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77? P Jtl Qldpr" BY VIRGINIA TERHUNE
1 111> lUOIUVf VAN DE WATER
Elizabeth Meets Grace Norton, the Little Girl
Who Is to Be Her Charge
"This is Grace," said the Aunt
CHAPTER 11.
(Copyright, 1916, Star Company)
To say that I was nervous on the
morning on which I was to take my
position in the home of Mr. Brewster
Norton is putting it mildly. Vet I
would not admit to myself that I was
frightened. To do so would have
been fatal to my self-confidence. I
had a sensation of burning my bridges
behind me as I packed my trunk and
gave it to the expressman to be de
livered that afternoon.
Then, with my small bag in my
hand, and my heart in my throat. I
took the stage uptown to the cross
street just off of Riverside Drive,
where my new employer lived.
I mounted the low stone steps of
the large house and rang the bell.
The maid who admitted me smiled
pleasantly.
"You are Miss Dart, aren't you?"
she asked. "Mrs. Gore said I was to
Show you right up to her room as
eoon as you came."
"Thjrnk you," I murmured, follow
ing her up the broad stairs.
At a door of a room on the second
floor she stopped and knocked.
~ * "Come in!" I heard a woman call.
The maid opened the door, stood
to one side to allow me to enter, an
nounced me as "Miss Dart," then
withdrew.
The room into which I stepped was
flooded with sunshine. In a large
<-hair by one of the windows sat a
delicate-looking woman of about fifty.
She rose as I came forward.
"You are Miss Dart, I think?" she
observed in a languid voice.
As she spoke. I remembered that
her brother-in-law had said that she
was "a widow and somewhat of an
invalid." She looked it. and yet she
did not move like an ill person.
Ail Introduction
"Yes," I told her; "I am the new
governess."
"I am Mrs. Gore," she said. "I am
the aunt of your little charge her
mother's sister."
For a moment X did not know what
to say. "I hope," I ventured, diffi
PLAN VOCATIONAL SCHOOL j
Blain, Pa., Feb. 5. Professor R.
W. Heim, supervisor of agriculture
education, Pennsylvania Department!
of Public Instruction. Harrisburg. was
here to meet the school directors of
the district on business pertaining to
the establishment of a vocational I
school at Blain. The directors ap-1
peared favorable toward the starting j
of the school.
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MONDAY EVENING,
| dently, "that I will be able to dis- ]
' charge my duties satisfactorily."
The words sounded very stiff and
stillted, and I found myself suddenly
embarrassed. To explain my lack of
; confidence, I added. "This is the first j
! time I have ever been in anybody's
; employ."
"I am glad!" Her face lighted
with relief. "I have dreaded putting
| Grace into the hands of some world
: ly-wise person some person who
! has lived in schools and taught scores i
'of children. She is a sensitive little
creature, and I want her to have a
congenial companion."
"Is she in now?" I inquired.
"No, I sent her out for a little
walk with my maid," Mrs. Gore said.
"This girl, who has been a maid to
me, and something like a nurse for
| Grace, is fond of the child and very
good to her. But Maggie is, after all,
only an uneducated girl, and Grace
needs other companionship. She is
a lonely little thing, for we have
110 young life in the house when Tom,
: the boy, is away at school, and her
! father does not want her to go to
kindergarten. Now, Miss Dart, you
j will want to see your room. It is;
right over this room on the next
floor. Shall I call some one to take;
you up to it?"
"No, indeed:" I said. "I can find
my way up perfectly well."
' Mrs. Gore's was a large square
chamber at the rear of the house.
Mine was exactly like it in size and
shape, only a floor higher up. Out
of it on the right opened a small,
bathroom.
I closed my door behind me and i
looked about me with a sigh of com
fort. This was living!
A Fine Room
Two great windows let in the sun- i
shine through dainty sash curtains
f>f net, while long curtains of cre
tonne hung outside of these. The
hardwood floor had a thick rug on it. j
On one side of the room stood a
brass bed; on the other, a chest of
drawers and a couch. Between the 1
windows stood a dressing table; at :
one side of one window was a desk'
' P. R. K. COAL TRAIN WRECKED
Pottsville, Pa., Feb. 5.—A wreck of
a coal train on the Pennsylvania rail
road yesterday at Adamsdale is hold
' ing up traffic. Coal is scattered along
j the tracks, which are torn up for 200
■ yards. The loss is heavy. Passengers
for Philadelphia and intermediate
J points south and for Pottsville, north.
| are transferred, delaying the arrival
of trains. Wreck crews from Reading
Land Mount Carbon are working to
clear up the debris.
and on this a desk lamp. A large
closet was at the rear of the room
and in its door was fitted a long
mirror. Next to this was another
door openMig, I supposed, into tfie
front room beypnd. It was locked
now. In all my life I had never
been so luxuriously lodged.
"If I can only give satisfaction,"
I muttered, as I removed my hat
and coat and hung them in the deep
closet. s
Then, when I had unpacked my
handbag, washed my hands and re
arranged my hair, I went downstairs.
I fancied I had heard a child's voice
a few minutes ago.
As I entered Mrs. Gore's room in
response to her "Come in!" I came
face to face with my new charge.
She was standing, hat and coat still
on, watching the door. She had evi
dently been told that she might ex
pect me at any instant.
Mrs. Gor* spoke my name im
mediately.
"Miss Dart, this is Grace, your new
charge, Grace Norton. Grace, my
dear, this is your new governess.
Shake hands with her at once."
The little creature came forward
timidly, her hand held out. She walk
ed lightly, on her toes, scarcely seem
ing to touch the floor.
"How do you do?" she said, in a
clear, flutelike voice, no gleam of a
smile in her deep eyes.
I took her thin hand in mine, and
drew her to me.
"I hope we are going to be good
friends," I said. Then I knelt and
put my arms about her. "I am very
fond of little girls." I went on. "anil
I am sure that you and I will like
each other."
She said nothing, but, drawing
back, eyed me with the calm Scrutiny
peculiar to unspoiled children. There
was no sell'-consciousness in the ap
praising gaze. She was evidently
taking me all in, and pronouncing
judgment upon me in her own mind.
I felt almost afraid as to what her
verdict would be.
(To be continued.)
NO IMMEDIATE
RISE IN PRICES
Severance of Relations Not
Likely to Send Up Cost of
Food Stuffs
There will be no immediate rise
in the price of foodstuffs on accojnt
of the severing of diplomatic rela
tions with Germany, according to the
heads of several Harrisburg whole
sale houses this afternoon.
'The supply of meat isn't large
enough now to cause any change in
prices," declared F. W. Covert, mana
ger of Swift & Comapny, in discussing
the situation. "At any rate 1 see no
immediate effect on the market."
E. S. Manbeck, manager of the Har
risburg Haking Company, said that he
was trying to figure out last night Just
what effect a declaration of war
would have oh the baking business.
I see no likelihood of a rise ia prices
Just now." said Mr. Manbeck, "but it
is pretty hard to mako anything like
an accurate forecast."
E. X. Hershey, of the Hershev
Creamery Company, said: "Large ex
portation of condensed milk have kept
prices up and it would be reasonable
[ to suppose that should exports be af
fected prices would drop. I do not
look for any rise in the price of but
ter or milk."
At the office of Evans-Burtnett
Company, wholesale grocers, it was
stated that prices would probably flue- 1
tuate but that nothing definite could
be satd with regard to price move
ments at this time.
PROMINENT DEATHS AT YORK
York, Pa., Feb. s.—Wrightsvllle had
two prominent deaths yesterday. The
Rev. E. D. Keen, aged t>7. a United
Kvangelical minister, died after a lin
gering Illness. He is survived by his
wife and son, the Rev. Paul Keen at
home. Peter J Gilbert, aged 62 years,
for twenty-five years director in the
First National Hank and prominent In
lodge affairs. <lled of a complication of
diseases ending with apoplexy.
SLAYER GETS SECOND I)F.REE
Wllkes-Barre, Pa., Feb. s.—"Guilty
of murder in the second degree." This
was the verdict rendered by the Jury
In the trial of Thomas CDoughey")
Williams, arretted for the murder of
Ida May Brown, aged 18, of Sebastopol.
after he had confessed the killing and
signed a statement setting forth the
manner In which he caused her death.
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FOODS TI TES? OR I
AMAZING BUT RARELY SUSPECTED
TRUTHS ABOUT THE THINGS YOU EAT
A?fra r i '& h rv J By ALFRED W. McCANN
All Attacks Against Public Health
Officials Are Met Invariably by a
Show of Statistics Designed to Re
veal the Extent ol' the Officials'
Activities and the Magnitude of
Hicir Accomplishments These
Statistics Serve to Disarm Public
Anxiety When the Truth Makes Its
Occasional Appearance oil the Sur
face.
That we may fully appreciate the
tactics employed by corrupt officials
who, ignoring their oath of office,
promote selfish interests at the ex
pense of public welfare, it seems fit
ing before disposing of the Johnson
avenue disclosure to trace briefly the
trail of the serpent as it glided, in
its effort to escape public attention,
from one quarry of official protection
to another.
Prior to the arrest of the Brook
lyn slaughterers, the Health Depart
ment officials of New York City were
engaged in a system of falsifying their
public records and their annual re
ports to the mayor.
This corrupt system of fooling the
people was designed not only to cover
crimes against public health, but also
to pad the meaningless statistics com
piled for show purposes to reconcile
the people to the expense of continu
ing their "protectors" in office.
When I first began my public ex
posures of the corruption of the
Health Department, I was instantly
encountered with a spectacular dis
play of statistics which showed that
hundreds of thousands of pounds of
condemned foodstuffs had been dis
posed of by the officials as evidence
of their many activities and achieve
ments.
Notwithstanding the fact that I was
able to pile up proof after proof of
the Health Department's rascality,
proofs which defied the skilful ef
forts of clever attorneys to break
them down, proofs which withstood
the scrutiny of the courts and re
sulted in the conviction of over two
hundred enemies of public health in
New York alone, the deadly signifies
ance of these padded statistics had a
strong tendency to disarm tho entire
community.
At regular intervals the newspa
pers of New York City und State
published these statistics as silent
witnesses of the Health Department's
untiring energy in protecting the
people's health.
In May, 1916, these padded sta
tistics were Just as active in the
Health Department of New York City
as they had been in January, 1911.
Jan. 31, 1911,. Commissioner of Ac
counts Kaymond B. Fosdick, in an of
ficial report to Mayor William J. Oay
nor, said relative to this subject:
"A close study of the Bureau of
Food Inspection reveals the fact that
more attention has been paid to th<;
records of the bureau than to effec
tive inspection. Nearly all the
slaughterhouses in Manhattan are un
der federal inspection. Yet the
Health Department has maintained a
sort of inspection over these places
for the sole purpose of securing from
the government inspectors the num
ber of pounds of meat condemned.
"These government figures are re
ported by the Health Department as
its own figures, representing condem
nations by its own inspectors. The
Health Department report in one in
stance shows the total quality of
meat condemned in Manhattan to be
2,458,327 pounds. These condemna
tions were not made by the Health
Department's inspectors. but were
copied outright from the federal in
spectors' reports."
The investigation of Raymond Fos
dlck was conducted by two represen
tatives of the commissioner of ac
counts. assisted by a veterinarian loan
ed to him by the Department of Agri
culture on special orders from the
chief of the Bureau of Animal In
dustry, Washington. D. C.
It covered the horrors of New York
City's sausage factories which, not
withstanding Fosdick's official de
scription of them, were permitted to
remain undisturbed in all their re
volting wretchedness until 1 began
| an unofficial and "muck-raking" cru
! sade against them.
It covered in detail the slaughter
houses of Kobert Plaut & Sons and
S. & H. Plaut, whose proprietors six
years later, due to my unofficial
muck-raking, were finally brought to
i justice.
Its exposures of these shambles of
I infamy were full and complete. Yet
|no official interference with them
; followed.
The graft system which the slaugh
terers hail established and their as
sertions that they were able to com
mand vast political influence kept
the hands of the "honest" officials off.
Of all the influence, public or pri
vate, that might have been asserted
in the interests of common health, a
single newspaper, unaided and in
spite of official opposition, asserted
itself and backed my impertinent and
officious interference with this hellish
situation.
Had it not been for this effort to
make neglected public affairs a per
sonal concern, the records of the past
indicate that hundreds of officially
protected rascals would be still en
gaged in their inhuman activities.
Unfortunately the results obtained
by private efforts are usually review
ed with distaste by public officials, as
a result of which human weakness
no organized public effort has been
made to apply the lessons learned
from my many unhdppy adventures
in the field of food corruption.
hen I have succeeded in breaking
up a privileged industry In one spot
I have invariably learned that the
center of infection is soon scattered
to other districts and goes on as be
fore.
Fosdick's report eloquently 1 em
phasized, in the face of the develop
ments that six years later followed its
delivery to Mayor Gaynor, the dead
liness of that form of official sloth
growing out of petty graft and poli
tical pull.
His report contained these words:
"Particular attention is called to
the slaughterhouse of Kobert Plaut &
Son, located at Johnson avenue,
Brooklyn. Our inspectors found hang
ing in tiie cooler of this establishment
two dressed cow carcasses which had
been passed by the Health Depart
ment as wholesome, but which, be
cause of the fact that the costal
pleura had been stripped from the
forenuartcrs ami tubercular lesions
were cbscrved around the borders of
the stripped areas, must have come
from cattle in an advanced stage of
tuberculosis.
"The absence of federal inspection
and (lie laxity of city Inspection brings
o tills slaughterhouse a class of cat
tic that cannot lie handled through
federal inspected abattoirs.
"In the plant of S. & if. Plant,
Johnson avenue, rotten meat intend
ed lor bologna was found. The stuff
had every evidence of having been
shovelled up from the flbor into the
barrel, as the meat was well mixed
with such liltli as is usually found on
the floor of a slaughterhouse."
All the State health commissioners
an the State commissioners of agri
culture, all the food and drug com
missioners of the. country, know well
the truth of the paragraph of Fos
dlck a report as printed above in
black.
The reason that this truth is not
acted upon is due solely to public
ignorance and indifference.
STATE SOCIETY RECOGNIZES
ALLENTOWX WRITER'S WORK
Allentown, Pa., Feb. 5. There
was worthy recognition of hard work
and merit when Charles Khoads Rob
erts, of Allentown, at a meeting In
Harrisburg last week, was elected
president of the State Federation of
Historical Societies, succeeding Sena
tor W. O. Sproul.
Mr. Roberts is a lineal descendant
of Judge Peter Rhoads, who was Al
lentown's member of the Colonial As
sembly. the Judge at that period and
whose bouse, still standing, is the old
est dwelling in Allentown. It was
Judge Rhoads who arranged for the
hiding of the liberty Bell in Zion
Church, Allentown, in 1777, when
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FEBRUARY 5, 1917.
Lord Howe's army threatened Phila
delphia.
Mr. Boberts is secretary of tho Le
high County Historical Society, and
one of the chief factors in the move
ment to restore Trout Hall, the lirst
building in Allentown, built by Judge
James Allen, the founder. The re
stored Trout Hall, on the site of old
Muhlenberg College, is to be the home
and museum of the Lehigh Historical
Society.
Mr. Boberts* greatest work to date
has been as editor and chief writer
of the centennial history of Lehigh
County, a stupendous work in three
volumes, aggregating about 3,000
pages. He is a member of the Penn
sylvania German Society and of the
Pennsylvania Society of the Sons of
the Bevolution.
BOOZE AND KANSAS
Among the most earnest slanderers
of communities which have kicked
booze out is Senator Beed of Missouri.
The following statements were made
by him on the iioor of the Senate in
the course of the debate on prohibi
tion for the District of Columbia:
"I remember a good many yeavs ago
trying a case in a court which was
presided over by the Senator's dis
tinguished father. 1 think, in a small
town in Kansas. It seemed to me that
there was not a lawyer at the bar who
t was not a common drunkard, and they
had prohibition there, but it did not
j prohibit. *
"I had a good deal of business for a
good many years in Kansas, and I say
now, without desiring to reflect upon
the Senator's State, that there were
more drunkards to the square acre in
Kansas than in any place I ever was,
and that, too, under a prohibitory
law. * * *"
Senator Beed's statements, of course
are the kind of broad generalizations
which are not susceptible of disproof
by exact figures. Generally, all that
the hearer can do Is to make a mental
estimate of the sort of man who utters
them. But Senator Curtis of Kansas
made a very effective reply when he
read the following statistics from
official reports for the year 1914:
"Twenty-eight counties Kansas
did not have a prisoner in jail during
all that year.
"Forty-eight counties did not send
a prisoner to the penitentiary.
"Twelve counties had not called a
jury for the trial of a criminal case
in a number of years.
"Twenty counties did not have any
prisoner in the State penitentiary."
—From Collier's Weekly for February
3rd.
TWENTY-FIVE DOLLAR FALL
Theodore Marston was directing
Charlotte Walker in "Sloth," one of
McClure Pictures' Seven Deadly Sins.
It was a battle scene, and a "stunt"
man had been engaged to be shot off
his horse In front of the camera.
The scene started. The rider dash
ed into the camera's range, threw up
his arms and slid from his horse.
"No good!" cried Mr. Marston.
"Make it a real one."
"You said yon wanted a ten dollar
full," protested the "stunt" man.
"I want the best you have," said
Mr. Marston. "What are your rates?"
"Ten dollars if 1 fall on my feet,
$25 If I throw the horse and fall on
my head."
"Give us the $25 kind," said Mr.
Marston.
The "stunt" man delivered a beau
tiful fall, landing on his head, unhurt.
Two weeks later, making a $lO fall
for another company, he broko one
of his legs.
DRINK HOT TEA
FOR A BAD COLD
Get a small package of Hamburg
Breast Tea, or as the German folks
call it. "Hamburger Brust Thee," at
any pharmacy. Take a tablespoonful
of the tea. put a cup of boiling water
upon It, pour through a sieve and
drink a teacup full at any time. It
•s the most effective way to break a
cold and cure grip, as it opens the
pores, relieving congestion. Also
loosens the bowels, thus breaking a
cold at once.
it is inexpensive and entirely vege
table. therefore harmless.
—Good' Printing—
The Telegraph Printing Co.
irOI.I) BIRTHDAY PARTY
Mechanicsburg, Pa., Feb. 5. To
celebrate her sixteenth birthday, Miss
Elizabeth Crawford, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. A. B. Crawford, gave a de
lightful party on Saturday evening at
her home, 417 West Main street. Tho
guests included the Kittatinny Camp
Fire Girls, of which Miss Elizabeth is
a member, as follows: Misses Miriam
Zufall, Bachel Shelley, Mary Koller,
Marjorie Baum, Florence Orris, Eliza
beth Hurst, Miriam Orris, Buth Miller
and Etta Miller. The young people en
joyed music, games and camp tiro
songs. Befreshments were served.
Other guests were Miss Blanche Baine,
a Camp Fire girl, of Harrisburg: Miss
Margaret Blackburn, guardian of tho
(Ire; Mrs. McKinley, Mrs. Priscilla
Pyle, Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Crawford,
and Albert B. Crawford, Jr. On
Thursday, February 15, the Camp
Fire Girls will enjoy a valentine mas
querade party at the home of Miss
Mary Koller, 303 East Main street.
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Coal For the
Coldest Month
February for sonic years
past has been the coldest
month of Winter. It bids fair
to maintain its record this
year with less supply of
coal above ground than in
many years.
This serious scarcity of
coal may not affect you, who
filled your bins when coal
was in greater supply than
present. But there are many
it does.
The pinch will conic when
orders cannot be filled.. And
such a condition is likely.
Have you enough coal to tide
you over tjl) Spring?
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Office, 1 North Third
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