The Centre reporter. (Centre Hall, Pa.) 1871-1940, March 12, 1925, Image 3

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WRIGLEYS
‘after every meal”
Parent's: the
children to care for thet eth
Qive them Wrigleys.
It removes food 34
from the teeth. Strengthens
cles
the gums. Combats acid
Secret of Long Life
Seventy years old, looks about fifty
and feels even younger, Is an apt de-
scription of Elmer Gray, assistant
county attorney of Hennepin county,
Minn. He says it Is all because for
more than 35 years he has gone with-
wut eating noon lunch. By not eating
the 13.000 meals he conservatively es-
imates that. he has saved $3250, but
by Victor Rousseau
Copyright by W. G. Chapman
CHAPTER IX-—Continued
an] fps
“At first, when I came here, it was
only at times that he'd take the mor-
phine, and then he'd have terrible out-
bursts of rage, and his mind would go,
especially when he'd have those fits
after he came back from Avonmouth.
But after that the hoodoo got him.
That was when I was afrald.”
“The hoodoo?” inquired Joan.
“Miss Wentworth, the devil who
was at him so long got hold of him
once or twice. I've seen him come
back from Avonmouth a different man,
Miss Wentworth, That's when I've
been afraid. Because the devil that
can kill the body Isn't much of a
devil, but when he kills the soul there
Is no help but prayer. When he's in
those dreadful moods he's another
man. He's a wicked man, Miss Went-
worth, and I'd shoot him then, if he
tried to harm me or any of mine, and
I wouldn't think I'd killed Doctor Lan-
caster, It all began after they accused
him of stealing the trust funds.”
“It is pot true,” said Joan,
“I'm sure it isn't, Miss Wentworth.
But you old Doctor Lancaster
didn't leave the charge of the fund
to his son; he left it in the care of
the trustees. And there were com-
see
vishes some one to tell him where
it is.
All evils are “giant evils” to those |
who have no faith in the human race.
plications about the hospital at Avon-
And then, after the doctor's
of their
marriage {U'changed all his nature.”
“I have heard of that,” said Joan
“But we must not discuss
“Why, everybody knows about that,
Miss Wentworth. Before It happenad
He'd been
She came from
She was the reigning
it turned her heart to a stone to have
The doctor was a young man
her heart, such as it was, than
“She led the doctor a
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He
a word to
man
ered. That broke the doctor up.
took to drugs then, they tell me.
It stood over on Morley's hill, but it
More and more housce
wives are turning to
Snow King Baking
Powder. They like it
because it's so reliable.
Its high quality ap-
peals, too. A 25-ounce
can costs only 25 cents.
farm house. And the doctor
the funds, they sald, and
responsible at all,
Was
wasn't
using
“The trustees found that the money
was gone Nobody knew where It
went, because the doctor had his own
Inheritance, and he wasn't the man to
inder. They wouldn't do
anything to him, because of his fam-
fly, but they put Mr, Myers in charge
of the finances. That's all,
vs liked Lim, but what could do
it? He was here when Doctor
Jenkins and [I were appointed, and as
soon we understood
were agreed to stay as long as we
could and try to help the doctor.”
“Mrs. Fraser, 1 want to know why
Mr. Myers incited Doctor Lancaster
to use morphine,” said Joan.
“Miss Wentworth"
“You know he did. You told me
And Doctor Jenkins knows."
The matron looked agitated. “What
do?" she cried. “Suppose
what can two people do
mah like Myers? Suppose
we had said so, who wonld have be-
lieved us? We did all we could do;
or squ
we
as
we
gO
we
we knew,
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rather stay with him and help where
we could than be discharged and do
nothing.”
She looked at Joan piteously, like a
child caught in wrong-doing.
“lI know you did your best,” an-
swered the girl, “But why should
Doctor Lancaster stay here in Myers’
power, instead of at his home In
Avonmouth, where he Is respected
and powerful? Nothing of all this Is
The matron wrung her hands. “1
don't know,” she answered. “1 sup
pose that man has had him by the
throat In more ways than we know.
Whenever the doctor used to go to
Avonmouth Mr, Myers would go with
him, and generally he'd come back
with him. Miss Wentworth, till you
came here the doctor wasn't a man;
what with his drugs and the hold Mr.
Myers had over him, he was just a
machine, And Mr. Myers was the
driver.”
Joan had the feeling that she should
not listen te the matron's talk about
Lancaster; It seemed disloyal of her;
but she felt, too, that she must know
more, and speedily, If she was to
thwart that menacing evil which she
sensed more and more clearly as the
mwoments passed.
“Miss Wentworth,” sald the matron,
placing her hand on the girl's arm
firmly, “there's something else 1 ought
to have told you about. Mrs, Dana"
“Hark!” Interrupted Joan, holding
up her hand for silence,
Then they heard, a long distance
sway, and inaudible to one whose at
tention was not strained, like theirs,
the sound of the wheels of Jenking'
buggy.
Chapter X
Joan hurried out upon the veranda
and stood peering under her ralsed
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eand across the raln-swamped fields
to where the carriage road wound in
and out among the hills, The sun
had set, and it was beginning to grow
dusk; a bat was flitting under the
eaves, and the steady downpour never
ceased. Mrs, Fraser, who had moved
to follow the girl, went back into her
room. There was a queer, troubled
pucker about her lips, and once she
went to the door and looked iptently
at Joan, who had not stirred from her
position of expectancy.
Presently, looking out
dripping trees, Joan could see the
buggy crawling up the hill through
the mud. Slowly it moved along the
road, Jenkins was driving, and there
were two men with him, not one, Joan
recognized Lancaster’ then she per
ceived, first the hard hat, next Myers
face under it.
She shuddered. The worst had come
about, then. But the last battle was
Joined, and under her fears she felt
a hardening of her spiritual resources.
She would not falter. She went slow-
ly toward the top of the three low
wooden steps. and stood there like o
statue, watching the buggy pass up
the weed-grown drive until it came to
a standstill,
Lancaster and Myers were laughing
together, and, as Myers saw the girl,
he sald something, and the other
threw back his head In merriment,
Myers was the first to descend. He
raised his hat to Joan and grinned.
“The doctor's come back quite safe,
you see” he sald, “and feeling fine
again.”
Joan hardly noticed the man: she
was bracing herself to bear what was
to come,
Lancaster got out, and Jenkins, con
trary to his custom, lashed the horse
violently and drove rapidly away
Myers and Lancaster came up the
steps of the porch together. Now Lan
caster was raising his hat in turn, and
under It was the face of the smirking
bully of the operating theater at the
Avonmouth hospital
“Well, 1 had a fine trip to Avon
mouth, my dear, and [ hurried buck as
fast as | could, to see you. 1 couldn't
stay away from very long, Joan,
after you saved my life. And [ per
through the
you
good friends
Where
We're all going to be
Mrs. Fraser! Mrs,
the devil are you?" he bawled.
Mrs, frightened face ap
peared at tue door. "Here, sir!” she
stummered
“Is
eat together”
Fraser!
Fraser's
supper ready? If so, we'll all
1
the mutron
‘It's waiting, sir lay another
said
“CGiood!
yon
place™
Then we'll go In
darling? Arent you
he asked. linking his
arm In girl's and advancing
face within a few inches of hers
With a sob Joan tore herself away
from him and ran upstairs at the top
of her speed
say, Joan,
glad to see me?”
the his
She was choking with
grief and shame. Hard as she
she knew her flight was an
to Lancaster to follow her.
ran,
incentive
He went
she slammed the door of her room.
his hand was on the knob outside
was just too late to turn the key,
“Joan! Joan!
She
Open the door and
** he shout
ed. “What's matter with you?
Ain't you giad I've come back? Say.
I've got & half dozen botties of the
fizzy stuff In my bag, and we three
will make a night of It.”
“Oh, won't you please leave me?”
pleaded Joan. “Try to remember how
how different you were yesterday”
“That's true!” he swore. "I'm dif.
ferent now. [I was a sanctimonious
mug yesterday. I'm In my right mind
today. It gave me the blue creeps,
being cooped up here In this God:
forsaken place. 1 tell you, Joan, now
that I've had enough good liquor to
soak that morphine out of my system
I'm feeling like a king. Say, now,
come down to supper, like a good It.
tle girl, and we'll have a great time
together. Myers doesn’t bear any [li
feeling. And we'll put him out ufter
a while and finish up the bottles our.
selves. And say"
He was advancing toward her with
his arms outstretched. Joan sprang
back to the washstand and snatched
up the haif-flled pitcher, with such an
evident determination to defend her
self with it that the man fell back
scowling.
“Joan, don't be a little jackass!"
he shouted angrily. “1 know what
you mean when you look at me like
that. You think you're above being
Jolly and sociable, Just because 1 don't
choose to stand on my dignity tonight,
Did you expect me to go about al
ways looking like a sanctified mummy,
as I did when | was IN?
“Listen, Doctor Lancaster,” panted
the girl. “I am not going to judge you
by what you are saying now. Leave
me, and tomorrow, if you are yourself,
I shall be willing to hear your explan-
ation, because I know it is not your
better self that Is speaking. leave
my room now, please, immediately!"
The man glared at her: but he was
dominated, in spite of himself, by her
courage and apparent calmness,
“Well, I'm not going to fight with
you before I've had my supper,” he
answered. “You think things over,
and In a little while I guess you'll see
them in a different light. You can't
fool me with those mock airs and
graces, dearle. I've seen them In
women before. Used to believe in
them once, too, till I found It meant
that It was golng to cost me more in
the end. You come down and act
straight, Joan—gee?”
He slammed the door vicicusly be
hind him. Joan fell upon her knges
the
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beside her bed. There, teariess, put
shaken with her grief, she poured eut
nu wild prayer for the lost soul of the
man. This was worse than anything
she could have divined. Better by far
that he had returned us on that earlier
day, drugged and possessed by the
morphine spirit than In the chains of
this devil. Better that he had died.
For Lancaster, even when the shifty,
false, lying drug flend was In control
of him, had never been vicious and
vile like this before,
And yet this was the John Lancas
ter of the Southern hospital, [It was
the traditional Lancaster in his hour
of relaxation, He treated women
shamefully, ns a gossiping nurse had
sald. Joan had never been in fear of
physical harm as she was now. She
from her knees, iooking wildly
about her. Then she heard footsteps
outside, nnd she sprang back ucross
the room.
jut it was only the matron. Mrs.
Fraser cast a scared glance at her and
ran forward, “What did to
you?" she eried.
“I am afrald of him. 1
stay here. Where shall I go?
Joan, losing all self-control.
In the midst of her terror Joan sud-
denly realized that the look upon the
matron’s face was the same as on her
first night, when they had held a brief
conversation In the same room.
For a moment Mrs. Fraser did not
answer her, The women drew togeth-
er, listening. They were having sup-
per conversing in bolsterous
tones and laughing loudly. Joan heard
her own name spoken, and 8 renewed
outburst of mirth followed,
“Mrs. Fraser,” said Joan, “the Doe.
tor Lancaster whom 1 and
honor is not in that man's body. |
am going away. | am going at once.
[ shall ask Doctor Jenkins to protect
me until tomorrow, He
man: he will do 80.”
rose
he soy
not
cried
dare
below,
respect
exclaimed the other, and, as she spoke,
Joan realized that the wind had risen
to a hurricane, and the
creaked and snapped like pistol shots
“You must stay here tonight,
with me, and I'll swear he shall
hurt youn, Look at this!”
her apron and handed it to Joan
“I've kept that ever since
time he came back lke this,
the
when he
with liquor. That
institution He frightened a sick girl
almost to death,
use it, because It
kill, but
must
vou'il the devil that's
him."
the re.
pocket
she
and excitement Joan took
volver and slipped it the
of her uniform. Oddly enough,
felt that the Lancaster of that
ning had so grossly
into
the
wus
hated him
which her
She
of
with all
heart
rage
intensity
had done Limself, the outrage on thelr
love : and under the hate the flame
of the love she had borne burned pure
and clear
It was long
hnd not lit
Dana's
stairs,
the lamp outside Mrs
near the head of
had not yet risen.
door,
The moon
hall
door
fly
The
1s
tors
Myers’ room was
Joan heard a
and the gurgle of the champagne In
glnsses, Their were raised
high. and there came the pound of a
scuffle
“Kit down!" the secretary was cry-
ing. “Do you want to be a fool and
everything? Leave her slone
until tomorrow.”
“I'm dd If | do!” eried Lancaster
“Wait a minute! Listen to me!
You agreed to come back here and put
her out. Why don't you do It now?"
Lancaster laughad coarsely. “Be.
cause she's too d--n pretty, Myers”
he answered,
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
Boy Was Right There
After Job He Wanted
He was a clean-cut, wide-awake
young chap and he wanted a job.
“f have nothing at present,” sald the
corporation manager, “but leave your
name and if anything turns up you
will be notified.”
“May 1 ask If you have made the
same promise to many others,” said
the applicant.
“Yes, quite 1 few,” was the reply.
The boy grinned and remarking that
it was no monopoly he went out.
A few days later a young man was
needed in a hurry and seven tele
grams were dispatched to seven wait.
ing applicants. Hardly bad these left
the secretary's office when in walked
Johnny on the Spot, holding his tele
gram,
“How In the world did you get it?”
gasped the executive
“Well, sir,” he answered, “the other
day as 1 was going out I stopped and
got a job as errand boy. 1 thought it
would be a good plan to be where 1
could get the news quicker than the
others.”
“You'll do!” sald the manager.
Boston Transcript.
The Humble Daisy
Children, sometimes remove the
white petals from daisies and then use
the yellow center as pumpkin ples for
thelr dolls’ tables. By clipping off
the gays to shape a cap and leaving
two long ones for strings, with a little
ink, a capped grandmother's head and
face are made, In literature the daisy
has a place second only to the rose. In
church lore the daisy is the Gower
St, Marguret
with
voices
POINTS ON
KEEPING WELL
DR. FREDERICK R. GREEN
Editor of “HEALTH”
(6). 1926, Western Newspaper Union.)
THE HEALTH VALUE OF
SWIMMING
WIMMING Is not only a delightful
recreation, it is siso of the
most valuable of health exercises, It
Ix a natural method of locomotion for
practically all animals and is as nat-
ural for primitive races as walking.
Savag: peoples learn to swim about
the same time that they learn to walk,
Civilized man hus gotten out of the
habit of swimming, so he has to learn,
The earlier in life he learns to swim,
the nearer he is the savage, and
the easier and wore natural swimming
becomes,
one
10
As a universal exercise swimming is
even better than walking, since it ex-
ercises the muscles of the legs and
trunk quite as well and develops the
irs and chest even better. For this
reason, it is free from the objections
to
certain
A few
graphs of
men
made some sports which develop
only parts or groups of mus
study of photo-
swimmers, both
I show that in no
letes Is the body so
cles moments
champion
nnd women, wi
other class of ath
kvinmetrically developed
Not swimming a splendid
meuns of muscular development; it is
equally valuable in developing the
perve control of the muscles, co-or-
nation of different groups of mus
les, self-control, presence of mind and
reif-confidence, It develops the heart
overtuxing it and so Is a
form of exercise than
such as sprinting,
racing, football or baseball,
apt be carried to ex
Swimming Is #2 safe from
dnnger of overexertion that it is
for weak persons or
par, since by it weak
may be developed without
Physicians advise swimming
persons crippled ss a result of In-
The body being sup-
only Is
much safer
land sports,
are fo
the
ften ordered
those below
muscles
innger
Or
fantile paralysis,
ported by
the water,
relieved of the fear of falling. his com-
fort Is increased, and he is able to ex-
ith a freedom not
Tanks for
infantile
most of hospitals
ercise hl: muscles =
iand
if victims of
in
the
paralysis are
for crip
Man of
our universities,
require ability
§ 3
SCHools
conditions of
iearn
to wall if
graduation very child
as naturally
a lake,
io gwim us
available
Mut
oo re
ges art
there are no natural nd
icin! tanks can » easily
If every school
house had a swimming tank as part of
er
githier boys and girls
GOITER IN COLORADO
NS SOON a4 3 mer method of treat-
A Dew
* ¢Xistence
t
inept or ang
of 8 disease is an
scientitic men all over the
rent iceanlities,
Mich.
has
of this condition every
recent issue “United
Public Health Reports” Dr
Robert Olsen, surgeon of the United
States public heaith service, presents
a report on the prevalence of goiter
in Colerado Doctor Olsen was sent
to this at the request of the
Colorado board of health to deter.
mine the extent of goiter in that state
and, if possible, to nscertain the cause,
A survey of the Denver city schools
showed tnt out of BG girls between
the ages of eight and twenty-two, 2.643,
or 27 per cent, had some kind of en-
largement of the thyroid gland. A
Red Cross survey In eight cities
showed that out of 1.762 children, or
B25 boys and 037 giris, between the
ages of nine and twenty, thyroid en-
largement was found in 62 per cent of
the hoys and 73 per cent of the girls
In Colorado Springs, 38 per cent of
the boys and 44 per cent of the girls
bad enlarged thyroids. The total re
sults for the entire state showed about
the same proportions.
As usually happens when special
attention is given to any particular
s disease, it was found that goiter was
much more common than had been
generally supposed. On account of
lack of time and money, the survey
was confined to the cities, no attempt
being made to find out how prevalent
goiter is in the country districts or
whether it is more or less common
there than in the towns
Regarding the cause of goiter, It is
now pretty generally agreed that most
of simple enlargements of the thyroid
are caused by lack of lodine, either in
the food or the drinking water. Nat
urally, the easigést way to remeds this
condition is to provide enough i.dine
for the body. lodine is found In seu
water, sea weeds, and sea foods of uli
kinds. It is lacking. both in the soil
and in the water, in localities far re
moved from the sea coast. Perhaps
this need of the human body for » cer
tain amount of jodibhe is due to the
fact that all life came originally from
the sea and we still need some of the
elements furnished by the sea to keep
us strong and bealthy.
Harsh Old English Law
Less than a century ago a child of
nine was condemned to death in Eng
tard for stealing paint to the value of
» interest in goiter in Ohlo,
Wisconsin
caused a study
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