V i , -' . . 7' r ' - '.. ." .K ft 1 EVENING PUBLIC LEDGER-PHILADELPHIA, SATURDAY, . JULY 5, 1919 ftrt - J-r 'WvE," FA. -& r. & f'fk V I j K' &. K2 It1' I ir V, ' 1 m M rsss kl!S . fi I '.! t?& h THE WORLD FOR SALE fCopirfaAr, 19M, bu Harper t Bn.) THIS STARTS THE STORY FIcda Druse, daughter of Gabriel Druse, shoots. In n canoe, the wild Carillon Rapids on the Sagalac river, "where It flows between the towns of Manitou and Lebanon In the Cana dian Northwest. Sho is on the verge of losing her life in the whirlpools btlow when she Is rescued by Max Ingolby, n financier,, contractor and manager of great interests, who has come to Lebanon to amalgamate the railroads, unite the two towns and make them the center of commerce in the western north. On shore she is insulted by Felix Marchnml, son of Hector Marchnml. onpltnlist of Mani tou. Ingolby attacks Mnrchand, who vows revenge. Then arrives Jcthro Fawc, who claims that he and Flcda were married when children, accord ing to the gipsy custom. Flcda re jects him nnd he is assaulted by her father. Mnrchand, who lives in Manitou, begins to stir up trouble between the two towns in order to foil Ingolby's plans. AND HERE IT CONTINUES QUDDENLY he turned at the door- way. A look of passion burned in his eyes. His voice became soft and per suasive. "I would put the past behind me, and be true to you, my girl," he i said. "I shall be chief over all the Romany people when Duke Gabriel .lips. We are sib: give me what is mine. I nm yours and I hold to my troth. Come, beloved, let us go to gether." A sigh broke from her lips, for she saw that, bad ns he was, there was n moment's truth in his words. "Go while you can," she said. "You arc nothing to me." For an instant he hesitated, then, with a muttered oath, sprang out into the bracken, and was presently lost among the trees. For a long time she sat in the door way, and again and again her eyes filled with tears. She felt a cloud of trouble closing in upon her. At last there was the sound of footsteps, and a moment later' Gabriel Druse came through the trees toward her. His eyes were sullen and brooding. "You have set him free?" he asked. She nodded. "It was maducss keep ing him here," she said. "It is madness letting him go," he answered morosely. "lie will do harm. Ay bor, he will ! I might have known women are chicken-hearted. I ought to have put him out of the way, hut I have no heart any more no heart, I have the soul of a rabbit." Tho Sultan INGOLBY'S square head jerked for ward in stern inquiry and his ejes fastened those of Jowett, the horse dealer. "Take care what you're say ing, Jowett," he said. "It's a peniten tiary job, if it can be proed. Arc you sure jou got it right?" Jewctt had unusual shrewdness, some vanity nnd a humorous tongue. He was a favorite in both .towns, and hud the better of both in horse-dealing a score of times. That did not make him less popular, However, it was said he liked low company, and it was true that though he had "money in the bank," and owned a corner lot or so, he seemed to care little what his company wns. His most constant companion was Fabian Oster haut, who was the common property of both towns, doing a little of every thing for a living, from bill-posting to the solicitation of an insurance agent. For any casual work connected with public functions Osterhaut was indis pensable, and he would serve as n doc tor's assistant and help cut oil a leg, bo the mnjordomo for u Sunday-school picnic, or arrange a soiree nt a meeting--house with equal impartiality. He had been known to attend a temperance meeting and a wake in the same even- jng. let no one even questioned ins bona fides, and if he had attended mass ' i -r i. . . .... at Manitou in the morning joined a heathen dance in Tekewanl s Reserve in the afternoon, and listened to the oleag- inous Rev. Reuben 1 ripple in the eve-1 nmg. it would have been taken as a ! matter of course. I He was at times profane and im- pecuuiousi anu ne naci ocen snilteu from one boarding-house to another till .,, uu.ius cu Limn u iiu- i.eDauou, unu iu nun me , iu ivuirv iuu there s mce, anil there s a want-to-anon, he had found a room in the house spokes out of my wheel. He's the stand-still and Ieave-me-nlono feeling ui uiu .uuuuuic j.iiiuu,icuii ill .uuuiuju. She had taken him iu because, in jears gone-by, he had nursed her only son through an attack of smallpox on the Slwash River, and somehow Osterhaut bad always paid his bills to her. He was curiously exact where she wns con- cerned. If he had not enough for his week's board and lodging, he borrowed it, chiefly of Jowett, who used him profitably at times to pass the word about a horse, or bring.nens of a pos- siblo deal. . I "It's a penitentiary job. Jowett." . Ingolby repeated. "I don't think Mar chaud would be so mad as that." "Sav. it's nil Klrniffht ,ntili Chief," answered Jowett, sucking his uullghtcd cigar. "Osterhaut got wind of it he's staying at old Mother Thi badeau's, as you know. He moves round u lot, and he put me ou to it. I took on the job nt once. I got in with the French toughs over at Manitou, nt Barbazuu's Tavern, and I gave them glu we made It a gin night. "It struck their fancy gin. all gin! 'Course there's nothing in gin different from any other spirit; but it fixed' their minds, and took away suspicion. , -i got uruuK on, yes, ot course, blind drunk, didn't I? Kissed me, halt a dozn of the Quebec boys did said I was. 'bully boy' and 'hell-fellow'; said t was 'bon enfant' ; and I said likewise iu my best patois. They liked that. I've; got a pretty good fatock of monkey French, and I let it go. They laughed till they cried at some of my mistakes, but Ihey weren't no mistakes, not ou jour life. It was all done a-purposc. rticv Knb! T vrflA tlift nnlv. mftn frnm JL, Lebanon they wouldn't have cut up and "j t;IwUed, and they was oing to have '" the blood of Uhe Lebanon lot before i.J Miey'1" dou"' 1 Pr'teouwl to Set ". , anil 4 lUfKCU Willi. A duiu ijmi ixuuuvu Vnould set' them first, that Lebanon ' ' nqijWfi't wait, but 'd have it out; and , " l,c.vmf coat and stajwed about MMHl'-BeOMV, lVt m ajfoiaat 'tBtrfifi ' TliTmrBlWiir SmmMM mmsmmm . Mm;smm mm Ilk mmBKmmis&m'M Mi iTWriTfiHTjBliHii " (T iTniii'iiMlliniliiTnT i n i ilTWIi I'lr w " ' f( i .-" At last there was the sound of footsteps and a moment later Gabriel toward her I come down on thnt bench hard. They Sarnia's wife doesn't know even now. mugncdLoril, how they laughed! I thought a lot of I.il, as much almost ihey didn t mind my giiln' cm fits ls if she'd been my own; nnd lots o' all except one or two. That was what , times, when I think of it, I sit up l expected. The one or two was mad. straight, and the thing freezes me; and ihey begun raging toward me, but I Wnnt to get Mnrchund by the scruff there I was asleep on the bench stony j0f the neck. I got n horse, the worst blind, und then they only spit tire n bit. that ever was so bad I haven't had """ " ""- nij.i-uui over me. 1 hadn t any cash in the pockets, not ...uiu 1 mien utiiw mini mm ami 1 snored like a sow. Then it happened what I thought would happen. They iuibto. .vim acre it is. Ahej re go- lot him loose on the prairie, anil pray ingto have a strike in the mills, and the Lord to save him if he thought tit. you're to get a toss into the river. I fancy I know what the Lord would Thats to be on Friday. But the other do. And Lil Snrnin's onlv one. Since thing well, they all cleared away but he come back from the states, he's the two. They were the two thnt wuuted'limit, oh, the damnedest limit. lie's to have it out with me. They stnjcd a pest all around and now this!" z:, h c "u r"n.vr,..a. "vh'pt ? "-iveiy as ' ' "''"" "" '""" "Well, they giic the thing away. One of 'cm had just come from Felix .Mnrchand nnd lie was full of it. What'wns sa.iing. but he wns also weighin-' was it? Why, the second night of the the whole situation. His mind wns gone strike your new bridge over the river fishing, figuratively speaking. He "was was 10 oo uiown up. .uaronaud wus I Rive these two toughs .$."100 each for doing it." "Blown up with what?" Ingolby asked sharply. Djnamite. "Where would they get it?" "Some left from blasting below the mills." "AH right! Go on." There wasn t much more. Old Bar- I bazon, the landlord, come in and they quit talking about it; but they snid enough to send 'em to jail for ten Jcttrs' Ingolby blinked at Jowett reflective- ly, unu ins iuuuui gave a iwist unit icui. to his face nn almost droll look. ... "What good would it do if they got ten jears-or one year, if the bridge was blown up? If they got skinned alive, and if Mafchaud wns handed over to a barnful of hungry rats to be gnawed to death, it wouldn t help. I ve heard and scon a lot of hellish things, , . . . .., . "., but there's nothing to equal that, 'ioafe,,. There's a whole lot of toughs in blow up the bridge for what? To spite Jltnitou. Then there's religion and uregS, IS .11U1I.I1.11IU. "I guess hes a shjstor by nature, that fellow," interposed Jowett. "He 'was boilin' hot when he was fifteen. He spoiled a girl I knew when he wns twenty -two, not fourteen she was Lil Sarnia ; and he got her away before well, lie got her away Fast; and she's fu u dive in AVinnlpeg now. As nice a girl as nice a little girl she was, and could ride any broncho that ever bucked. What she saw in him but there, she was only a child, just the n"ntl ot n c'" B'le Ilat and didn't understand. He'd ha' been tarred and feathered if it 'd been known. But old Mick Sarnia said hush, for his 'fc's sake, and so we hushed, and DOROTHY DARNITIt , . -. . i-opyrmm, iuiu, y mo iieii syndicate, inc. 1 ir . tte -n rmrii n Mil-, -foixii j lmLIZ ",zii-j-X''niBr"" T " ; ni FROM CHURCH GOOD GlRU?C GEE'. BUTTHERE PEOPLE J IT WAS THE I iaHAT WAS K JL( ,,..., -rue runriru )T)C I J-T a. Rir. r.i?niir rvin-r rap S Ri&GFT CROVD THERE? A Y f NAW, I Ht CHUK-H lTSAr V 'fcj V THERE GETTING " THAT WAS EVER FAIR? J" WA S OM FRE P$ I .Hi i-x -Li' ' ' 1GOOD , ! AT THAT CHURCH K) " SlMm M Mm, -cm Sk Ml WtMk T11 mi HrJi ( M 1I11HI B'lisJrl jilfeM w 'ML uifl iii 3&H Vosfr, it! 01 mi i Br.fr i! -w -V -Bo ,v-r yw,.i' Hr m&iiw-'MhfK t 7 ' -7 S rlfJlht V -V ) c '-- r- v ) y -- v D)3f J""!W lltln-lilllni rrff'jJ IH I w 1 I 111 vQ JlllrniTir- 3 W Ml W-JfrAf xVpj b-'IhII-IIi VjitKS'p--. . - WiBJIbHk )& ) v- "flH-K 1 WML YJ cbVTBPBi' l illlA f L VX'iT ..v AifirSSiju.;j'ri " iKftM&ST. -- Jx, .. . -, ,W ' 'owr vr-71UJ . ')NJft .A " ' (.- f'-iw'----MPrr. . I v,-'j.- ' . . I. i. .-, '.. ,... ISi. .fr-,7.T-- A ttrM.. " ,W & ' f E-- w: . i T "., K ' ' ' ;i -0WT-5fl the Heart to ride him or sell him. lie's so bad he makes me laugh. There's nothing lie won't do, from biting to bolting. Well, I'd like to tie Mr. Felix Mnrchand. Ksquim, to his hnck, nnd .lowett talked. He was doing two things nt once with n fncilin- nnlii. 1,; own. Ho w.n uiuinritnmiiuinii t essentially a man of net on. lint his tion was the bullet of his mind; 'he had to be quiet plusienlly when ho wns 'really thinking. Then ho wns ns i In dream where nil physical motion was mechanical, and his body wns acting automatically. His concentration, and therefore his abstraction, wns nhennm. enal. .Towetfs reminiscences nt a time so rPi,ipl ,n,i , ,h,.k ,,i ,:., imieod, seem to be irrelevant. It wns s thmnrh Vnlir rrM,n,wi ,.. i.t. ,,as, iu rcvipw Iloforp him ,.. . i of nsnects. He nodded otipniip.ni-nrtiont n .Tn,Vntf t ,-r. ,,,., . .,., , , . . " s -p, hL?, 1 , , !U' cniPi. Inc bump lie cot theii aoii dropped him on the ground that day nt Carillon hurts still. It's a chronic inflammation. Closing them railway officc8 nt Manitou, and dislodging the officials, give him his first good chance ti, f,i btwn n, ,,,. : '. . .. ...t,.s.u u min i- i I10W tjinn jts cver h(,cn jIak e no mis- 'Ihey don't want to get on. They don't want progress. They want to throw tho slops out of tho top windows into the street; they want their cesspools nt the front door; they think thnt everybody's got to hnve smallpox some time or another, nnd the sooner they have it the better; they want to be bribed; nnd they think that if a vote's worth having it's worth paying for and yet there's a bridge between these two towns: A bridge why, they're ns far apart as the Yukon and Patagonia " "What'd buy Felix Marchnnd?" In golby aBkcd meditatively. "What's his price?" Jowett shifted withh impatience. "Say, chief, I don't know what you're Would Have Been a Good I., I iil ' , . 1 S iJ - '.. r"".r ' ;' i.."imiatL By SIR GILBERT PARKER Author of "Tho Seats of the Mighty," "The Money Master," et. Druse came through the trees J thinking about. Do you think you could ' make 11 deal with Felix Mnrchand '' Not much. You've got the cinch m him. You could send him to quod and I'd send him there ns quick as lightning. I'd hnng him. if I could for 'what he done to Lil Karnin. Years ago when he' was n bnv he offeied me a gold watch for n mnre I had The watch looked as right ns could be solid fourteen-earat, he said it was 'He got my horse, nnd I got his watch, It wasn't any more gold than he was It wus filled just nlated with ninr. carat gold. It was worth about .?10." "What was the mare worth?" asked Ingolby, his mouth twisting again with quizzical meaning. "Thnt mnre she wns all right." "Yes, but what was the matter with her?" 'Oh. a, spavin she was nil right when she got wound up go like Dexter : or Maud S." "Hut 'if jou were bujing her what """Id you have pnid for her, Jowett? (',)mp' now mml t0 m", us they say. How much did you pay for her? "About what she was north, chief, within a dollar or two." "And what was she worth?" "What I paid for her $10." Then the two men looked nt each other full in the ejes, and Jowett threw back his head and laughed outright laughed loud and hard. Well, you got me, chief, right under the guard," hu observed. Ingolby did not laugh outright, but there wns a bubble of humor in his eyes. "What happened to the watch?" he asked. "I got rid of it." "In a horse trade?" "No, I got a town lot with it." "In Lebanon?" "Well, sort of in Lebanon's back yard." "What's the lot worth now?" "About two thousand dollars!" "Was it your first town lot?" "The first lot of Mother Earth I ever owned." "Then you got a vote on it?" les, my first vote. "And the vote let you be a town councillor?" "It and my good looks." "In'dlrectly, therefore, you are a land owner, n citizen, a public servant and nu instrument of progress because of Felix Marchnnd. If jou hadn't hnu the watch you wouldn't have had that town lot." "Well-Jnebbe, not that lot." Suddenly Ingolby got to his feet and squnred himself, and his face became alight with purpose. His mind had come back from fishing, and he was ready now for action. His plans were formed. He was in for n fight, and he had mnde up his mind, how, with the new information to his hand, he would develop his campaign further. (TO BE CONTINUED) Time to Pass the Plate! . .1-1., .'. ji.t ' vr " ' ' fr , 1 v '.. i1 ' . ' Wmmn DAILY NOVELETTE THE LASHING liy Ada M. Felt climbed the stairs lead- ug to the npnrtmcnt ot tier daughter and rang the bell. The door was opened to her by a comely young woman with eyes reddened by weep ing. "Well, Maggie," said her mother, "what is the matter?" Is it sick ye are? Your Sndic has come to inc three mornings this week to be washed nnd have her lmlr combed before she went to school. She said you didn't get up for breakfast any more. Ain't ye well?" Instead of repljing her daughter thrust a crumpled piece of paper into her hand. "Head that!" she exclaimed tragically. "That is the way my hus band talks to me or writes," tears running fioiu her eyes. Mrs. D smoothed the' paper and read the short note; then cleared a chair of nu accumulation of news papers, midarned stockings and a child's night diess and seated herself. "Joe says hero that he is not much of n cook and less of a housekeeper. Hadie told me thnt there wasn't hardly any thing for hrenkfUht, and that her father didn't have any food to enrry for his dinner. Can't jou find time to cook for your family? Sndic said that Joe had to buy their supper InRt night, an' he wrjtes here that he luis hail to cook ii ima ni me nine mi- inu pnsi two weeks. Is thnt the wny you mnkc home pleasant for a man who's just back finm them camps in France?" "He sajs tiicic." declared Maggie, "that hisv daughter is the same ns n hnlf-orplian, and thnt he is planning to put her in nn asylum. Do you think thnt is the right wny for n man to tnlk to his wife"' "That's the way if it's needed. Yer little girl's racing the streets after school; nobody nt home till her fiithcr ramx, f,-,,m i,fe .ri,-,. , .1...1. house, .-, no supper. If ye've no love fer jer husband I sh'd think je'd take!"", "", '" """ ---i'"" some care of jnur daughter; when shci gets used ter the streets sho won't be contented nt home. Where do ye keep yourself?" "Last week I was out getting dona tion's for, the Federated Sisters and this week I've been helping 'tend a table at their fair." "Yes," interrupted her mother. "Yer brother was down ter that fair yester day. He snid thnt from ." o'clock to 7 which is when ho was there you was danirin' with all tho soldiers mi'' officers. An' yer own-soldier nt homo trjin' to cook ins own supper:" Mrs. D e,es unshed scorn. "I just rnnt to nsk ye: How does yer Joe behave? Does ho work every day nt his job? Does ho bring nil his money home? Does lm ui.v in mo iiouse evenings? Does he treat o with kindness?" She waited for a reply. "Yes. he works; nnd ho stas homo nights studying, and ho brings home his money, of course" "There's no 'of course' about it at all," tho other interjected. ".Many a man does not." "But do you think it is kind to tell me thnt he'll put Sndio in nn nt-nhnn ns.lum. nnd go to his father's to stny. ii no noes not enre to live here ulone?" "My girl, jo have a good husband. I'll ask ye do you work nt lour job faithfully? Yc do not. Ye've been off an' out o' the house lenvin' jer work undone, nn gettiu' no cookin' ready for jer meals. Do you think nnuy man would like to sit down in a room thnt looks like this? AVhat do jou be doin' with the dustpan on the parlor table? With dirt an' disorder everywhere, nn' his wife gone, what man will long be' content to be studyin' how to get mil in the world, nn' mnko more money for! his fnmilj ?" She paused to observe her ' daughter's abashed look as her oies1 slnnced quickly ocr the unsightly "" (iI. i . num." mm tunrti iui uuig-inr ituw, It ma, be necessary for women terlwhile tIlc fourth was made up of soup, work hard at fairs an such to raise , Im.nt hvo vegetables and coffee, money for all these onuses thnt need for heventy-five cents, it nowadays. I don t say it s not, but! iu addition to that two or three spe a girl like jou ought not be so selfish j oiaI desserts were to be offered ns ex as to do it a I, ucglectin' jer own hus- trns. The two ladies seemed quite band nn children, le ought ter-nllow r,in,i -ii, tl, nlnns. nml. T think. some one else ter have the chance ter work for charity. You can help, but don t je do so much that je can't be .. ..- fc , ,., t ,-j -"luiKing oi ue.sseri, .iiiss r.min in here when jour Sadie comes home from terposed, "'will jou gentlemen try my school, an jer imstinnd ter his supper. I As Joe inserted his latchkey into the lock that night the door Hew open, audi his pretty joung wife grasped botli hisl hands, drawing him into the imniacu-1 lately clean room. Dropping his bauds, she unfnstened her waist, turning her back toward him. "Quick ! Quick ! i Look down my back nud see if jou see any mnrKs : Joe peered down the white column of her neck to the soft curves of her shoulders. "Marks?" he questioned, puzzled. "Yes. Do you see any marks of a lash?" He looked again; then she whisked arotyid and threw her arms about his neck, burying her laughing face in his shoulders. "Mother came over this morninft and gave me a mighty tongue-lashing." She draw down his head and kissed him. "Ic been very neglectful and unkind, Joe, but I'm not going to be any more. Come out to supper." The next complete novelette Mother Forgot." -"When ss -- rf-ar "t-a-u - h fJ. ?r-iL . rr- ' .: '- . '?MjSJL.- " v-''ife--Mf'!va DREAMLAND AD VENTURES-By Daddy "THE JEALOUS ELEPltANT" (Judge Old, groicn in to the hlg- gest bird in ihc teor'rf, ;oihj a cir cmj. Major, n Jealous elephant, tcads tcvotl against him, hut Juilg&Oicl appoints the other elephants police 'men ami sets about arresting Major.) A N'cw V.ny of Spanking i XrHEX nn elephant turns a somcr- ' i sank and lands on his hnck it nat urally jnrs him a lot. So It wasn't strange that Major 1111,1 a bit dizzy as he struggled to his feet. In spite of this he henrd Judge Owl order the cle phnnt policemen to nrrest him. "I'r-ur-ur-iimph ! I'm lord of the menngerie," he trumpeted. "I'm the strongest nnimnl In the world. I'll prove it by running amuck nnd emashing up this whole circus." "Oh, thnt will be nwful!" gasped Peggy. "Think of all the women nnd children he may slay." Hut she didn't need to worry, for Judge Owl ngnin proved that he was n wise bird, lie hopped close to thV elephant policemen and gave them an nrrlfr til n clinrt'Unf- wMnnnr 4rin..nn .... ... .. ............- .. ....t... . uullllb- up nrnmm the old rascal," ho said.' "ou don't need to fight him nor hurt him. Just croud in bo close that he cannot stir." Major couldn't hear what Judge Owl snid nnd so he wns very curious when the elephant policemen began to dance. They circled nroiind him nnd drew closer and closer, but it wasn't until he found uim-eit caught light in 11 sudden jam i thnt he knew he had been tricked. Then he was mini all over, but he couldn't uutigc an men. "lloo, lino! Too, too! I'm ruler of 'this menagerie, nnd I sentence Major, the elephant, to be spnnked for dis turbing the peace," snid Judge Owl. At that I'eggnnd Billy couldn't help laughing out loud, while even the ani mals grinned. The idea of spanking an elephant ! It seemed very foolish. But Judge Hwl knew what he was about, lie ordered the elephant police men to crowd up close to Major nt either ! side a ml in front, but not in the bnck A,'(' M,"Jr, .WT,,S "JUC,h l0"B?r ".",'' hnck stuck out quite a little behind the other-r. "I'r-ur-ur-umph ! I'm the biggest of all elephants. There isn't anything on earth can spank me!" boasted Major. "We will see," chuckled Judge Owl. He called two of the elephants and. Billy and Foggy to one side of the tent where stood a large circus parade wagon. Theie he whispered Uis plnn, chuckling loudly. Hi.' I'eggy and Billy chuckled when they heaiJ it, and so did the ele phants. Acting on the plan t two elephants put their heads against the front of the w-ngoii and pushed it bnckwn, --oss tho tent. Billy nnd Peggy steered it ! j menus f l1"-' lonK wngon polo to which i tho horses were hitched in the parade. Judge Owl, clutching the roof, pulled with nil his might. "Hoo, hoo! Tpo, too! Everybody sing!" hooted Judge Owl. "L'r-iir-iir-umph!" trumpeted the elephants. "Ow-ow-ow!" howled the beasts in their cages. The singing made so much noise the rnttlo of tho circus wagon couldn't be heard. Thus Major didn't have the least BRUNO DUKE, Solver of Business Problems By HAROLD WHITEHEAD, Author of "The Business Career of Peter Flint," etc. k (Copyrliht) THE PROBLEM OF THE NEW RESTAURANT Mouth-Watering Advertisements AFTER much talking nnd planning, it wns finally ngroed to offer four special lunches nnd six special dinners. two vegetables' and coffee, to sell foiM Oue lunch was to consist of soup, hsh, llflv .i.tntu Annliinr iinK to consist of so or jisii nnd meat, with two vege- ...K1 1 ,.- 1. !.!. fi.A niiita were much heartened by hnviug Duke, Betterly and me to help them. ...... 1 1 ,, X,,.... Tl , "pet?" She smiled and showed those two deep, attractive dimples of hers, "I don't know what it is, but yes, please," Betterly said heartily. Off she hustled and returned with three ice creams, whereat Miss Howarth snid: "Every day she insists on making her macaroon Ice cream she thinks there's nothing like it!"' "Well,-jealous," Miss Elam laughed. "It goes every daj' every bit of it." That ice cream was wonderful. "Best ice cream this side of heaven," was Betterly's comment. ,It was rich, creamy and well mixed . with grated mncaroon. On the top of ft was placed small pieces of macaroon and over the lot n little whipped cream. It looked as delicious as it was. ' "I must tell you," Miss Howarth snid, giving u funny little smile to Miss Elain, "that that Ice cream is not our only specinlty. I have oue!" "Yes, please," broke in the irrepres sible Betterly. "Yes, please, what?" Miss Howarth quizzed. r. . l. n. . .. .. .. ppi 'Hoo, liool Hurrah, hurrah! I'm a freak no longer!" idea of what was coming until wham, blnm, bang! tho. broad end of the circus wagon cashed Into him.' "Uumpli! Oof! Ouch" trumpeted Major. Back came the circus wagon, and then wham, blam, hang, it walloped the big ele- " ......, phaut a second time. Then a third time, and a fourth, and a fifth. All the while Mnjor kept trumpeting: "L'mph! Ouch ! Oh quit ! Please don't spank me any more. I'll be good! I'll be good!" He was just like a bad boy gcttiug a sound paddling. Finally when Mnjor got the sixth big spank oue that cnused him to grunt and wail Judge Owl hooted loudly: "Who Is the ruler of this menngerie?" And Major trumpeted at the tbp of his voice : "You arc, most noble Lord Ow I ! Stop your spanking! I've had cjiough!" A Lemonade Bath tCTQV, yow, yow!" laughed the JL beasts of the menagerie when Major, the elephant, begged Judge Owl to stop spanking him. "I guess you've learned that it ducsn't pny to be jealous," hooted Judge Owl to Major. "Yes," trumpeted Mnjor. "I'll be a better elephant after this." "Well, then, as you're going to be n better elephant, you can still be lord of the menagerie," hooted Judge Owl generously. ""I make you lord chief policeman, with nil the other elephants as your helpers. "Hail, lord chief policeman," trum "peted the elephants. "Hail, lord chief policeman," howled the animals all except the tiger, who was still angry nt the duck ing Judge Owl had given him. "Cownrd, you arc afraid of the owl," snarled the Royal Bengal. Judge Owl's quick car heard the taunt. "Lord chief policeman, thnt tiger needs another bath," he hooted. "Wrtnh us give it to him," trumpeted Major, leu.;; - the elephants to the tank of the hlppopo.- -'is. There they filled their trunks with wou. Before the tiger knew wlint they were up to, they were squirting tho water into his fnee like firemen at a fire. As wa3 said before, the tiger didn't like water ex cept to drink nnd this queer shower bath made him squirm and snarl and beg for mercy. "Hoo, hoo,! Too, too! Now we can all take qnothcr snooze," hooted "I don't know, but whatever it is, yes, please." "Excuse him, Miss Howarth," Duke said gravely, "he's not used to good food and it's gone to his head." "Not my head," Betterly said. "My specialty,!' began Miss How arth hurriedly, "is apple pie-English "i'i"- i'v. Miss Elnm had left us unnoticed and now returned with three pieces of the famous pic. "I never saw pic like this before," I said, then I ate some. "I never tasted any as good as this, either!" It was apple pie baked in a very deep dish, without any bottom crust, but a top crust only. That top crust was of shortened pnstpy and very rich. The npples were cooked (or baked or what ever is done with them) to perfection, and had a wonderful flavor new to me. "What is there in this pie that gives it such an unusual flavor?" "Ah, that's telling," Miss Howarth smiled, "but I'll let you into the secret. There arc a few cloves and a dash of sherry wine in it which gives it that flavor." Betterly took out his note book and began to write rapidljl EVcry now and then he pnused and ate some more pie. We all watched him, amused, until at last he said : "I suggest an advertisement like this : TWO WONDERFUL DESSERTS . LAFAYETTE ICE CREAM " 'A smooth, "velvety cream, rich with real cream and flavored with fresh nutty macaroons covered with foaming white whipped cream. This superlative of ice creams served liberally amid the dainti ness of "The Golden Hour." Twenty five cents. 'GOLDEN HOUR APPLE PIE " 'Apples baked in a generous dish By Chas. Mclftanus Judge Owl as the menngerie quieted down again. "You;il not lmvo time," said Billy. "The crowd for the evening show will i Loon begin to come." , "I'm tired of crowds," nuswprcd tho Judge. "I long for the quiet wood3. I want to go hunting for field mice. I'm hungry again." , "You can't go bnck to the quiet woods ', now thnt you're the biggest bird in the 'world.," declared I'eggy. "And it wouldn't do you any good to hunt for field mico. for von'il novor find otiniiffhl to fill you up. Y have such a big appetite you'll have to stay circus freak to get onough to cat." I in tired of being n circus freak. I don't like being hc biggest bird in the world. This stuffy tent makes mo ill. I'm homesick for Birdlandl" And Judge Owl looked very woebegone, in- ' deed. "I'm thirsty, too." he added. as his eyes chanced to rest upon . nnrrci ot ice cold lemonade at the menngerie Tcfreshmcnt stand. Hopping over to tlfc barrel ho plunged in his beak. t The elephants, like good policemen, were setting the tent In order, picking up pen tints nnd eating them and putting the spanking wngon back into place. It happened that the spnnking wngon hit a hummock ns two elephants were pushing it along. The hummock steered it toward Judge Owl, just ds ho bent liver the lnmnnnrlo lltinm! the wagon snfnshed int Judge Owl Splnsh ! Judge OwT,s head was driven.; deep Into the lemonnde and he wa knocked in n somersault clear over the barrel and into a stack of ice cream tubs and cans. The lemonade spilled all over him, the covers were knocked, off the ice cream cans and the ice cream flew about like a summer snowstorm. Then there was nu amazing mixup of cold lemonade, chopped ice, frozen cream and Judge Owl. And the more the Judge floundered nnd kicked the worse lie got messed up in the frigid mixture. hX "Hoo, hoo! Too, too! Get me out of this, I'm freezing,'" he hooted. But' Peggy and Billy couldn't get him out, he was in too much of a tangle. Then an astonishing thing happened. Judge Owl began to shrink. Just -as tho hothouse had "made him grow big, the cold lemonade and the frozen ice cream made him grow small. And he shrank just as fast ns he had swollen in the first place. In two minutes he was back to his own size. "Hoo, hoo! Hurrah, hurrah! I'm a freak no longer ! Now I can go home to my 'own dear woods," hooted Judge Owl, and uway he flew as fast as -ho could. "Here, here! .Who hag been wreck ing -my ice cream stand?" yelled an angry voice nnd a circus man came rushing nt Peggy and Billy. Turning they fled out of the tent, through the streets, and at last, blinkcty-blink, there was Peggy back in her hammock safci&nd sound. "My, I know Judge Owl is glad to get home," she sighed. She knew be cause she was glad herself. In the next installment trill he told tho story of the mysterious lirdman, ' his beautiful song and his search for a lovely daughter.) . and crowned king of pies, with a lus cious crust made of shortening. That's not nil a piquant spicing nnd flavor ing gives to this wonderful apple pl a delight peculiarly its own. A healthy, grown-up portion, twenty-five cents.' ' "I never knew ;ny ice crenm was at good ns that," said Miss Elam, 'de lighted, while Miss Howarth added: "I really could eat some of my apple pic after hearing that, but we only charge fifteen cents." "A'ou only used to charge fifteen cents. It is twenty-five cents from now " ou," Duke said. "Now we'll run that ad tomorrow and also have little cards printed for distribution." "I think it's wonderful how Mr. Bet terly describes things," Miss Elam said, with a glance of admiration at Betterly, who blushed modestly, as he always does when praised. "That's nothing." Duke grinned: "He once advertised n house for a man who was disgusted with it. When he reail Betterly's description of it he so fell in love with Ills own house thnt he refused to sell it after all, and still lives happily and proudly in it." TODAY'S BUSINESS QUESTION What is "Good Will"? Aiuicer tcill appear Monday. ANSWER TO THURSDAY'S , BUSINESS QUESTION A "Forced Salo" is the salt of commodities under compulsion of foreclosure. Modern Treatment "The medical Ignorance of some peo ple is staggering," snid Dr. Simon FJex- iim- uv u uinner. "i Know nn X-ray J oi,iiiuii, who got a letter irom a middle western farmer the other day. The farmer wrote : . v ' 'Dear Sir I have 1in,l n nnll In m 'I thorax for seventeen years. I am too busy to come to New York, but want you to come down here to Paris Corners with your rays, as my case will be worth your while. If you do nbt fiuij time to come send down a ilnzon run boxed, by express, with Instruction card, and I will try to work same myself.' "The X-ray specialist wrote back to the farmer of Paris Corners: " 'Dear Friend I regret to say that business engagements prevent a trip to Paris Corners, and 1 nm unfortunately out of rays Just now. If von mnnn- come to New York, send me your thorax M uy Piircei post, nun we will' tee what can be doue.' 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