"The Insider" By Virginia Terhune Van de Water CHAPTER XV (Copyright, 1917, Star Company) Looking back, 1 wonder that. I ac quitted myself so well during the first few minutes at the supper table that Sunday night. The rem&rk I had overheard em barrassed me, yet 1 showed no evi dence of this until Mrs. Gilman, the other woman guest, said as she took her seat at her host's right hand: "I agree with Mrs. Jlavens, Mr. Morton. You are fortunate in having in your home a sweet young relative who can take your sister's place when 'she is ill. 1 always tell my husband that we are lucky in having a daugh ter who is old enough to preside when 1 am away from home or under the weather." "You are indeed fortunate," my em ployer said quickly. "How many chil dren have you?" 1 was grateful to hint for his prompt speech, uttered, 1 knew, to save me the necessity of replying to Mrs. Gil man's observation. Was lie also more than willing to have his guests con sider me a relation of his? It did not occur to me that perhaps ho had spoken of mo as a cousin in order to be spared the explanation that I was only his daughter's governess. By the time my flushed cheeks had cooled and my heart had begun to beat again with its accustomed regu larity, the conversation had turned in another direction, and I was no longer startled by personalities. But I was much interested in what was being said. These people talked well. I took my part when necessary; at other times I listened. I listened with especial intentness when Mrs. Gilman asked the host if he had al ways lived in New York, and Mr. Norton replied in the negative. I had supposed that he was a New Yorker. "Our firm has always had a large branch here," he went on, as if in re ply to my unspoken question. "So I have been back and forth from Chi cago to this city ever since I left col lege. Several years ago I moved my family here and bought this house. I found it wise to live in the East. It is better for my business. A Country Home, Too "But," Mr. Havens said, "didn't you tell me that you have a country home in the East?" "Yes, in Connecticut," Mr. Norton Informed him. "We spend all our summers there. We. have done so for many years—-even when my home was in Chicago." "That was strange," Mrs. Gilman observed. "Few families would care to go all that distance fo rthe sum mer." "Perhaps not," her host returned. "But my children are fond of the place, and it agrees with their health." "But how," questioned the woman, "did you, living out in Chicagd, hap pen to buy property up in Connecti cut ?" ■ "My wife came from Hartford," H was the brief response. She owned some land there—in Litchfield county —so we built there. And, as she loved the spot, and the children continue to S3OO FOR BREACH OF PROMISE Washington, Pa., March 17. A jury of Greene county farmers award ed damages yesterday in the sum of S3OO to Miss Blanche Longstreth, a society girl of Waynesburg, in her suit for SIO,OOO for alleged breach of promise against J. Florence Baker, a wealthy farm,er of Cumberland town ship. The case has been pending for some time and was one of the most sensational here in recent years. TRAPS 28 WEASELS llazleton, Pa., March 17. Stanley Novak, of Freeland, was to-day given the title of being the l)est game pro tector in lower Luzerne county. Dur ing the last week he has trapped six weasels in the nearby woods, bringing his total for the season up to twenty eight. Game clubs have set out poi son to kill off weasels and foxes. KEEP A JAR OF MUSIEROLE HANDY It Quickly Loosens Up Coughs and Colds in Throat or Chest Just a little Musterole rubbed on your sore, tight chest before you go to bed will loosen up congestion and break up most severe colds and coughs. Musterole is a clean white ointment made with oil of mustard. Simply rub it on. No plaster necessary. Better than mustard plaster and does not blister. Thousands who use Musterole will tell what relief it gives from sore throat, bronchitis tonsilitis, croup, stiff neck, asthma, neuralgia, headache, congestion, pleurisy, rheumatism, lumbago, pains and aches of the back or joints, sprains, sore muscles, bruises, chilblains, frosted feet and colds (it often prevents Pneumonia). Little Coal on the Surface That's the situation. Yards f have never been so short of fuel at this season of the year. And there's no prospect .of improve ment. The chances are it will keep the collieries busy the entire spring and summer to supply the imme diate needs of the market. Conditions will not permit of any getting ahead of the demand to accumulate a surplus. If you need coal buy it at once. H. M. KELLEY & CO. OlTloei 1 North Third Street Yard*i Trntli jtnd .State SATURDAY EVENING, love it, I still take my household there every year." Mrs. Gllman turned to me. "And you, too?" she asked. Again Mr. Norton came to my res rue. "She will bo this year," he said. "We have not been so fortunate as to have her with us during other sum mers." "But your , sister. Mrs. Gore, lives with you all the year around, does she not?" Mrs. Gilman questioned. "She is your only sister?" 1 was sure I had. never heard an other woman ask so many questions. If 1 had not been subtly conscious that she was on thin ice I might have thought her interest but natural. "Mrs. Gore is my sister-in-law— my wife's sister," my employer ex plained. "Yes, I am lucky in having her with me both in the city and country." Then, as Mrs. Havens made some remark about his little girl, he be gan to talk eagerly of the child. I was sure that his zest was not alone due to his devotion to his daughter— although this was deep and sincere. But he desired to escape her in terrogation upon unwelcome topics. Yet even I was not then aware that there was anything that might em barrass him in Mrs. Oilman's next question. Away at School "You have a son, you suy. Are he and the girl near the same age?" , "I have one son," was the answer. "He is nine years older than Grace." | "And he is away at boarding school? What a pity there is such a difference in the children's ages! Has he been away from home for long?" "For about seven years—except at vacation times," the man replied. "Oh, poor child! How could his mother bear to let him go when he was so young? Or—was that—was that after the children had lost their mother?" There was a perceptible pause be fore the host replied. Then he said slowly, as if weighing his words: "Yes, it was after that. My little girl's mother left us when Grace was a tiny baby. 1 considered it better for the boy to be educated away from home." A sudden and incomprehensible sense of compassion for this man who was undergoing a cross-examination by an unthinking woman made me cast myself into the breach. "Mrs. Gilman," X observed, "I sup pose while you have been in New York you havfe seen all the points of interest—the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Natural His tory? New Yorkers," I hurried on, "are so heedless of the beautiful things in their own city! Those of us who live here don't stray into tbe Metropolitan once a year, whereas if wo were in a foreign city we would tire ourselves out visiting the picture galleries again and again." As Mrs. Gilman launched forth views as to certain pictures in the Metropolitan, which she had visited yesterday, I met my host's eye. Was I mistaken in thinking that I saw there a gleam of gratitude? (To Be Continued) . Shoemaker Wins Title in Amateur Pocket Billiards New York, March 17. —J. Howard Shoemaker, of Brooklyn, national amateur pocket billiard champion, won the title for the fourth time, fin ishing first in the tournament con cluded last night at the New York Athletic Club under the auspices of the National Association of Amateur Billiard Players. Shoemaker won seven games and lost, none and also took the high run prize with 39, four balls lower than the amateur record. In the final contest last night Shoe maker defeated Edward F. Reynolds, of the Amateur Billiard Club of New York, 125 to 101. Reynolds and WIL liam A. Tilt, of the New York Athletic Club, tied for second place with five games won. Automatic Soda Fountain Has Been Invented An automatic soda fountain has been patented by a resident of Hous ton, Tex., which is operated merely, by dropping the proper coin into a slot, according to the Popular Mechanics Magazine. Contained In an attractive wooden cabinet are three anks, one filled with syrup, another with car bonic-acid gas, and a third, which is surrounded with ice, is filled with water. There is also a container filled with parafllne cups. When/ a coin is dropped into the slot, it releases three delicately alanced levers, one after the other. The first allows a cup to drop from the container into an open ing, where it is within reach of the customer and beneath two spouts. When the coin passes the next lever, it releases a spring-bperated appara tus that allows the proper amount of syrup to tlow down into the cup. The third lever operates in the same man ner as the second and allows a little lesse than a cupful of iced carbondat ed water to flow into the cup. In this way the drink is properly mixed in a sanitary way and supplied to the cus tomer without human aid. BEWARE OF sudden colds. Take cascaraßouinine The old family remedy—in tablet form—safe, sure, easy to take. No ! opiates—no unpleasant after effects. [ Cures colds In 24 hours—Grip in 3 days. Money back if it fai's. Get I*3° with Red Top and Mr. Hill's picture on it—2s cents. At An j Drue Store ''■-M-XTTTJMM. Nuu-greuay Toilet Cre&ni Keep* the Skin Soft and Velvety In Hough Weather. An Exquisite Toilet Prep aration, 2 Be. uoiiuas' mine; stores ] N. Third St., aod P. It. K. Btatloq Copyright, 1913, by Doubladay, Pag* 'U (Continued.) With one man on either side and an other behind, revolvers drawn, we marched our prisoner in double quick time past the rear of the stores and saloons to the agreed rendezvous. There we foun<l Danny Randall and his committee with Morton. Within the next few moments. In rapid su cession, appeared the others with Scar face Charley, Crawford and Jules. The camp was already buzzing with excitement. Men poured out from the buildings into the streets like disturb ed ants. Danny thrust his prisoners into the interior of the cabin and drew us up In two lines outside. He im pressed on us that we must keep the military formation and that we were fo allow no one to approach. Across the road about twenty yards away he himself laid a rope. "That's the dead line," he announced. "Now, you keep the other side!" In no time a mob of 500 men had gathered. They surged restlessly to and fro. The flash of weapons was everywhere to be seen. Cries rent the air—demands, threats, oaths and In sults so numerous and so virulent that I must confess my heart failed me. At any lnstanfl expected the mob to open Are. They could have swept us away with a single volley. To my ex cited imagination every man of that multitude looked a ruffian. We seem ed alone against the community. I could not understand why they did •not rush us and have it over with. Yet they hesitated. The fact of the mat ter is that the desperadoes had no co hesion, no leaders, and they knew what none of us knew —namely, that a good many of that crowd must be on our side. The roar and turmoil and heat of discussion, argument and threat rose and fell. In one of the lulls an Irish voice yelled: "Hang them!" The words were greeted by a sullen assenting roar. Five hundred hands, each armed, were held aloft. This unanimity produced an Instant silence. "Hang who?" a truculent voice ex pressed the universal uncertainty. "Hang the road agents!" yelled back the little Irishman defiantly. "Bully for you, Irish! That took nerve!" muttered Johnny at my elbow. Fifty threats were hurled at the bold speaker, and the click of gunlocks pre ceded a surge hi his direction. Then from the mob went up a sullen, formidable muttering of warning. No individual voice be distinguish ed, but the total effect of dead resist ance and determination could not be mistaken. Instantly at the words so valiantly uttered the spirit of cohesion had been born, the desperadoes check ed in surprise. We had friends. How many or how strong no one could guess, but they were there, and In case of a battle they would tight. On our side the line was a dead, grim silence. We stood, our weapons rendy, rigidly at attention. Occasion ally one or the other of us muttered a warning against those who showed symptoms of desiring to interfere. In the meantime three of our num ber had been proceeding methodically with the construction of a gallows. This was made by thrusting five small pine butts, about forty feet long, over a cross beam in the gable of the eh bin and against the roof inside. Large dry goods boxes were placed beneath for the trap. About this time Danny Randall, who had been superintending the construc tion, touched me on the shoulder. "Fall back," he said quietly. "Now," he Instructed several of us after we had obeyed this command, "I want i you to bring out the prisoners and hold them in plain view. In case of reseuo or attempted escape shoot them instantly. Don't hesitate." "I should think they would be safer inside the cabin," I suggested. "Sure," agreed Danny, "but I want them here for the moral effect." We entered the cabin. The five pris oners were standing or sitting. Scar faeo Charley was alternately blas pheming violently, upbraiding his com panions, cursing his own luck and ut tering frightful threats against every body who had anything to do with this. Crawford was watching him contemptuously and every once in awhile advising him to "shut up!" Jules was alternately cursing and cry ing. Morton sat at one side quite calm* and very alert. Catlin stared at the floor. With revolvers drawn we marched them outside. A wild yell greeted their appearance. The cries were now mixed in sentiment. A hundred voices raised in opposition were cried down by twice as many more. "Hang 'em!" cried some. "No, no; banish them!" cried others. "Don't hang them!" and blood curdling threats. A single shot would have brought on a pitched bat tle. Somehow eventually the tumult died down. Then Morton, who had been awaiting his chance, spoke up in a strong vflflce. "I call on you in the name of the law to arrest and disperse these law breakers." HARRISBURG TELEGI IPH "Where is Tom Cleveland Y" spoke up a voice. The appeal, •which might otherwise have had its effect, was lost in the cries, accusations and counter accu sations that arose like a babel. Mor ton made no further attempt. He bet ter than any one realized, I think, the numerical superiority against him. The preparations were at length completed. Danny Randall' motioned us to lead forward the prisoners. Cat lin struggled desperately, but the oth ers walked steadily enough to take their places on the dry goods boxes. "For God's sake, gentlemen,'.' ap pealed Crawford in a loud tone of voice, "give me time to write home!" "Ask him how much time ho gave Tom Cleveland!" shouted a voice. "it I'd only had n show," retorted Crawford, "if I'd known wfcat you were after, you'd have had a gay time taking me." There was some little delay in ad justing the cords. <• "If you're going to hang me get at it!" said Jules, with an oath: "if not, I want you to tic a bandage on try finger. It's bleeding." "Give me vour coat. Catlln." snld Crawford. "You never gave me any thing yet. Now's your chance." Danny Randall broke In on this ex change. "You are about to be exeeifted," said le soberly. "If you have any dying ."equests to make this is your last op portunity. They will bo carefully Seeded." Scarface Charley broke in with a ugh laugh. "How do I look, boys, with a halter iround my neck?" he cried. This grim effort was received in si lence. "Your time Is very short," Danny re minded him. "Well, then," said the desperado, "I ivant one more drink of 4rhlsky before I die." CHAPTER XXVI. Community No Longer Afraid. A SPECIES of uneasy consterna. tion rippled over the crowd. Men glanced meaningly at each other, murmuring to gether. Some of the countenances ex pressed loathing, but more exhibited a surprised contempt. For a confused moment no one seemed to know quite what to do or what answer to make to so bestial a dying request. Danny broke the silence Incisively. "I promised them their requests would be carefully heeded," he said. "Give him the liquor." Somebody passed up a flask. Char ley raised it as high as he could, but was prevented by the rope from get ting it quite to his lips. "You he yelled at the man who "Men," Danny's voice rang out, clear and menacing, "do your duty!" held the rope, "slack off that rope and let a man take a parting drink, can't you Amid a dead silence the rope was slacked away. Charley took a long drink, then hurled- the half emptied flask far out into the crowd. To a question Crawford shook his head. "I hope God Almighty will strike ev ery one of you with forked lightuing and that I shall meet you all in the lowest pit of hell!" he snarled. Morton kept a stubborn and rather dignified silence. Catlln alternately pleaded and wept Jules answered Danny's question: "Sure thing! Pull off my boots for me. I don't want It to get back to my old mother that I died with my boots on." (To Be Continued.) DAILY DOT PUZZLES .25 *>• 24. .22 , 8 '25. • " ' 5 26, 2o 13 .12 27 • * . ' - " Z8 S 6 7 • .10 29. 4* *2 3o 3 8 9 53. ,3 J ♦ 3B 5 . 4 ' 32 37. SI 55 2? 4041 * *.sfo . .• 4z 51 v 35 " • •49 44 * 4B This pet cost a dollar note— Trace the lines and see a Draw from one to two and so on to the end. Sugar Economies Dried figs, prunes, raisins, and dates are preserved in their own sugar. Cooking figs soaked in their own measure of water and then cooked in it until some of the water is avaporat ed will have a thick sugary syrup around them. Serve these with whip ped cream or custard one day. Next day get your fruit by cooking soaked prunes without sugar and serving tliem in the same way. Balsins and dates, well sterilized, will help us to get both our needed fruit and our gratifying and energy giving sweet. We may cook bananas either with little sugar or none at all. If our time is not precious we may save on sugar in the same way some cooks do in making preserves. Cook the fruit iirst, then make but a small quantity of syrup with some of the liquid and cook part of the fruit in this, skim out, and cook the rest. Many cooks have an excess of syrup in cooking fruit which they can use pro fitably but do not always do so. Of course a syrup cannot be used too many times, because it is easy to over cook sugar. A cake that is sticky or crumbly is likely to have too much sugar. It is not as digestible a cake as one with less. Unless sugar is thoroughly mixed with the other ingredients the bottom of the cake will sometimes be sticky. In leaking a syrujS the liquid and sugar should always be stirred until the sugar is thoroughly dissolved. In one o ftlie newer food studies the author describes the complicated pro cesses sugar goes through, and all the machinery usqd in its manufacture, it seems marvelous that sugar can be sold for a few cents a pound." Per-' haps one of the adjustments we must make in these latter days will be the palying of more lor this food of high food unit value. CLEVELAND BUILDERS IDLE Cleveland, March 17. Nearly 20,- 000 union workmen, members of the Building Trades Council, were idle to day, as a result of the sweeping lock out order put into effect by the Build ing Trades Employers Association yes terday evening. Employers claim that virtually all construction work in the city has been stopped. Union men ad mit thousands are idle, but claim considerable building by independent contractors is going 011. Employers' leaders said they would not attempt to import strike-breakers. 9 YEARS FOR NEGRO DESPERADO Media, Pa., March 17. Charles Lloyd, a negro, who bound, gagged and robbed Mrs. Catherine Tuttle, a widow, of Marcus Hook.some time ago and attempted to kill Edwin H. Buch man, Chester, was found guilty yester day. Judge McKeen, of Easton, who is presiding in Criminal Court in the absence of Judge Johnson, sentenced Lloyd to pay a fine of SIOO and to un dergo imprisonment in the Eastern Penitentiary for a term of not less than nine years. MUST PAY FOR DEATH OF GIRL Lancaster, Pa., March 17. A jury in Common Pleas Court awarded $795.70 damages to Henry L. Gross in his suit against George E. Tole, a to bacco dealer, for causing the death of plaintiff's daughter nearly two years ago, when Tole, while he was intoxi cated, was driving an auto. Tole was convicted in Quarter Sessions Court for causing the child's death and was sentenced to jail .for eighteen months. 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PREPARING THE GARDEN SOIL How to Apply Fertilizers and Lime When the Ground Is Ready For Cultivation A SIMPLE test to determine when garden soil Is ready for plowing or working is to take a handful of earth from the surface and close the lingers tightly on it. If the earth compacted In this way Is dry enough for cultivation, it will fall apart when the hand Is opened. This teat Is ap plicable only to comparatively heavy soils, but it Is these which receive the most injury if they are worked when wet. On such soils overzeaious gardeners not only waste their time, but frequently do actual damage by attempting to work them too early. After plowing or working with a spade, it is usually desirable to apply some form of fertilizer. Barnyard or stable manure, which furnishes both plant food and humus, is undoubtedly the best, and applications of from twenty to thirty tons to the acre are satisfactory. The manure should bo distributed evenly over the. surface and ' later worked In with a hoe and rake. Frequently it is advisable also to apply commercial fertilizer, especially phos phate. An application of 300 to 600 pounds of acid phosphate to tbe acre Is usually sufficient, in order to sup ply potash, if this is needed, un bleached wood ashes may be distribut ed over the garden at the rate of 1,000 BUSH OF COAL KILLS MINER Malianoy City, March 17. Caught under collapsing timber that had been weakened by a blast, Joseph Neskey, thirty-five years old, was buried by a Caire of the Wr| Villi jjll (// Personal Responsibility v\ [l/ 11 /1 (Ifi\l////l( til If you look like a frump don't blame Ba| Ij / I j| 111 it// 110 your mirror or bewail your luck. 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Post Office State Street and No. ......... „ . - , f R.D.Pratt Specialist I 26 N. Third Street (Schleisner Building) i The very latest and finest instruments used in optometry enables ine to accurately determine any visual imperfections of the eyes without tho use of "eye drops," und without discomfort or fatigue to the patient. Dimness of vision, eyeache, headache, nervous ness and eyestrain nre quickly remedied and overcome with glasses properly fitted. SATISFACTORY SERVICE at the samo reasonable prices that prevailed at my former location. - ——-J Coal Prices Going Up Better lay In your winter's supply now while -V &rt- l°w prices prevail. Jf you wait much longer, you'll have to pay ! " \ Jai' Jtemember your pockctbook is your betit J. B. MONTGOMERY THIRD AND CHESTNUT STS. , Bell Phone 600 C. V. 4321 pounds to the acre. Wet, or leached ashes, have less fertilizer value. Two thousand pounds of these should be used. In order to start the plants early in tile sprint,' applications of 100 pounds to the acre of nitrate of soda are sometimes used. It is Import ant, however, to remember that no form of commercial fertilizer will yield good i-esults unless the sofil Is well supplied with humus. This frequently may be furnished in the form of sod or other vegetation which has over grown a garden spot and may De turned under with a plow or spade. In certain localities it is also advis able to test the soli for acidity. Na turally moist soils are likely to be I;J:J is> ::i nu." a joon u aiv net crops. The test for acidity or sour ness is a very simple one. A handful' of the soil slightly moistened and a piece of blue litmus paper, which can be obtained from any drug store, are all that is necessary. When placed on sour soil the paper will turn red. To correct such a condition lime should' be used. The ground should be cov ered with a thin coat of air-slacked lime and the latter worked in well, iilme is not a plant food, but it will correct the acidity and will improve the physical' condition of the soil. rush of coal at East Bear Ridge col liery and suffocated to death. The body was not recovered for several hours. A wife and three children sur vive him. 5
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