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Libertyville Independent, 15 Nov 1923, p. 14

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* are genuine?" : P "Anyone who studies them wust ; kmwmthqm."lnw "It B you want confirmation, 14-- Lord Kindersley yesterday of their exist-- ; & ~«nd advised him to sell as many of + / Mis shares as possible, Your finan; 4 clal column will tell-- you the result." -- "What do you want us to do with = INDIAN SUMMER TERM EXPLAINED; Aeoy ~ ie ul t on tare 2 OQpyvertisement -- ; a2exss's [ : M & ¢ m-mnyr-._ ; is BY E. PHILLIPS3 OPPENHEIM : p _: . e M t e _ @ name Indian Summer has its ln::ul in ~perpetuation in sea-- sonal analogous to it in more than swouy European countries and i8 in the literary conventions ot] threse continents, | The bm.lmt. takon from the T Americano for 1919, may throw some light upon --how the application .of the term had its incep 1 like Thoreau, Schaeffer and Dr. ur Lehman on the questions: * is Indian Summer," the wri may justly say: "There ain't any,"' Inception of 'Second Summer' -- is Explained by Various Many patient hopurs spent plodding through tomes of 'meterological re-- ports, weather bureau records and conmiting world acknowledged an-- IS -- A ---- MISCONCEPTION "Indian sammer; the name given to period of mild and pleasant weather which generally occurs toward the 0 Abptranen to" the Tont Aacade t of mnext decade the phrase wah 'second m-" "This indicates that the apell of weather knowna by that name was hot ~generally noticed much before 1800. The t :-mbo-' came « about years af-- ter 1 appearance, which was in ayivania and apread to "'Mhfln!m ' la in 1821, and to mi 'wommay qnsyps, ons of Vendetta begins between MICHAEL SAYERS, notoed oriminal, K¥ ::";* _ l':vo with J l:. Norman to his brid returns them: rec to Jangt Piam "the alverced "wife rom the divo of a = ticlan a bundle of man t., ovi« dence -f-.um the a husband and his te, Kindersley. * Michael calls at sh'.m of Lord Kindersiey an gran an &ntol'-vlov.' Sayers offers : A. * ersley a four--day Ssurequrt ht mespolat entois. whter that time the o for publication tn"l:o nvnog-. NoOW GO ON WITH STORY Michael Sayers Continues: NEXT morning there were sensa-- tional paragraphs in most of the financial papers. Shipping shares all reacted slightly, but the slump in Kindersley's was a thing no one could accour* for. They had fallen from six tu 'Aive within 24 hours, and as soon as I reached my offices in Holborn, I received m1 messages from Mr. Younghusband, imploring me to close with & proft of over 20,000 pounds. There was nothing whatever wrong with 'the shares, he assured meé, and. they were bound to railly. I listened to all he had to say, gave him positive instructions not to disturb my opera-- tions in any way, and disregarding his piteous protests, rang off and made my way to the great newspa-- per offices, where my business of the morning lay. f large sum of money for them and oc ty No wand mds io . "You-- ere yova I6 5 ther * > . "That will be your lookout. Their ments. He--went out of the room for a moment and returned 'with the edi-- tor. They both looked at me curi-- ~"Who are you, Mr. Buckross?" the editor asked. ~-- 0n w bought those papers. from Rendall's @ivorced wife. She hac a spite "2ict oi tiat toare mt be the | in take s mirall in tbat dirselionce t | E0P UR ws, i my reom, . : "You-- ere 0| to & in + l h o '"flflm"" " ~*| doctor's carringe was waiting outside mm',lflwt""aflm . "That will be your lookout. Their| Kindersiey House, and as I passed| **Xing stock «:':uhnm- pnuuumuwmhmmntuomcdgon.mowfth:"'""l":..mflm m'" = cnna M g > mmwmm,m mepaiye on hap t O ie k. .A P PA P " The editor looked thoughtfully out the window, His face was as hard as granite, but he had very gray, bu-- It took me an hour to get as far as the assistant editor. .I told him my story and showed him the--docu-- about bringing the thunders down upon Rendall," he said.' "But with Lord Kindersley it is a lttle differ-- ent. He is a considerable and reput-- abile Agure in society." --= _ _ the editor asked. was a certain ambunt of jJustification for His conduct. <~He averted a na tional disaster, even if the means he used were immoral." *"We should have no compunction "How can one be sure that they BEGIN HERE TODAY IS INTERESTING Artgt. NEA Service, Inc. -- "A" case "tan be built up for him. anu'-iwa'?&flfl-' certainly," the editor remarked mu--| * *"Colone!l Kecombe," _A . reminded singly, "What is your price £Or| flap, . o ies' * pyA these documents?t" cA «he exclatmed... . =--. _ : "Ten thousand pounds, and they| . J know that & daw must not be used before Thursday,"| in my makeup. or dep at, _ I I replied. % was the Colo: 'who had "Why not before Thursday? * Grey m "I" have given Lord Kindersiey 80| and whose ace there had led | much grace." ~ . C > some. . question . concerning & "You will leave the documents in | pearl no 7 $ 5n Bs 2 n 5# our hands?" the editor proposed. _:|~ =wnat do you want?"' sahe asked !u:'dl-nlm-lz. 4 sathieet L x__,i'_fi, :! plans, but I was consciqus of a saw i.hl,'thb: . morning,". and you :::m to taking <the irrevoo--] ssamed %.:'"& yed 5 % x step. * | _ She. 'at me <gr c"' *You shal have mn:lm ....fiwmfim t you will give me a letter with anxitety. Ks edging that they are my property.| "It is dear of you," she said. "but and promising to return them to M#} you nust go away at on You are without publication, should I desire m.%&tfim it, on Wednesday afternoon." Greyes is in "Me is with "What about the money?" the ed!--] my uncle now." _ tor asked. "Do you want anything "Whtbbomqlmr'lb on account?" ~--*I mandad. \, o lcanism ; to write in phrase of Indian Bummer is now a&literary convention of three cohntinents. -- "It is by no means easy to account for the origin of the term. The prin-- tipal characteristics of° the-- season "You are prepared to give me the 10,000 pounds?" is He shrugged his shoulders. "We never bargain," he said. Bome explanations of the origin o({ the term are (1) that the Indians "J dicted such spelis of weather; (2) that the smokiness was produced by Indian fires; (3%, that this was the last season of Indian attacks on the settlements of the whites; (4) that the season partook of the Indian character of deceptiveness;" (5) that the name was given because one*of the seasons in East India was similar in character. § w ARE & VV ALRANTY o mt o n i it ET & I a MB FIVE MINUTES TO GET| She walked with me to the door, CLEAR AWAY. THEN GIVR|but when I would have opened it, THIS MESSAGE." t she checked me. Already her.step e was lighter. She took my hands in *There is no standard value for such | hers and I felt her soft breath upon goods as you offer. The question is | my face. * f whether' you want anything in ad--| _ "I am going to thank you." she . "No, thank you," I answered. "I'll| ~ 1t was an absurd interlude.~ <, ;, "No, thank you," I answered. "I'll have the whoie amount on Wednes-- day efternoon, or the documents back again. I think that it will .be the money." * "I trust so," my two editorial Mud'rplmmtematunhoa. & ~o o ~ Oxwm:mgmm dersley -- Bhipping Company | shares stood at three and three-- quarters, and a brief notica in the Times announced that His Lordship was confined to his house in South Audiey Street, suffering from a se-- vere nervous breakdown. 'Some idi-- otle impuise prompted me, after I had pald my brief visit to my office, to take a stro!l in that direction. A doctor's carriage was waiting outside on the other. side of. the way, the front door opened and the doctor himself stood on the threshold. The thought of Lord Kindersiey's suffer-- ings had, up to the present, inspired in me no other feeling--than ons of "Horace Walpole used the term in 177&;" in reference to Amgrica, but in tion to weather in the tropics. *Squaw Winter' was the name for the spell of cold weather and perhaps t: key to the nomenciature is to-- sought in .this latter term." ~ mild amusement, By the side of the doctor, however, Beatrice Kindersiey I knew then that the end of my mmhohuuhua.}m weakening. My nerve had" gone. The insfincts of childhood were re-- turning to me. The morbid curiosity which had brought me to the bouse had been gratified with a vengeance. stroke. The girl's drawn and tear-- Engiisn .. ..>sa Rights. Under the English lTaw the wife of ® efl-mdlsltpny"w'm all she can, short 'of commi mmnmnmn: Justice, al «hy other person ie e as an after husband is forbldden to shield his wife who is a criminal, His duty is to band her over to the officers of Justice, * -- _ Shortest Rail ¥ The stfortest raitrond in --the wond i# operated at the docks atong Bt. Joseph's bay in Florida. Together with all its switching tracks it covers only 1.43 miles. Over 1,000,000 feet Of lumber are bendled over it in a '"ro f Cause .... iifect. » Another reason why it is dangerous to leave your tonsils in place a: lomwer is because the murgcon's cat «VRRY WELL," I SAID, "GIVE| Norman Greyes," #t scemed / "':t'l":** 'r"g" ament 'k hae fade Was: clouted w...."". & ~% x "xu::nolm.:-tong-'ut you n away at on ou are nmnh'ctuhh rhfiz' Norman Greyes is in the "Me is with my uncle now.* _ ______ *"What. is he doing. here?" 1 de mwwdm to receive an unespecte . Her ence of my old enemy, my whole being seemed --to atiffen. -- Yet, alas, ~_"My uncle sent for him to see if ha. could help. : Thega is monle serious trouble.. I don't know what it is. his sa¥6 that you'are unhappy?"* *¥ntirely," she'answered without hesitation. . ."I kaow that a great many people call him hard and un scrupulous. To me he has--been the dearest person in «the world. It your distress mean? Has your uncle always been good to you? Is it for I glanced at my watch. + --*Very well," I said, "give mé fAive minutes to get clear away, When I am gone, give him this message, Tell 'him that Buckross hag.changed his mind and that he will hear from him before five o'clock." * f '"What have you to do with all this?" she asked wonderingly. --~ -- Bmmmmuuu-uun editor did everythingr short of going down on their knees, to Induce me to change my mind. They offered me practically a fortune. They hinted, even, that honers might be obtained--for me. They tried to appeal to my patristism, to sundry noble motives, not one of which I posseased. In the end I obtained the m%fi;b!fl- Beatrice Kindersioy, & great bunch of ye i a messenger to go with me in the mm,nguuwd That night I spent in my room, taking stock of myself,.: On the eredit side, my deal in Kindersleys had brought me a profit of some-- thing like $0,000 pounds, likely to be considerably added to, 'as: I had mchtufla,um. ¥urther, I . abstained from becoming a biackmailer, and I had knocked Mr. Edward Rendall down. On the other hand, I might easily have made a hiundred © thousand pounds--and> I had behaved like a fool, Perhaps the most disquleting feature of it all was that I was satisfied with the At the thought of the near preas "The Great Klusion," cleventh story of this remarkable series, will begin in our next issue. Te i: me fAve You can have your eyes examinéd by our Registered Optometrist. *IMre / Your broken lenses can be duplicated without the presgription. sitre 3% We can make the prescription, -- "=~*$ _« m tcafty Jewelers and Optitians > "Self--made" V; i Has But! 1 ( AH TCO. '-- Me:Declares:" _ .. [ .. -- _ DN M salc sut 'nes Km To odify|MaY souve ma PRoblem he has in' him the 'zeeds"of miajesty. Ho" is endowed 'with --free »will. --Man is related "od his 'Mly..'?fl!!t the mm i mrparoopi zn UA wl OS \« l en r n§lp with= Delty.: Man Has the power that power to his own hurt.> If <He had"no power of" going wroug he wouald be merely a ~perfect: mechan-- done al Inhabit to with Divinity. w A inain woog "Among the immensities ot the universe --man appéars insignificant and he is hnnmod by 'his~ animail ancestry. < --He much to contend against and overcome. Sometimes he seems evil and ugly, but man is im-- mature, he is in the process of mak-- ing, and unfnished things are often There is no reason, however, for mankind to become--discouraged and give up the battle, even if he is a long way from being perlect. If he will stick around a few centurles everything will be all right.~ 3 BIG POSSIRILITIES "The animal known as man," Sir Oliver said, "has infinite possibili-- ties of development. When the work is complete, through the slow pro-- cesses of ages, it will be 'seen that the product will be worth all the la-- bor and sacrifice and pain that seems tobo:i"ln'boen necessary to bring it . t-" K + ugly: This earth is not the only place where reasoning. being exist, accord-- ing~to Sir Oliver. scattered about space, this ~little world is the only one with rationai **My-- own researches," he contin-- ued, "have led me to a firth convic tion in the fundamental beliefs 'of christianity. Every star is a sun, and liké our sun . probably has planets revolving around it. --It is infinitely improbable that with all the worlds order running throughout the uni-- s verse. Theilaws of physits and light hold io the most distant star, and - men This proves "that the whole 'universevig-- subject to one Guiding Power. : * : "Our Cosmos is the Milky Way and | 7/* beyond it theres are other ~stellar Sepaninh n --Bystems with other --milky ways at| _ _ _ -- "ditsantes. incredibly remote. f --'-- * ATOM INFINITESIMAL 4 i *"The atom is so small that a thim--| M _ bleful of water contains as many atoms as there are thimbles of wa-- : ter in the Atlantic Ocean, yet the 4 €lectrons of the atom are not crowd-- 'ed and are moving in a' beafutifol system of law and order similar to creatures upon it. of space in the atom. -- The minute~ ness is such that we are bozinni'i hwmumuhuymh_! smallness as there is no limit to. greatness. ' "The age of the earth is estimated at 400,000,000 years.~ We shail know exractly with a little further progress. "ltueuytouumo;-oe% & cal universe, but that would not be a high universe, which must contain creatures who go right not because they must, but because they will." --. that of the planets.--There-- is plenty -- c on Loode. _ mober Pn BY L Nov, would not Rhave | kinship y% from perfect.. But le uua#fi;w' ' What --may prove to b6 the first News -- Service~~|step in " the' solution of the: problem haye he can-- utilize your of law and Has But! Triangle Construction Co. Heat \Community Bargain Day THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15th -- § AMls nowhere aisa. ® Al& ---- " and One and-- Two--Trouser Suits in Three Specially Priced Groups . . Money Cheerfully Refunded B;u?tlés threaten other fuel but you may be sure there will be sufficient gas. hn * @ : Save the coal pile pile, install a Radiantfire Gas Heater." We have portable types to be used in chilly rooms or per®: No shortage of gas this winter. Depend on gas for heating purposes. See our {all display. If its done with heat you can do it better with gas. _Julius H. Sinykin Genesee and Water Streets, Waukegan, %finn be. sucgessful!, DUC tMs have to : bo proved <next sum ;uvh:.:t WMU& . which mays »h":d. Heretpfore flom of contractors has baen the late fall and early spring jobs, .as the frost --The company now is pouring con-- erete for <the molded® raillings. recommended instead--ot hanging for murderers by an English coroner and jory, after an inquest on an Arab murderer--who was given "the time of his lifé" in jail before he was hanged. hi isA 4 y l y IN .PFAOVOIVUVURAAL FLJ «ds o f!mmbm&?&&g_.]'rfim'umnutow * ~ _2 ~.~_. \\y ~ @arly delivery of Christmas orders. s + _~TYHTARARAFrAArer«t® rW@#iRuTHKALWIL 117 North Genesee Etreet "" e . HEMMEN'S STUDIOW..." Shore G Fi.. . --VP. and a tife senteace was )ATS i# Mkeness, you have found a AR worth something; mark his manner of doing it, as very characteristic of him, In the Arst place, he could not have discerned the object at all, or seen the vital type of it, unless he nad, what we may call, sympathized with It«= had sympathy in him to bestow on ob= jects, (It is 'bis faculty, the mun of ;wm.mhq-u-m true likeness,--not the faise, superficial one, of the thing he has got to work in. --And how much of mortality is in the kind of Insight we get of anything ! the ogye seeing in all things what it brought with<it the facuity of seeing!** «----Carlyle,© * _ -- rds paint

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