for spot cash and as the crooks-are under no expense save stationery and office rent, it is all clear profit to them, ‘The bills from the manufacturer read from thirty to ninety days, accord- ing to the way the do business and the confidence they place in the| ¢———~ — arms ordering, which they believe to be the “good faith firms” of Blankville, | hft™ eee established reputation. This gives the grafters plenty of time to complete ‘operations. ‘They can keep wp the swindle until the frst of their bills eer Pp ut ert! ue, and even seen they sometimes have the nerve to linger along in 9 town and work further swindles by sending a atrong letter to e manufacturers and pleading for a slight extension of tims. ~ By Clarence L, Callen. # After @ while, however, the manufacturers naturally become impatient for i] i ¢ it { i | i i i Household Electrics By Stephen L. Cotes 4 i hie Copyright, 1912, by The Pres Publishing Co, (The New York World), y and send a peremptory demand for immedia Pessimist is One who Chal- raking st pattie bi the Meh ed Gen pocheig ite dite of Wile donatiure as ya eee pega ei Bsa @ Taking the Hurdles in- What Is Electricity? only by ite manifestations and the tape 9 perteooat Phe y* ‘the Attention the letter, but Instead rip the orme ug that Overcoming Obdstactes| r++ HI3 question has pussled not onty | Various kinds of work it will ée for us| Cettyanure, the mock, muusstllens ates Ly ir belongings and decemp with their gains, merrily — doesn't necessarily Mean Tearing I the layman but the scientist for|When properly harnessed, ieee ‘American soll, saw the Bigh- SY, MH tow Rt point along their route—which may bé @ thousand- Apectalise, ener-| them Down! 4 to-day can| Among the mysterious properties of) Toe. “merk of the Rebellion. After many years, « not be answered in positive terms, We|this wonderful form of energy are these: | Dives column had dashed itself to are compelied to tell what electricity 1a,|1t hae no weight, cannot be seen, We! pieces against the fron-bound, flame- in terms of energy into which It cam be| cannot hear Its passage along @ wire and | fringed Union lines on Cemetery ridge, E i if size, and Root ke Babe De We Never Yet met a Really Talented nings — at Touch Artist who didn't become 0 begin operations all over being careful not to tempt business relations with any of the firms just swindled. . ‘When the manufacturer no longer has doubt that he has been defrauded I 1 to the Government an@ Post-OMice inspeoto: what. that/!t bas no oder, tide began to ebb, slowly but eomplains oe Sep re aré put on the Open Gesame */ Wedded’ to hte Art that he Wouldn't transformed and in are tee bog tite pee TR ihe er Richmond, Grant, wath ef the thie Yours! Work! energy does. Electricity, magnetism, oA ag bey = ro eettled Gown a pellet bedi heat, light and motion are names of re a Maryland, below the ola étumph- ‘senna . The Man who set lated energy. And » study of one leads twenty 42 {t took all : can Try, Reach a| If we were Required to Take our! naturally into the domains of the other. |, » remote banks ¢f in The May Manton Fashions Verdict and Pro-| Choice between the Curly Salesman and Through these allied energies doubtless (3 nounce entence| the ‘Slopper-Over Ditto, we Think we'd! we shall find out some day just what ‘The Federal army, cautiously ma- upon his Own| Welt for the Next Racol @lectricity Is At present we know it ° nosuvted by Meade, followed Lee inte LL overlappea, Case is on his Virginia, but 414 not attack him; ahd the remainder of the summer season tee, "She of weloome repose to both ites, ‘At the headquarters of the Federal oe, Omran Hs Reig | any nt Bates, new set along the Rapidan, Gen. Meade 416-—Way do we enjoy eating mect | gorgeous Logg ion flag 4 a (n ool8 weather more than in hot? | Selden, eagle, 10, 0 sm nis hak One 417.—How can weather be fore|day in March @ int, shabby-looking, OF envelope Way to Light and mai Styles are Tm — shows that rade Some Folks would be in a Sorry Way the’ front pots Hl it they didn't have Neurasthenta or With.e panel back, It Nervous Prostration’to Fall Back Upon @s an excuse for their Chronic Peevish- Will be found excellent Ress! beth for the euit and Just About “Going Back to the Farm” ne Publishing Co, (The New York W: . o4 tm passing te for the gown This| There's Nothing to Prevent you) Sone Peed Docbe sited aswn “othe: Ronrcuitivation ot) t0%6 by oloude? bearded ores. splendtterous emblem, phe sre! i thousands of acres in our country that| 418-—Why do candles sputter when| as he exclaimed involutariiy: season allows both tiny high and natural waist from Begging to Differ with Destiny RBADER signing himselt “K. 8. could yield abundantly but ter tee ee ne eneaat Te imperious. Cases? Unga: aad? the wxtre|s One, ene Stew teh HEF Jn." writes to ‘The Evening! of WILL and EFFORT of the indivia.|"7™ (4 near? anywher beieved TH | uan, 9.—Why does soap merease| The bearded stranger wes Licut.-Gea, can be finished in World as follows: |uall, ‘Truly, he who runs may bave a| 4 ig Regge agg Bes a et whichever way 1s more Hard Luck Soon Stops Bothering the farm with PROFIT, water's cleansing power? ree cus pg erie s‘Never Touched Me” Mant reat dominant fact 4 dor Herrick and oth “ii 420-—Why doce powder eaplode| United States, The Washington authori- becoming, ng. Many come to the decision that shall I wearers will like the| ‘“Gioomy Forebodings” is @ Phrase sega 5 8 Loe this economy 1s that we N.|tohen rubbed or struck? their immense plans of campatsn should cutaway front, but/|that always Makes us Recall a Measly i living |SUMING more than we are PRODUC- —_— be put under one head for execution. when it {# dentrable| Little Boy we Used to Know who'd ay ph gr ‘any | ENG in the matter of foodstuffs and our HESD questions win be answered [Such head must nenepreriiy, ke has ite ration: to obt: | stubborn on ed, oo er) a Pomsible| Holler before he was Hitt aaa’) Casta. withia | Maustrial Srowth is increasing day by I Monday. Here are replies to ponte ‘of Mr Lincoln and of ofhete The defenders met thie move with eight the _— fifty miles of Now| ay" Wednesday's: Penotn ‘the Federal counctle of war, felatively small force, but incl straight one will be| There are a Lot of People off the Ball York by a man|_ Therefore it would eeem that the man| 4—cwhy is boiled water tnatpla?—|yson the aturdy shoulders of the con- Any troops as poi who ha used. Whichever one| Field who Remind us of the Batsman who understands) “"® Teallzes this state of affairs and | jocause all its carbonic acid has escap-|queror of Vicksburg. Gen, Grant was bi rig A tramped the Winehester Pike who, after being Struck Out, Slouches Just & smattering | °°, forth to And hip little, Seid . of) 04 the volling. not addicted to high military stratery, Pit) dmesg thins teunedl ee usede bing, | rulttuiness, putting forth the AVDR- farming and fowl- raising? I wis some one who has| had expertence| Back to the Bench and Observes to bis Mateys that the “Pitcher hasn't Got a ‘Thin, 2. 004 decay?)~The | but for direct tactics and plain fightin; ee ny aiee, with the woods cer, (he. Was undoubtedly « match for Gen, BO” led by Jubal Ratly, was Col. Hoo i ert Ellingham—stlll “Bob” to pie vi bon and hydrogen, forming carbonto|"%";, rst important vacancy now to fille comrades, as once again ‘taeees acid and water, be filled in the Army of the Potomao 'neward. views on all aides), may Indeed find Homeward, indeed, he marched: tea AVAROG AE GRAGETET in EL 4i8.—(What {a gun cotton?)—It t# made | was that of commander of the cavalry with strange feclings of ansiety ned bone rood and to that of the community, |PY seeking cotton wool in @ mixture of | corps, reasion. at if the i) turn fortune: AGE intelligent energy tn the country leven as he does tn the elty (and knowl- edge of ways and means may be found closing {8 made invis- ibly beneath the over- , lapped edges of the You can't Accumulate the Lolhpops front. until you Learn How to Assimélate | would answer fully yet briefly, giving NS Ss SS 1) yould mean much to hun- | f mtrio acid end sulphuric acta; washing | When Grant asked for a chief of cav- had taken of late pursued them 4 the Wallope! data, &c, It woul Ambasador Herrick: Lh now, py maine ped ja dreds of city folk wio hate town and)", “yop there were exported bread. [224 Arvin st. Gun cotton te six times |siry italien eumated, Seo. ttt wells? Wer south fr Ridge mountain aa Guire 8% paral! '8*! Better to Drop to the Bottom of the| long for the country.” | ntuffs amounting to $261,000,000; by 1910|%# effective, In a shell, ae te tte wetent | ion Under his command in the man's army was marching victoelomeg? i i ‘eatosias Of Hd a St List and Start All Over Again than Jusc| While I was in Paria I had the pleas-| the value of such exports had fallen | °f fUnpowder West and under Grant at Chattanooga. to the sea. The Confederacy wos oalty ~~ ure of a long talk with our Ambassa-| ia 90.000 and the imports had increased | 414—(What are sunspote?)—They are| tne sug: SS to Squeeze Through! ation therefore was one after cut in twain by the fall of Vicksburg, f Atlanta, ty an zee 62 inches dor Herric! to this question of igre $13,000,000, enormous as Gram ne to B, agpe] Grant 2 owe ta and he srompuy and ain by the lose A ey wite e ‘ back to the farm, and I saw something | phese figures are alarming, They | ™iles in diameter) for the mas lopte + eridan proposed to ta} ais the lower @ Some of us are not Wise Hnough (0) o¢ farm activity in England and|snow that the industry of cultivating| ame thet loave and enter the wun, | was that Grant himeelt hed selected communication with his Dase | yards, Discern that We are being Invited to a/ fe ne farmer in these vountrics|tne goll In the United States, relative | #6-—CHow do winds inareuse the aine | Sheridan, pen at Washington that would sub- Feast when Opportunity informally Patterm No. 7506| jsxs us to Take Pot Luck with Mimi is the mainstay of the nation, and to the increase in the population and the| and density of cloude?)—Cold wind cur- tu be the case. m4 Inia, and {sol Richmond, Personally, Sheridan was not an ims h: Fesbe as well as the horror of w: sr fs cut in trom method of living and bis steady success| augmented demand for foodstuffs, not|rents condense the airs invisible vapor! posing figure. Short and alight, he wiub now coming home to the < Pattern No, 7596—-Five Gored Skirt, 22 to 82 in walst aren are certainly an example for a Would-| only has failed to Progress but hasjand add It to the clouds with which they |jooked even younger than his age, which of the Valley as never before, 22 to 32 Walet. meanare, The Cheapest of All Excuses 1s that| be American farmer to follow. retrogressed decidedly in the last ten| come in contact. was just past thirty. He wi But ripened summer was all arou - J “Things aré Not Going Right at Homei"| Never in the history of our country| years. Untexs there is a substantial and —— — tn speech and manner, and to « and outward peace and plenty a Call at THE EVENING WORLD MAY MANTON FASHION has the demand for farmers been ep in-| rapid Increase in the volume of pro- ob vver seem Jackin, in : essen- that late August afternoon " ew BUREAU, Donadd Building, 100 West Thirty-second street (oppo-$| It's after having Called| sistent as at present. With the forth-| duction. the United States will soon VALUE RECEIVED. tial mualition Of & cavalry leader, whieh galloped up the ‘suntte Rndew ’ nue to Belle Bosquet. Gertrude ryuazed the World Our Oy Opener won't Do tl — be A Highly Successful Man who has | > to Find that our|coming plans for financing tho farmer,| cease to have @ aurplus of foodstuffa| Grigge—Who'd ever suppose that) del Unit em fe from the veranda te ; okt according to President Taft and Am-| for export.” Brown would lend himself to such a| Xedinil, NerVine oe eon us Sens meek bina) v 4 was reinforced by @ buxom dor Herrick and the pqwers that| Therefore, “K, 8. Jr." and all in-| contemptible acheme? others, person possibilities must increase rap-| quiring brothers, these, the findings of| Brigge—Ho didn't lend himself; he| iis own mon in the Army of the dress of mil te site Gimbel Bros.), commer @ixth evenue and Thirty-second street, ‘Obiete §New York, or sent by mail on receipt of ten cents in colm or ¢ ‘stecope for each pattern ordered, -LMPORTANT-Write your address plainly and alwaye specity (Oem ta postage ' ial sperts and economists, must cer-| sold himself for cash down,-—Boston | Cumberland, him bet! hdl cts. 1 LoaahmsogoeN Kateahié Shoun Himseit $0 de Maceptionaily |e nigh cost of ving Das deen now |saialy give the answer you seek |pramserh Land tpem thing, leave af . Me . mee z ath ; ; = me ple S