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little Southern town depended almost
wholly upon the development of water
power through a dam. One Of the
leading citizens had prevailed upon
many friends to invest money in the
project, and it's failure meant ruin for
him, as he would have sold his ances-
trail estates TO foot the loss Of his fol-
lowers An accident to a disabled mo-
tor boat upon the tempestuous river
threw the son of the man who was
trying to ruin his dreams into his
hospitable hands.
The story tells how the youth, who
had been an incorrigible idler, changed
completely his viewpoint and defeated
the schemes OF his fathers corpora
ton. winning thereby the heart and
hand of the fair daughter of his gall
liant host
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Reviewed by XAVIER LYNDON.

TN four of the stories that make
up this collection. 1.-The Pert Lit
tie Hat" Urn Burial" THE Gil
macteric" and Punch and judy
Morley says nothing charmingly.
These tales furnish ample proof that
man who has the literary touch can
he entertaining even when his theme
is trifiing, Deft bits of characterize
ton, bright snatches of dialogue and
an occasional neatly turned phrase
make one forget the wateriness of
the plots. Certainly at no point in
the reading of this quartet will the
reader remark. The plot thickens." f"
Yet these four yarns hold the interest.
The slightest of them, THE Climac-
teric." is merely an episode. It has
to do with Eustace Veal On his way
20 the office one day some one said
of him, There goes Veal, He's be-
ginning to look old, isn't he?" This
has the effect of making Mr.. Veal
try to look young His efforts are
unsuccessful People continue TO
refer to him as an aging man. That
is the whole story; and yet Mr.. Nor
ley tells IL so adroitly that 1t holds
the interest and makes one chuckle.
This is art not the highest form.
perhaps. yet art nevertheless. There
are strokes that remind one OF Henry
Cuyler Bunner.
IL the other seven stories i'm the
collection were as charmingly incon-
sequential. Tales from "A Rolltop
Desk" would be fine book. Unfor-
tunately. this group is simply incon-
seauential. In one of them. Referred
10 the Author" he tries to make drama
out OF the story of a soulful actor
who is prosecuted by the typical low
brow stage director of fiction. The
feeling you get as you read this tale
is that the actor would do well to go
out and buy himself a sense of humor.
The persecution seems unreal When
the actor cannot stand II any longer
incidentally. at this point. neither
can the reader), he cracks his oppres-
sor's skull and in the process gets
killed himself We would have liked
the story better IL the stage director
had killed the actor and smoked a
cigar over his dead body. An ex-
perienced actor who hasn't sense of
humor belongs In the other world,
anyhow; certainly man of this type
can have more fun playing a harp
a..
Of stage director might never have
done any good staging. but he could
have done some useful work i'm this
life. for instance. think of all the
people he could have kidded out OF
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Too careful
of her mother
THE GUARDED ROOM. BY G. l.
Whitman. John Lane Company.

The GUARDED ROOM. BY G.. l.
Whitman. John Lane Company.
TIME theme Of this very English
novel is rather worth while
and unhackneyed. though IL is
somewhat clumsily handled. IL is the
futility and possible evil of over
anxious self sacrifice, the desire to
spare" others and TO take up burdens
that arc perhaps better borne by those
to whom they belong. IL also involves
the contrast in ideals between the late
Victorian and the up to date young
women and their men.
The contents Of the guarded room"
were An invalid mother and her de-
voted daughter. the mother afflicted
with heart trouble" and needing to
he spared any excitement or RESPONSE
bility The daughter fades out and
dies. and all the time the mother is
yearning to get out. and probably
quite capable Of doing so. The family
is of the old English gentry type,
rather hard up and finding II difficult
to NJ into new conditions. They are
also afflicted with an eccentric mem
ber. the eldest son. who turns recluse.
abandons his disegreeable wife and
makes a mess Of things. OF course II
ends cheerfully enough after few
deaths. As o psychological study II is
suggestive. as a story 1t drags.
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STEPSONS OF LIGHT. by Eugene
Manlove Rhodes. Houghton. Miffiin
Company.
A GAIN and again We see re-
~ produced in the contemporary
novel the same Western at
mosphere-a vast expanse of desolate
country "A group of cowboys of the
rough and ready" type, n liberal
sprinkling of gums, some underhanded
manpuvring and an unpublished Sir
Galahad who bears the colors to vic
tory at the final page. At times the
scene may he the mountains, at times
the desert lat times the motivating I'M
pulse may be a woman. at times the
lure of gold; but in general the char
acters are the same, the action is the
same and the plot is built along the
same lines; and we might almost take
up any one of the novels as the logical
sequel 10 any other
"Stepsons of Light" is "A book that
Goes not vary greatly from type.
Among the mountainous wastes Of
Now Mexico dwells Johnnie Dimes, a
hero, at once clever. resourceful and
chivalrous; by chance he becomes the
butt Of three murderers. who en-
Geavor to fasten upon him the re-
sponsibility for their crimes: and the
story is largely concerned with how
he succeeds in disentanging himself
from the net they have fastened about
him and in delivering them instead up
to Justice The plot, however, is far
from we'll organized many foreign
elements arc introduced, with no ap-
parent object ether than to fill up
space: we sec the ghost of love story,
in which Johnnie Dimes has no part;
and a number of shadowy and nom
essential characters move vaguely be-
fore us, tending 10 cast into the back
ground the definite picture we get Of
the central figure.
Fortunately. the book is relieved by
some qualities lacking i'm many West
ern novels. Prominent among these
is its humor which stares at us
whimsically on repeated occasions;
and no less noteworthy Is a spirit Of
meditativeness manifesting itself when
Mr.. Rhodes forgets temporarily that
he has a story TO tell and regales us
with ruminations in many respects
more interesting than his narrative.
In particular, he has some amusing
comments to make on realism and on
pcssimism. one passage will illustrate
and. by the way. one cannot help
expressing the wish that the author
had done more bn this vein:
"Only of late has II been discovered
that thinker is superficial and shall
low unless he whines; that no man is
wise unless he views with alarm.
Eager propa ganda has disseminated
the glad news that everything is going
10 the demnition bowwows. Willing
hands pass on the word. The method
is simple They write very long books
in which they set down the evil on
one side-and nothing on the other.
That is realism"
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dainty and talented sister who right
fully inherits from the mother Rose.
Sparkling in spots, alternately lively
and slow in its progress. this novel,
which combines a kind of ancient
charm with some modern features
which are not disagreeabe, seems
likely TO be picked up and dropped out
of a good many hammocks this sum-
mer, but probably TO be picked up
again until the last page has been
read.
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COQUETTE. BY Frank Swinnerton.
George H. Doran Company.
THE EDUCATION OF ERIC LANE.
BY stephen McKenna. George II.
Doran Company.
A T the same time appear new
~ novels by authors of some note
in which the chief characters
are women, born into opposite social
spheres. but with some traits in COM
mon. Each is determined 10 work
things out for herself. wilful indi-
viduality is the keynote. But each is
hindered in her progress by traitor
Gus tenderness. In both cases the girl
is put forth as though the severe au-
thor counted on the worlds condemna-
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A n amusing figure that would
~ not be out of place in Dick
ens's broadest farce or George
Eliot's Warwickshire dromdtis per-
sonae is the auctioneer, Hellingwel,
who talks breathlessly and quotes in
correctly in the most readable parts
of Diana Patrick $ new novel He
and his "cushiony" wife are only side
lights. ii is true, but their lights are
not borrowed from the other more
important personages lin the authors
opinion) who make the good and
evil of the story.
There is plenty of both, for the
writer is as lavish of events scenes
and colors as Ouida. whom she good
naturedly despises; Rose. who plucked
up spirit to defy her chapelgoing
father: Caradoc, the man she mar
ried in spite of himself and her; all
the dismal troop Of characters sur
rounding these chief persons in a
still more dismal manufacturing place
In England: then the gayer crowd who
cluster about Rose and her husband in
their honeymooning at Nice. in Prov
ence and Brittany Interesting parts
of the world, vividly pictured) there
is scarcely type of Frenchman or
Englishman that Miss Patrick has not
effectively studied, and she works
them quite congruously into her loose
ly woven scheme
haf
Part !. Of this book where Rose is
the heroine and it closes with her
Death. She leaves two children. Pearl,
whose father was the erratic Caradoc,
and Vivien. who came from her union
with a wandering musician of fine
character "A union that her stern
chapelgoing father stigmatized as un-
lawful. Because Of this distinction he
devised his property-grown vast
after a case of arson engineered by
himself--to his legitimate grandchil-
dren.
In Part H. the story reaches down
into war times. and between them
Pearl and Vivien divide the honors
due to a leading lady. Pearl who has
been brought up "in luxury" but in
bad taste to Judge by the clothes she
is described as wearing develops the
vampire type. while Vivien, early left
an orphan without patrimony, flowers
into all that is sweet and good. She
knows of her relationship to the
granddaughter of the millionaire mill
owner Binns, but conceals il while
seeking 10 form ties of friendship with
her half sister Unhappily for them
both, Vivien has engaged herself to a
young Londoner who reads very like
cad and PEARLS chief interest in
Vivien is expressed by cutting her
out of lover. Pearl, indeed. is re-
markabe in this friendly. old fash
ioned book for her modernity; she is
true vampire of the day.
The experienced novel reader quick
ly realizes that Vivien's love affair
doesn't touch the quick. and i'm the
success of Pearls plots nobody suf-
fers: certainly not Vivien. for there
is at her elbow another a celebrated
novelist. who, ncognito. has guided
the first steps of this young, aspiring
author up to the difficult peaks of
literature. On the eve of publication
information of the date of the death
of Caradoc comes in time to dispel the
cloud of illegitimacy on Vivien but
alas. by darkening the title of Pearl
But the latter is by this time married
and the reader cares little for her
anyway. In the last pages it is her
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SPANISH CASTLES
ARE SHADOWED
WITH SUFFERING

PROMETHEUS THE FALL OF THE
HOUSE OF LIMON: SUNDAY SUM-
LIGHT by Ramon Perez Ibe Ayala.
Prose TRANSACTIONS by Alice p. Hub
bard. Poems Done in English by
Grace Hazard Conkling. f.. p. Dutton
g co.
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After the civil war

THE FIRE BRINGERS. BY Francis
Lynde. Charles Scribner's Sons.
TIME old south resented the eco
nomic invasion Of the over
= efficient Yankee more than the
defeat on tho field Of battle. In THE
Fire Bringers" AIR. Lynde partly ex-
plains why. The future OF sleepy
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Trifles touched with. hurnOr

TALES FROM A ROLLTOP DESK.
BY Christopher Morley. Doubleday.
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SHADOWS. BY Alma Newton. John
Lane Company
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REVIEWS OF NEW FICTION
Old and new style heroines
Reviewed by SUSAN STEEL.

THE ISLAND OF DESIRE. BY Diana
Patrick. II. P. Dutton & Co.
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STEPSONS OF LIGHT. BY Eugene
Manlove Rhodes. Houghton. Miffiin
Company.
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"Take Along a Book"
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The Next Corner

A splendid novel Of life In tho open.
OF blood stirring adventures during
a mountain feud and Of brave
man, inspired by the love Of q splen
did woman winning out against long
odds. 81 90.
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B. M. BOWER
Cou-Counfry

vivid and striking story 81 -tld
animal life by the author of 'Ths
Cross Pull % S1fh
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Flood Tide

A charming story 81 Csp~ Cod life
by the author OF The Harbor Road."
81 90
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II \ four of the stories that max
up this collection. 1.-The Pert Lit
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1921-01-25

NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS.

NOTICE 10 tA9N i fA0lOtNSt-
OFFICE OF THE BOARD OF PUBLIC
WORKS. EAST CHICAGO. INDIANA.
JANUARY 1s. 1921.
Sealed proposals viii be received b.
the Board of Public Works of the City
Of East Chicago. at the office OF the
Board Of said City until 1880 o'clock r.
M. on the 7th day of February. 1921
at which time and place said bids VIII
be publicly opened and duly considered
for the construction of the following
described improvements.
Paving Guthrie street waiting street
and Dlckcy Place as authorized by the
Improvement Resolution No A1o7.
passed and adopted by said Board OF
Public Works on the goth day Of De-
cember. 1920.
It is estimated that there will he
about square yards of paving.
more or less.
Said improvement shall be constructed
! and made in accordance with said reso-
luton, and the maps. plats, plans, pro
files and specifications for the same on
file in the office of the Board of said
City.
Proposals must be made on blanks fur
nished by the said Board and in com
pliance with the instructions hereto at
tached, which blanks can be had on ap-
plication to the City Clerk. and must
be accompanied by the usual statutory
affidavit of non-colluston. and b. a
certified check to be drawn on some
known responsible bank or trust COM
pany and made payable to the order Of
the City Treasurer of the City of East
Chicago, Indiana, for an amount not
less than two and one-half per cent OF
the Engineers estimate Of the cost Of
the work bid upon. but in no case shan
such check be fore a sum less than one
hundred 100000 dollars, to insure the
execution of the contract for which such
bids is made, and that he will give
a bond with surety to be approved By
said Board insuring the faithful per-
Torrance Of said work and compliance
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1921-01-25

SHERIFF"S SALE. NO. 1891. STATE
OF INDIANA. COUNTY OF LAKE, SIS:
LAKE CIRCUIT COURT. NOVEM-
BIER TERN. 1920 THE CONNER
CIAL BANK VS.. ADELINE MILLER
A WIDOW ET-AL.
BY virtue of an order Of sale to ne
directed from the Clerk of the Lake
Circuit Court. 7 Will expose to public
sale to the highest bidder for cash in
hand. at the east door OF the Court
House in Crown Point. Indiana, on Sat
urday the 18th day OF February. 1921.
between the hours of ten o'clock A. NJ
and four O'Clock P. NJ, the rents and pro-
fits for a period not exceeding seven
years, of the following described real
estate. to-wit:
Lot Three and all Of lot four in block
four Of the original Town, now City Of
Hammond, Indiana, except that part Of
the said lot three which is occupied by
the North East corner Of the Opera
House building which part thereof is
more definitely described as follows to
wit; Beginning at the Southwest corner
of lot three thence running North on the
West line thereof four inches, tn renee
East seven and seven-tenths feet, thence
South TO the South line thereof and
thence West on said South line to the
place of beginning; also part of the
Northwest one-quarter of the Southwest
e-quarter of section 81. township 81
north. range west of the second prin-
cipal meridian. described as follows;
Commencing at point IT'S feet north Of
the north side of the right of way of
the Michigan Central Railroad where
the west limo of said section crosses
said right of way; thence so. So degi ees
east $50 feet and parallel with the Mich
igan Central Railroad; thence south so
feet and parallel with the west line If
said section; thence north So, west $50
feet and parallel with said railroad:
ginning in Hammond, Lake County,
Indiana.
IF said rents and profits will not sell
for a sufficient sum to satisfy said do
cree. interest and costs. viii at the
same time and place offer for sale the
fee simple in and to said real estate
or so much thereof as may be sufficient
to satisfy said judgment interest. costs
and accruing costs. Said sale will be
made without relief from valuation or
appraisement laws.
Taken as the property of Adeline
Miller. q widow et-al at the suit of The
Commercial Bank.
william H. Odds. Sheriff Lake County
Indiana.
White. Sheerer. Peterson et-al. Att'ys
for Plaintiff
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H. X. GROVES.
4. " WICISIrN
TOLLESTON BANK
ELECTS OFFICER

At the annual meeting Of the stock
holders and directors oe the First
state Bank Of ToueSton. the following
officers We're named to serve during
the ensuing year:
G. J. Bader president; Frank Bo7-
man. vice president; c. J. Dunn.
cashier; Paul Borman. assistant cash
Ter.
The board Of directors remains the
9ane as last year. It IS composed %
seven members who are @. J. Bader,
Frank Borman. c. A. Borman. George
Behnke, Fred J. Smith. H. c. Rutz ana
C. J. Dunn
\ six per cent dividend was de-
clared to the stockholders for the last
SIX months OF 1920
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1921-01-25
II. X. GROVES.
f. w. WICKEY
OTTO c. z. sEEHASE,
Board of Public Works
Attest. =. Y RICHARDS.
City Clerk 1885

No. A zoo
NOTICE FOR PUBLIC HEARING.
EAST CHICAGO. INDIANA. JANC-
AIRY IS. 1921,
To Whom 1t May Concern
You are hereby notified that the
Board of Public Works Of the City
of East Chicago. Indiana did on the
18th day of January. 1921. adopt a
resolution that an Improvement be
made in said City as follows:
That Pennsylvania avenue between
Mckinley street and Michigan avenue
and Washington street between Pitts
burgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago r. r.
tracks to the northeast line of Block
avenue. be improved by paving the
same with Plan "A" One course con-
crete on sand foundation: Plan "B"
Two course concrete on sand founda-
ton: Plan &C" Brick on concrete
foundation; Plan Il" Asphaltic CON
crete on concrete foundation.
All work done in the making of
said described public Improvement
shall be in accordance with the terms
and conditions Of such Improvement
Resolution. and the details. drawings.
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plans. prohles and specifications for
such proposed Improvement which are
on file and may be seen in the office
Of the Board of Public Works Of said
City.
That said Board Ct Public Works
has fixed the It'll day Of February.
1921, at 1880 o'clock p. NJ. at its Of
foe in said city as the time and place
for the public consideration OF the
proposed Improvement. at which time
said Board Of Public Works VIII hear
all persons interested, or whose prop
erty is liable TO be assessed for said
improvements and viii decide whether
the benefits TO the property liable 20
be assessed for such Improvement will
equal the estimated cost thereof
by order Of the Board of Public
Works.
H. X GROVES.
f. W. WICKEY
OTTO c. f. SEEHASE
Board of Public Works.
Attest. r. Y. Richards.
city Clerk.
Jan Is-25-I92I
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sponsible for debts contributed by any
one but myself
FIRED MUELLER,
1-2f-8 Lansing. Ill
NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT OF
ESTATE ~ THE LAKE SUPERIOR
COURT. 10. 2017. JANUARY TERN,
1921. IN THE MATTER OF THE
ESTATE OF MIKE FIKErE. DE-
CEASED
Notice is hereby given to the Heirs.
Lega tees and Creditors of Mike Fikete,
deceased. to appear in the Lake Superior
SQUIRT. held at Hammond, Indiana, on
the I4th day of February, 1921. and
show cause. if any. why the Final Set
Element Accounts with the estate Of said
decedent should not be approved; and
said heirs are notified to then and there
make proof of heirship, and receive their
distrIhutive shares.
WITNESS the Clerk of the Lake
Superior Court, at Hammond this nth
day Of January. 1921
Herbert L. wheaton. clerk Lake
Superior Court
NOTICE or FINAL SETTLEMENT OF
ESTATE IN THE LAKE SUPERIOR
COURT 30 1889. JANUARY TERN,
1921 IN THE MATTER OF THE
ESTATE OF STEFAN GAVERA, DE-
CEASED
Notice is hereby given 10 the Heirs.
I4egatees and Creditors Of Stefan Gavora
deceased. to appear in the Lake Superior
Court held at Hammond. Indiana, on
the 14th day of February, 1921. and
show cause If any, why the Final Set
| tlement Accounts with the estate Of
/ said decedent should not be approved:
and said heirs are notified to then ana
| there make proof Of heirship. and re-
ceive their distributtve shares
WITNESS the Clerk of the Lake
Superior Court. at Hammond. this nth
/ day Of January, 1921.
Herbert l. Wheaton. Clerk Lake
Superior Court.
| NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT OF
ESTATE. IN THE LAKE SUPERIOR
! COURT. NO. 1891, JANUARY TERN.
1921 IN THE MATTER OF THE
ESTATE OF DAN BRODOWSKI. DE-
( CEASED.
Notice is hereby given to the Heirs.
Legatees and Creditors Of Dan Brodow-
ski deceased. TO appear in the Lake
Superior Court held at Hammond. IuGi-
ana. on the 14th day of February. 1921.
and show cause. if any. why the Final
Settlement accounts with the estate of
said decedent should not be approved:
there make proof Of hoirship. and re.
ceive their distributive shares.
WITNESS the Clerk OF the Lake