12 WOMEN'S THE STRUGGLES OF A WIFE By Virginia Terhune Van de Water CHAPTKK XXIV . | (Copyright, 1916, Star Co.) As Horace Webb saw his wife's face In the restaurant window above him, he started violently and hesitated. Then, at a word from the girl who was with him, he stood to one side to let her pass out and followed her, the c'oor slamming behind him. "When will you have it ready?" The question was Perry Martin's and Myra was aware that he was i watching her with a perplexed ex- j pression. Evidently he had spoken j before and she had not heeded him. 1 "I—l—beg your pardon!" she ex-j claimed in confusion, her cheeks! burning as she appreciated that he had caught her off her guard. X was—l was looking at some peo ple down there"—with a nod toward the street. "It is actually all that some of them can do to walk against the wind. But I must have seemed very inattentive to what you were saying. Pray excuse me! I What did you ask me?" Her confused manner did not; escape her companion. What could have caused it? he wondered. "My question," he said gravely, | "was as to when you think you can i let us have that story?" > "Within a week or ten days," she replied. ou will not offer it to anyone else first will you?" he demanded bluntly. "Of course I won't!" she ex claimed. Did he fancy that she could be capable of such double dealing? He had behaved as if he were a gentle man and as if he understood that she belonged to his class and yet lie could ask her a question that seemed almost a reflection upon her sense of honor. And all at once she remembered I | SAVE -A - CENT i Soft Scouring Compound ! 'i X VJ I £ The mighty FOUR cent punch at dirt \ It's good FOUR all cleaning •I It's bad FOUR all dirt j! It's wonderful FOUR washing the hands It's fine FOUR housecleaning ij Does more work than powders—does not waste | Only FOUR Cents At Your Grocers « VWWAWASWWAVbVWA WJWWWt A Name For Ice Something New TN order to distinguish our highly efficient ice service from the ordinary ice man we have given our ice and our ice service the trade name of ALSPURE ICE ALSPURE ICE will be to you just what the name signifies—All Pure Ice. It is made from water that has been boiled, distilled, reboiled, skimmed and filtered. It is as pure as nature and science can make it. Our wagons cover every street in the city. United Ice & Coal Co. I'orater and Cowden St*. Also Steelton, Pa. j*j < Pretty Teeth Add to the Natural i I . Beauty of All Faces I 1 if IBIWIME ""™' "L.T HKK O" 'CM VRGE."' **" " D '"• | | I < -&m,Ef Li* 1* rk ■ h »® | »««-iy »>iaieu. ht | " en ee ana JiTJ.-i # have hud a vast amount of expert- B B °-».,, jSKfi--,-, ,: KIT .NIOF able to render the very bent af services. 3 t """ f "' M " "' " 4 " | b Ilaura, H:BU A. M. to U P. M. Cloaed on Sundaja |j^ 1 ' v Qpea MM., Wed, aad gat. Evenlnga UitH » P. M, i DR. Dentist I OTFSR HUB. Bell Phone. 1 Branch Office*! Philadelphia a»d Blading. Geraaa Spohea 3 LADY ASSISTANT. f F £ Try Telegraph Want Ads Try Telegraph Want Ads Try Telegraph Want Ads TUESDAY EVENING, [that, although this man and she had been chatting: here together at a luncheon at which she was his guest, they had met for but one pur pose—that of business. Myra Webb, the woman, was noth ing to him; Myra Webb, the writer, was worth his attention until he had made sure that she would serve his purpose. She glanced at her watch and ! rose. "It Is getting late," she re marked. "I must be going." "I thought," Perry Martin was I saying, still in a practical, business [ like way, "that you might be hesl ; tating to promise us the story until I you were quite sure about the price Iwe would pay. We will, of course, give what we gave for "Bitter Waters' if that is entirely satis factory." "We can settle that later, can't we?" she ventured. "1 do not know yet how long the story may be; you do not know whether it will suit you or not." He helped her put on her coat | and escorted her as far as the foot ;of the uptown elevated railroad | steps. Here he raised his hat and bade i her good afternoon, j Seated in the uptown train, Myra tried 1o fix her thoughts on what had happened. She strove to bring [back the thrill that she had felt when Martin had praised the plot of her story. "If you write it as you have told it" she whispered the words to herself, but the emotion they had aroused did not return. She did not even recall how the speaker had looked when he uttered them. For uppermost in her mind was the recollection of the expression of surprise in her husband's eyes as jthey met hers and the presence of I the slender figure at his side. I (To lie Continued) GASOLINE PRICE FIXING CHARGED Report That Standard Oil, Stored 70,000,000 Barrels at Low Cost SptcM to the Trie graph \ Tulsa, Oklahoma, May 2.—A thor-1 j ough Investigation to determine why I j the price of gasoline has increased from 8 cents a gallon last August to IS cents In St. Louis and *26 to 30 cents elsewhere, leads to the conclu- i i sion that it is due principally to : manipulation by Standard Oil cor-: porations. Last year when the price of crude j oil, from which gasoline is refined, was 30 to 35 cents a barrel, Standard Oil subsidiaries bought and stored in Oklahoma not less than 70,000,000 barrels. This same oil ts selling in j the market to-day at $2 to $2.15 a barrel. Standard Oil profit, allowing 10 cents a barrel for carrying costs, is not less than $1.50 a barrel, or more than $100,000,000 on the oil put in storage less than a year ago. Nearly everybody in the oil and gasoline industry here says that the high price of gasoline is due to the law of supply and demand. But, in the same breath, they say the price of crude oil in the mldcontinent field is fixed absolutely by the posted bid j of the Prairie Oil and Gas Company, la Standard Oil subsidiary. | Production of crude oil in this field in 1915 was about 107.000,000 barrels, as against 102,000,000 in 1914, and 163,000,00 in 1913. Producers expect a decrease of 3 per cent, this year as (compared with last year, unless new pools are tapped. ; Meantime, the Standard Oil Com ' pany has at least 100,000,000 barrels stored in tanks in Oklahoma. Summary of tlic Situation Following is a summary of the! situation: I A 42-galion barrel of Cushinpr crude i oil will produce, of gasoline, at least ! 10'4 gallons. ! hast year the Standard Oil bought and stored In Oklahoma 70,000,000 ! barrels of Cushlng crude oil at a cost, j with carrying charges, or a barrel, 40 ! cents each. j Cost of refining a barrel of crude 1 oil is not in excess of 25 cents. Byproducts - Kerosene, fuel oil, i lubricating oil, etc., will more than pay cost of refining. | Standard will market the 10*£ gal lons of gasoline at an average price of, per gallon, 20 cents. For the 40 cent barrel of crude oil ;it will receive from gasoline alone $2.10, its net profit being not, less than I Sl.fiO on the barrel of crude oil. Profits on its 70,000,000 barrels of ' stored crude oil, at present market j prices, $112,000,000. Standard Oil of N. Y. Doubled 1914 Profits New York, May 2.—Profits of the i Standard Oil Company of New York for 1915 were more than double those : of the preceding year. Net earnings of $15,781,663 show an increase of $8,025,744, the surplus in | creasing from $1;736,000 to $9,761,663, 1 and the total surplus from $18,701,591 to $26,463,254. IiGIIIGH SHOPMEN STRIKE I Sayre. Pa., May 2. —One hundred [ out of 300 men in the repair depart |ment of the Lehigh Valley Railroad ' shops struck yesterday for a 20 per I cent, increase in wages. The shop superintendent says an advance of 10 | per cent, had been agreed upon. " RED PIMPLES ALL ABOUT FACE, NECK And Body, Large and Hard. Skin Very Sore and Face Was Very Disfigured. HEALED BY CUTICURA SOAP AND OINTMENT "My trouble started with pimples making i their appearance all about my face, neck j and body. The pimples were large and fhard and were red aud festered, also appearing with yellow heads. They were scattered and the skin was very sore and oftentimes my face was very disfigured. "This lasted for about two months and I found my face getting worse, and I was treated and when this failed 1 gave up hope [ of being cured. 1 saw an advertisement for Cuticura Soap and Ointment so 1 tried them and now 1 have not even a mark left on my face. 1 am healed." (Signed) Charles C. Davis, 1342 S. Chad wick St., Philadelphia, Pa.. July 21, 1015. Sample Each Free by Mail With 32-p. Skin Rook on request. Ad dress post-card "Cuticura, Dept. I°, Boa ton." Sold throughout the world. HARRISBURG ttiKk TELEGRAPH Ue j Social pirates Story No. 2 The Corsican Sisters Plot by Georg* Branson Howard. Novelization by Hugh C. Weir. Copyright Kalem Company. (Continued from YMterlay.) Harrasford, however, stuck to his own opinion that fcliia affair was as ex citing a one as he ever cared to become entangled with. He was not even euro while he prepared for their Journey whether he would be disappointed or relieved if Mary failed to keep hei appointment—if she did not s,ppear at his rooms at 10 o'clock. He liked her, but he was afraid she was going to prove to be too exacting. Still, he was rather relieved when the door-ibell did ring, almost on the stroke of ten. He knew that he would always have been sorry had this ad venture stopped short of completion. He went to tne door. "Ah—ihere you are, then!" he said. And then Mona, Instead of Mary, stepped into the hall! "Ah you are here!" she oried, ana flung her arms about him. "You are mine, then—.mine forev»r! It was only an evil dream I had!" Harrasford was greatly myntifled. But he felt that he nad to mane the best of things, for he was, by this time, a little alraid of Mona. He could see, too, thalt she was greatly excited; that ehe was, indeed, almost hysterical. He was afraid of rousing har into a pas sion—and he was in deadly fear, too, that Mary mfgjht c ome at any moment. Bv this time he was Convinced that if she did almost anything might happen, and he had a very wholesome fear ol ucaivdal and newspaper notoriety. Even while he tried to soothe Mona. the door bell did ring for the second time. . . . ... _ "The other one!" he thought, with a !" cried Mona. in terror "It Is he—the man who ha-s been following me! Do not let him in—save me. "I Killed Her, I Took the Ring." "What do you mean?" cried Har« j rasford. , A „,*» i "Nothing—only do not open l —do not i oipen—if you love me Hut tihe ringing was continuous now , and whoever was outside also | pounding on the aoor. "I must hide yourself IN niy DM- ( room!" said Harrasford. . , h And, while she obeyed, he opened the door. A big, grim looking man "talked ; !n and then wheeled around to face him, flinging back his coat to show a Geti'tive s badge. h« "I'm from the Central Office! he eaid. "I want the woman you ve got hidden here!" ».«_« sa id "There's no woman here saia Han::sford. "What right have you to C °"ni h fiee for myself!" said the man. And a minute later he had draggetona. "My—but I'll be glad to look like mv old own self again!" "It was hard work—tout I think be hearing, before long, that Jimmy Harrasford has married and settled down!" laughed Mary. "I don't believe he will be looking for many axore real adventurous love affairs!" Knd of Episode No *- HOW THE trrHKRS LIVE Ka/imir Posega. Slvcllmi Court Inter preter, Tells Club About It How a large percentage of the for eign element of this city anil Steelton live and work and play and how their advantages, educationally, physically and mentally, could be increased by the application of the social center idea was interestingly discussed last evening before the Social Workers Club by Kazimir Posega. Posega is one of the influential foreigners of Sleellon and is a well-known court interpreter. Announcement was made that Pro fessor E. J. Ward, of the University of Wisconsin, will visit this city during tin latter part of next week to discuss the community center plans. Miss Ala lllda lltester reported progress on the preparation ol the social census. Brief talks were given by Miss Elizabeth Cobb, superintendent of the Visiting Nurse Association of York. Miss Cobb and Miss Jessie Lukens, assistant sec retary of the York Associated Chari ties. were guests of Miss Mary W. Mil ler, superintendent of Harrisburg's Vis iting Nurse Association. , (•RANTS SECOND INCREASE Lebanon, Pa., May 2. An Increase in wages ranging between 5 and 10 per cent., according to the class of work, was announced yesterday by the American Iron and Steel Manufacturing Company. About 4.000 employes at the plants in this city and at Reading are affected. 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If J Pills. 5 I "The Largest Sale of Any Medicine in the World" At All Druggists, 10c., 26c* Artcftoni of mtmiol value to women arm with euttrv box MAY 2. 1916. mere men's thoughts largely to hats j i and ankles. Recall? 1 During the niontli 2.64 Inches of rain j fell. The mercury at one time crawl- I ed to the seventy-five degree mark, I and down to thirty-one at another. I "SVMMKR TIM JO" EFFECTIVE •Berlin, via Bonlon, May I.—The so- l called "summer time" became effective last midnight, the clocks being ad- [ vanced an hour for the conservation of daylight. The transition occurred without any disturbance to any branch j of activity. Kven railroad schedules ' were so arranged that only a i'e\W hours' inconvenience was caused. I STAHT SOO!* ON SIDINGS AT COIJONI AIJ IXIH j No definite time has been lixed foi the construction of a Biding at the Co lonial Club station of the Harrisbura Railways Company. Superintendent Felix M. Davis said to-day: "We have i not completed the plans hut hope to I start work at an early date. As soon as the siding Is completed a new schedule for cars running between Mar risburg and the Colonial Club, on tin Linglestown branch, wilt be announced, j It is the intention to shorten the time 'and trips between these points."