OF INTEREST TO THE WOMEN THE STRUGGLES OF A WIFE By Virginia Terhune Van de Water CHAPTER XXXI Copyright, 1916, Star Company Myra Webb said nothing to Horace About Perry Martin-s acceptance of her story, nor of the advance in price that he had suggested. She felt like • maintaining a complete silence with ■'regard to her work since the illumi nating conversation between her hus band and herself. She was painfully conscious of his lack of sympathy in her literary efforts, of his tolerance of them instead of his approval. That her silence was a mistake she soon perceived. For one morning at the breakfast table Grace remarked casually that now that one story had been sold for such a good sum, she supposed her mother would soon un dertake to write another. Horace glanced across the table at his wife. "You have sold another story?" ho asked quickly. "Yes." she replied, "I have» —to the Imperial Magazine—for $25 more than for the first one they bought." Grace looked from her father to her mother, her face expressive of uneasi ness. "Have T made a bad break?" she asked. "I took it for granted that there were no secrets between you two. I'm sorry, mother, if I have mentioned that about which I should have kept quiet." "Nonsense!" her mother tried to laugh, but no smile lighted Horace's somber countenance. After Grace had left the table to get ready for school, the husband spoke gravely. "I am sorry, Myra," he remarked, "that Grace should have told that which you did not wish me to know. ; I suppose the child took it for grant ed, as she suggested, tiiat there were no secrets between you and me." Myra Has \o SWTOIS "I have no secrets from you, Hor ace," Myra protested. "I simply did not talk about my work for the same reason that makes you keep silent with regards to yours." "The cases are entirely different," Horace informed her. This, mused his wife, was his one unanswerable argument. Yet what reply could she make to it? She would not humble her pride to ex plain to him that his attitude toward her writing wounded her. No, she could not change his way of thinking —so why try? Instead she would talk of something else. "Grace was saying last night." she began, "that you and 1 ought to in vite some of our friends here to our home. Perhaps were we to have guests, we would be better for it." "That must be as you think best," the husband said. "I leave all such matters to you and Grace. Such :tf fairs are entirely outside my prov ince." So the next dinner was planned without his co-operation. Several of his business- associates and their wives were invited. A man was engaged from a certain agency to help Lizzie wait on the table. The napery, glass, i liina and silver were perfect in their way. The food was excellent: the service good. The talk was spontan eous and bright. Hack of all these preparations were the brains and executive ability of Horace Webb's wife. Vet. as she talked and drew out what was hest her guests, she looked the unper- Vtoirhed woman of the world. Her husband seconded her conver sational efforts, for he, too, was an i ■lllllliag—iga Save Your Chicks ■■■ jgis.Dr. HESS POULTRY A dW. PAN-A-CE-A ' • ,j Will Help Them Over The Danger Period During the first sli week;* Is when your g~ la threat r! ■ >\ *ned with le* weakness. lndijrpstlon.dlarrhoeaand *apes. A I 'ia re - you to make thit test! Feed one hitrh Dr. Rem r - .Ww \ . | pvuifry Pan act a regular yat directed—the other no>. I Il} * ,J loe *ks if the l*nn-a<eci ehirkt are. not larger pC, —-T ; \ -* M healthier—better feathered; if yu don't uit'i you had fed j Pan-a-ce-a to Kourwho'c fl rk. no right bark to pig dealer r •. Jf and net tyotirri' nev.— Dr. Hew. Only requires one cent's fTZjM w»»rtli for thirty chicks each day. IS lbs.. C6c; 5 Iba.. GOc; nftaßgwjr 121b5..51.25; 261b. rati.r.'.so. Dr * Hc * ,# Instan( Louse Killer S WIU ke * p vour brood from Hce. 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B. MONTGOMERY «00—either phone R r( l and Chestnut Streeta | SATURDAY EVENING, I admirable talker. And to-night he j was at his best. So much did Horace Webb enjoy this return to their former ways of j J entertaining that, when he and his wife were again alone, he proposed ; that it would be well If they "did this l 1 kind of thing often." His mind felt clearer, he acknowl- , edged, for this evening away from business thoughts and cares and he had really enjoyed the exchange of ideas with their friends. Now that , Myra was making a little more money j why should she not get some pleasure . out of it by repeating the success of j to-night ? "It will do you good, you know," j he added. She did not remind him that such j affairs required much thought on her part, time taken from her desk, yet that it must be at that desk that she must make money for entertaining. "After this, scarcely a week passed in which the Webbs did not have com pany. The more they entertained, the harder Myra must work. But she did not intimate this to her husband or child. Tlioy Go Out Motv , And as friends came to their home, so the Webbs were invited to the homes of these friends. It would not do to decline the pleasant invita- j tions that arrived so frequently. Nor ; would it be proper to go to any func- , lions without the costumes appropri ate for such occasions. To be sure, Horace gave little thought to this mat ter, for he did not discuss his ward ! robe with his wife. She was glad, however, to notice | that he was better dressed than he had been for the first few months aft er his failure in business. FYom this • fact she argued to herself that he must be making a little more money, she had imagined. If so. he said nothing to her of the improvement in his business. Per-1 , haps, she reflected, he would not do' so before this improvement made it possible for him to increase the house keeping allowance. Until then she must work on steadily to help him keep the position to which he had climbed on that tigurative ladder he j and she had spoken of months ago. Her first story appeared in the May Imperial Magazine and was much talked about. Editors of other periodicals wrote to her asking her to submit something to them. Two weeks after the appearance of "Bitter Waters" Horace broke his silence with regard to her literary efforts. "I saw Dakin on the subway to j day," he remarked. "He had with him a friend whom I had not met be fore. He introduced him to me, add ing that I was the husband of Myra Webb—whose story In the current Im- j perial he had undoubtedly read. The stranger greeted me cordially and con gratulated me on your success. He spoke of the story as 'strong.' 'mas terly.' By the way, I read it a few : evenings ago myself. It is interest ' ing." "Oh, Horace!" She caught her 1 breath with pleasure. "You like it?" she asked eagerly. "Yes," he acknowledged. "I liked 1 it. But he hesitated. "But what ?" she demanded. "What ; art! yon thinking of?" "Only," he said slowly, "that it ; makes a man feel a bit queer to be introduced as the husband of his wife instead of on His own merits.'' I (To Be Continued.) USE EMBROIDERY FOR THIS FROCK Nothing Prettier For Summer Than Bandings Combined With Sheer Materials Design by May M ant on. R842 1 With Basting Line and Added .Seam Allowance) One-Piecc Dress for Misses and Small Women, 16 and 10 years. THIRD \\|> FOURTH CI.ASS POSTMASTERS AT SVNRL KY The ninth annual convention of the Pennsylvania branch of the National League of Third and Fourth <Tass Postmasters will be held at Sunbury, August 15-17. By the union of the third and fourth ' lass postmasters the membership of the league has been greatly increased. The draft of the proposed legislation concerning these branches of the serv ice as well as other very Important matters will be thoroughly discussed and put before the convention for con sideration. Arrangements are being made 1o have several prominent gov ernment officials as well as members of Congress and other able speakers present to address the assemblage. Mrs. McLean, Former D. A. R. President, Dies in Hospital Special to the Telegraph Baltimore, May 20.—Mrs. Emily Nel son Ritchie McLean, wife of Donald of New York, and past presi dent general of the Daughters of the American Revolution, died at a hospital here late yesterday. She was born In Frederick, Md., fifty-seven years ago, and came of distinguished ancestry. Burial will be in Frederick next Mon day. Mrs. McLean was brought to the hos pital on April 14 from Norfolk, Va., where she had been visiting; her broth in-law, Hear Admiral McLean, com mandant of the Norfolk Navy Yard. Besides being a charter member of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution. Mrs. Mc- Lean was a member of the Colonial Dames of America and a number of other organizations. During her presi dency general, from 1905 to 1900, she brought to virtual conclusion the build ing of Continental Hall at Washing ton. BUSINESS CHANGES HAM) Special to the Telegraph Machanlesburg, Pa., May 20.—The un dertaking and furniture business of the S. K. Rentzel estate has been pur chased by Kdnor CJ. Luti, of Mechanics burg, who has been connected with the bus'lness for some time past. Mr. Lutz is a graduate of Eckels College, of Embalming, with a number of years" experience and will take immediate pos session, HI CSUSE OF LIE BACK UNO KIDNEY TROUBLE Take a glass of Salts to flush Kid neys if your back is aching. Noted authority says Uric Acid from meat irritates the Bladder. Meat forms uric acid, which excites i and overworks the kidneys in their | efforts to Alter it from the system, j Regular eaters of meat must flush the ' kidneys occasionally. You must relieve 1 them like you relieve your bowels, re i moving all the acids, waste and poison, | else you feel a dull misery in the kid- I ney region, sharp pains in the back or sick headache, dizziness, your stom ' nch sours, tongue Is coated and when ! the weather is bad you have rheu i matic twinges. The urine is cloudy, .full of sediment- the channels often ' get irritated, obliging you to get up two or three times during the night. To neutralize these irritating acids 1 and flush off the body's urinous waste ! get about four ounces of Jad Salts I from any pharmacy; take a table- I spoonful in a glass of water before breakfast for a few days and your kid neys will then act line and bladder dis orders disappear. This famous salts is f made from the acid of grapes and len.on Juice, combined with lithia, and has been used for generations to clean rind stimulate !-!uggish kidneys and j stop bladder irritation. .lad Salts Is inexpensive; harmless ami makes a delightful effervescent lithia-water drink which millions of men and | women take now and then, thus avoid j ing serious kidney and bladder dis eases. —Ailv. HARRISBUFIG tfijft) TELEGRAPH pouLtßysneves Profit in the Tractable Goose and Her Offspring It is rare that any fancier seeks to originate a new variety of ducks. Breeders are generally satisfied to con tinue with one of the old-fashioned va rieties that have been selected to meet the requirements of their particular market. A decade ago the late William Cook famed as the originator of all the Or pington fowls, spent much time in perfecting a new utility duck, one that would compare favorably with the Pekin as a layer, and with the Ayles bury for weight. In the course of his work he not only produced Buff ducks, but a Blue variety, and both are now largely bred. Mr. Cook attached the name "Orpington" to these ducks, after the name of his country place in England. Breeders are very enthusiastic over their heavy-laving qualities and their Leading Features in the Breeding of Geese For Feathers and Meat Ease in Rearing Goslings, Their Quick Growth and Their Freedom From Di sease By M. I'. longfleld Author and Practical Poultryman. j The F.inden is the general utility brood. Ganders arc good husbands and protective fathers... Laying he gins In February. Hatching claims the gravest importance. Goslings are thrifty and not menaced by disease. Food needs are simple—plenty or grass and water, plus corn. Feathers add to value. Waterfronts desir able hut not necessary. Every fowl has its staunch advo cate. Judging from the ratio reared of various kinds, the goose stands I third in popular estimation. In con sideration of its intrinsic qualities, this is surprising. Of all poultry, the goose is hardiest. It runs the gamut of temperature extremes in the tem perate climate undisturbed. Where as chickens, guineas and turkeys must, jbe environed with watchful care lest ; disease assail. The gosling early S achieves independence. Of all the ills to which the former are heirs, it claims no inheritance. Pip, gapes, roup, cholera and their kind pass by ! the gosling. It is because it is a genuine vegetarian? Provide the gos -1 ling with water, a good range and a home at night, and it is happily suf ficient unto itself. Nothing else out strips its babyhood proportions with | such seven-league boots, as the gos ling. Today it greets you, fresh from the shell, a plump, talkative, respon : sive bunch of golden down; next week | a faded, gawky creature wobbles to | meet you. clumsy, yet still trustful and friendly. There is something substantial and practical about the goose, a certain re liability that should commend it to poultry raisers apart from its profit able aspect. The flighty guinea and the irresponsible turkey at times try the poultry raiser's soul sorely. The ' goose, quiet and capable with her i healthy brood after the first few weeks. is dependable and trustworthy. In goose-raising, as much import ance attaches to the selection o fa va riety as with chickens. The demand of the nearest market usually swings the decision. In New York. Phila delphia and Baltimore, the white com mand best prices alive. Consequent j ly, nearby sections favor a breed of this color. Of the seven varieties, three are most common. The large | Toulouse is prolific, but its gray feath ' ers are inferior. The Chinese goose, slender and white, or perhaps brown, j with knobbed bill, is noisy and small. ;The Emden seems to be the "general utility" breed, for besides its abundant thatch of white feathers, it weighs al most as heavily as its gray relation, the Toulouse. Selecting tlie Breeders A flock may number from three geese and one gander to thirty geese and ten ganders, dependent upon the farmer's resources in grass. The pre valent size numbers twelve, from which the farmer may average sev enty-five goslings. Flocks are as | sembled in December, likewise all changes made therein. If young geese are wanted, they should be tak en from the first-hatched goslings. In dividuals are selected for size, shape liness and proportion. Young gan ders and geese are distinguishable on ly by experienced persons. The male carries a high head on a long neck and utters a call not so shrill as that of the goose. He may be larger also. Otherwise, no notable difference ex jists. In the laying season, when the ] female develops a dewlap, the sexes I are plainly apparent. Breeders should always be marked to insure them from I being mistaken for well-developed gos | lings when the final separation takes I place in December. Qualifications of Goose Mothers When geese establish a reputation as layers of large and many eggs, and as sensible mothers, they are good for long service. Some families rec ord keeping certain geese for 20 years. Pew are permitted such longevity, but it Is possible and the elder mothers are undeniably best. After the flock Is chosen and has been tested, unnecessary alterations are unwise. The goose that lays small or deformed eggs, or proves to be a frivolous parent, should be dis posed of. For various reasons, gan ders are often changed, chiefly to im prove the stock and to increase the size of the offspring. To introduce one strange gander Into the flock is to Invite dissension. The old ones flay hlin unmercifully. The better policy AS to umk« a cev of all BUFF ORPINGTON DUCKS j early maturity. One record from Cali , fornia shows that a flock commenced to lay at the age of sixteen weeks. An other record shows that two ducks laid 258 eggs in six months, which is great j ly in excess of the average duck's pro | ductlon. ! The plumage of this variety is a soft buff over all, with the exception of the i male, that has a seal brown head sev eral shades darker than the body col or. The bills on both sexes are green ish yellow. The aim has been to breed only those laying white eggs, and to this end careful breeders are hatching only the whitest eggs. A few years of this selection will produce the desired re sult. The weights required of these ducks are six to seven pounds for males, and five to six pounds for fe i males. -ganders at once. Equality makes for peace. • The family life of geese abounds with interest. The gander chooses ' one mate to whom he devotes himself | assiduously. He is jealously suspic ious, whence many bloody battles with I other ganders He accompanies her faithfully. When they walk together, ; lie stalks ahead. He has been seen to block her way deliberately when she evinced an intention to choose her own direction. ' During the winter—the season of (courtship—geese begin to need more j oversight. .Most growers agree that [ over-fat geese produce the greater j number of infertile eggs, and guard I against such conditions accordingly. Thin geese, on the other hand, defer | laying which makes late broods. This l in turn curtails weight at shipping time. The profitable medium is the goose of average weight laying early in February- Such eggs may be set in March. The goslings break the : shell in time for the earliest tender >grass. From this hatching' come the best breeders. Care of the Kggs The goose-house, in deference to I that fowl's strong attachment for its | quarters should always have the same location. Any style of architecture suits the goose. The nest is the im jportant feature. Box-like nests, 15x22 inches, built side by side on the earth 'en floor, with a liberal filling of hay, straw, dead pine leaves or other lit ter. are an excellent accommodation. , The eggs should be collected daily, and I marked with ink or indelible pencil (with the date of laying. This en ables the raiser always to set oldest eggs first, for in this business as with all poultry, the older the egg for in ißubation, the weaker the youngster. ' In saving the eggs till brooding time, certain safeguards are needful. Eggs should be set on end, turned often and protected from drying and sudden ex tremes of temperature. A flannel lined box or old feather-bed in an un seated room is often favored, the eggs I being covered with pillows. I Natural incubation is to be prefer red to artificial. For the purpose of getting more eggs from the flock, at least two hens should be set coinci dent with each goose. Each may fover five or six. depending upon size of hens and eggs. One goose can hover the resultant hatching of her own and of the hens. For every dozen set. one goose may be broken I from sitting to resume her second laying. These last eggs, laid in warm j weather, unsupervised, usually hatch j phenomenally well. Though the gos- I lings face life to be supported on the lough grass of June, they grow rapidly , with supplemental feeding and become • worthy, if belated, members of the j season's flock. Normally, a goose egg hatches in 28 •lays, but it may be prolonged. Tardy goslings may require aid to emerge from the shell, but it must be cau tious, else permanent injury results. These unfortunates lack stamina, but may outgrow the discrepancy. Management of tioslings Goslings are removed from the nest lest they be crushed. The second day restores them to the mother, who is given a roomy coop with sod floor. Kor food they like a liquid mixture of meal and bran In a pieplate, often replenished. Coarse sand Is acces sible. Hard-boiled egg, chopped grass, bread crumbs in milk, etc., are not needed by Emdens. Goslings revel in sunshine and grass flanked with water. A wire-topped coop with slat sides, Bx6x2 feet, which is easily moved is efficient in confin | Why Postpone Your Yellowston* Trip Any Longer If you've never been to Yellowstone, It's high time that you go. Make this a Yellowstone-summer; If you do, it will become a Red Letter summer in your life, for Yellowstone is never to be for gotten once you have seen it. It is Nature's own museum, where she has collected a great per cent, of her most unusual wonders. There are the Emerald and Morning Glory Pools. Biscuit Basin, the Devil's Kitchen, and his Watch-Fob; Jupiter's Terrace and Old Faithful Geyser, to say nothing of the hundreds of other natural won ders. The wild animals themselves are well worth seeing. The visitor to Yellow stone sees bear, elk, deer, antelope, mountain sheep, beaver, and a great many species of wild game. Imagine a waterfall twice the height of Niagara and located in a can von which is a veritable riot of colors, and you have the gigantic and justly fam ous Yellowstone Falls. If you will leave it to me, T will plan your trip complete for you. My knowl edge of the West Is entirely' at your dispos.nl without charge—it is just a part "f BI'IiI j!NGTON Service. Call, or. If more convenient, write u postal, and I will see that you get our folder about Yellowstone Park, with a splen did map in colors and full description. Win. Austin. General Agent Passen ger Department. C.. B. L). it. R. Co.. 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This 80-page r illustrated book shows how (o make scores or permanent improvements with ♦ ALPHA. Phone us or drop >■« a line, if vou can't call. COWDEN & OO 9tli AM) HERR. HARRISBI'RG Muth Brother* Elizabeth town J & VI.M ",! 1 Cemenl Co - Lcmoyns KL !«J ■ • * * • * • " • Mechanlcahurp s2m«il*l2n B Sprlno* S r J New Cumberland r'„„ « £-li- Geo. S. Peters . . . . . . . . Palmyra [ ins the mother and allowinK the gos- ' lings range for a week. Thereafter! they may trudge abroad with their 1 mother, attended by a proud daddy.' Most raisers limit goslings to the lawn or small lot for ten weeks, when they j graduate to the pasture—and inde pendence. Water-fronts are not absolutely es sential to successful goose-raising, but 1 add to the fowl's comfort. Parasites ' are not so troublesome if there Is un hampered access to water and the plummage is cleaner. In August, and thereafter at periods of seven weeks, the flock is plucked of its "ripe" (ready to be shed) feathers. Three pickings from 75 fowls aggre gate at least 50 pounds of choice feathers at 65 cents. Plucking and fattening have a close ! connection. Immediately after the ! last "picking." goslings should be fat- 1 lt?ned. When full-fledged they add no more weight till after another shed ding, and are therefore ready for S shipment. With their sale, the farm er pockets his most profitable fowl and least troublesome crop. In the production of pullets for newt season's layers, the poultry, inati is almost certain to find liiiii- I -self in possession of an equal num ber of cockerels, for which lie has lint little need. These surplus cockerel-- ran lie turned lo a profit able account If they are handled properly, whlcli i* the substance of next week's article by Prof. James B. Monnan. V tt'll,l, HOLD TOWS PICMC Shirenianstown. Pa., May 20.—At a citizens meeting held in the fire engine house last night It was decided to hold the Shiremanstown picnic at Boiling Springs August 3. 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New York Buffalo New Orleans Houston Boston Savannah Pittsburgh Stock Transfer Ledger i The Pennsylvania Stock Transfer Tax Law (Act of June ! 4, 1*16) which la now In effect requires all corporations In the State, ! no matter how large they may b« to keep a Stock Transfer Ledger. We are prepared to supply these Ledgers promptly at a vary nominal I price. ! ' ii 1 I | < 1 i ■ i 1 < | ij The Telegraph Printing Co Prlntlnc—Bindinf —Designing—Photo Engraving HAKIUSBLKG, PA. '!. __l Social and Personal News of Towns Along West Shore -Mrs. Kllzabeth Snell, of Folansbee, W. Va„ and Mrs. A. B. Spink, of Steel ton. spent yesterday with friends al New Cumberland. Miss Grace Poffehberger and Mrs. Buck, of Millersburg, were guests ol Mrs. J. P. Boush at New Cumberland this week. William Cugley, Philadelphia, visit ed Mr. and Airs. If. A. Dill at New Cumberland yesterday. Mrs. I.elnbaugh, who lias been spend ing several weeks with Sir. and Mrs. .1. J. Baugliman, at New Cumberland, returned to Dawson, Pa., yesterday. Herman of New Cumberland, was taken to the Ifarrlsburg hospital for treatment yesterday. Adopt Standards to Warn Autoists at R. R. Crossings Sptcial lo the Telegraph New York. May 20. Specillc stan dards for protecting grade crossings on all railroads of the country, to lessen the likelihood of accidents, were adopt ed at the semiannual meeting of the American Railway Association. Tills 'action was taken on the loconnmenda | tlon of a committee which reported j that, largely because of the increased use of the automobile, accidents at grade crossings In many parts of the country have increased 1,000 per cent, in the last five years. It is planned to standardize cross ing signals throughout the country In j order that motorists may easily recog ■ nlze the warning. 3
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