16 "The Insider" By Virginia Terhune Van de Water CHAPTER XXXI about some things before I go back Mr. Norton had left the house the *° school," he replied sulkily. "And following day long before Grace and po £ lo'my own I came down stairs. Recently Mrs. father, haven't I?" Gore had formed the habit of break- "He is not away on pleasure," fasting with her brother-in-law. But Mrs. Gore said severely. "A man this morning she was not in the has to give his flrst attention to dining room. business, please remember." "Why did aim tie get her break- "Not always," the boy retorted, fast upstairs? Is she sick?" Grace At least in father's case, family queried. sometimes comes before business — "No, Miss Grace; but Mr. Norton that is a part of the family does!" sent word to her by Maggie that he The words sounded like a threat must see her before he left, so she or a taunt. X was astounded at came down to the library to see their effect upon the widow. The him. And after he d gone she went little color she had in her cheeks back upstairs —she felt the need of faded: her eyes looked out blackly some coffee, and Maggie brought it from her white face, up to her with a bit of toast. She "j shall report you to your father, paid that was all she wanted this Tom. if you speak like that again!" morning. But she's not sick." she declared, her voice tense with The widow herself reiterated this emotion, assertion when Grace and I went "Of course you. will!" Tom mut into her room later in the morning, tered. "It won't he the first time "I am quite well," she insisted, either!" "but 1 did not happen to be hungry i was surprised at the transfor at breakfast-time." mation in the boy's manner. Could I noticed that she appeared ner- this be the genial. light-hearted Ttrns and that her hands trembled young fellow of last night? The as she tried to knit. evening and all its happenings seem "Why did Daddy go away without ed to have faded from his memory, bidding me good-by ?" Grace de- And Mrs. Gore had so far forgotten manded. the dinner and theater party of less "He had to leave before yon were than twenty-four hours ago that she op darling." Mrs. Gore said. had asked no questions about them. "I explained to you, dear," I in- What was behind all this disturb terposed. "that your father told Tom ance, this exchange of acrid and me last night that he had to take speeches? What was the business an early train this morning." matter about which Tom felt so "But where was he going?" Grace bitter? And, if Mrs. Gore carried persisted. I out her threat and reported Tom's "To Connecticut," Mrs. Gore said, impertinence to his father, would briefly. Brewster Norton reconsider his "Connecticut!" Grace exclaimed, plans about Hugh Parker's coming "Oh, Auntie, has he gone to Hill- to Hillcrest this summer? crest?" # These questions weighed upon me "No, dear —he has not." until I became so uneasy that, with- I saw that the matron was em- out pausing to consider whether I barrassed, and I suggested to Grace was doing what was prudent or not. that she and I go upstairs and be- I went up to Tom's room towards gin her lessons. Why should Mrs. the latter part of the afternoon and Gore look disturbed because her j knocked upon his door. 1 had heard brother-in-law had gone to Connec- | him lock himself in an hour ago. ticut? "What is it?" he called gruffly. Tom, too, seemed unusually per- ! "it's I, Tom—Miss Dart." i an turbed when, at luncheon that noon,: swered softly. "1 want to speak to Grace spoke of her father's trip. ; you." "I supposed that was where he'd The door was opened quickly, gone," he muttered as the child The lad stood before me, face flushed, named Mr. Norton's destination. j hair mussed. He had evidently Mrs. Gore spoke sternly: "I do i been lying down. I put my hand on not know why you say that," she re- his arm. proved. "Your father goes to many "Tom," I said gently, "play 1 am other places on business." your sister and tell me what's the "Tom!" Mrs. Gore's exclamation matter." was a strange mingling of warning "Enough's the matter!" he ex and appeal. She glanced in my direc- claimed. "I lost my temper with tion. as if to remind her nephew that that—with Aunt Adelaide —(I sup he was indiscreet to speak so plain- pose I've got to call her that! and ly in my presence. The lad's face now she'll go whining to father darkened; but he obeyed for a while ' about me, and I'll be sent away her implied warning and said no this summer. Tou see if I'm not!" more until luncheon was over. Then, j "Tom," I pleaded "come down when he rose from the table, he ask- into the library and talk with me a ed a blunt question. ; bit. Grace is in her aunt's room "When is father coming back?*' j just now, and lam disengaged. Will "I do not know," his aunt said.! you come?" "This evening, I supose. Why doj "Yes," he agreed shamefacedly you ask?" j and swallowing hard—"l'll come." "Because I want to talk to him | (To be Continued) | HOW DOES YOUR | Samuel Armstrong Hamilton M*e, of course, relish the very first tender green crops from our own gardens, especially those who are doing gardening for the first season, such as the green onion, snip lettuce and the first early radish; but the acme of our enjoyment is reached •when we take the first mouthful of tender, melting srreen peas, grown by our own efforts in our own little Daily Dot Puzzle t} „ 2 . 4 25 2 ' W *27 ✓ .28 :: - '8 , 5 .3o 11. • 17 . * (0. . . • . 1 12 '3 51 •2. • •9 32 •3 33 • 4- •0 •fc • 7 34# .5 3b 45* 38 * 35 ' 44 37 ,v ,4 ' t V Compensation Act Blanks For the convenience of law yers and Email corporations vre have arranged in book form a quantity of Accident Blanks sufficient for a year's supply. Sent to any address on receipt of price, 11.00. The Telegraph Printing Co. Printing, Binding, Designing, Photo Engraving, Die Stamp ing, Plate Printing HARRISBURG, PA. . FRIDAY EVENING. garden—especially if they are just a little bit nicer than those of our competing neighbor. Planting Earl)' Varieties Then let us ha%e a good row of garden peas; the dwarf ones for first early, the half dwarf for second and the tall ones for main crop. These with succession planting will give peas to eat from the time the tirst ones are ready to pick in sixtv to sixty-five days until the heat of sum mer makes their growth impractic able. To get the fine results we desire 1 with garden peas they must have a mellow, loamy soil, well tilled with humus and enriched with well-rot ted manure dug in the trench, and the situation must be one which will drain well, so no peas of any kind known to our gardens will do well in soggy or swampy soil, even though they require a large supply of water. Aa one gardener put it, "They will not stand wet feet." Of the early peas we have two classes—the round-seeded and the wrinkled. The former are from three days to a week earlier than the lat ter, and are more hardy. However, most persons consider the wrinkled ones so much finer in flavor that thev are willing to await the few davs necessary to get them. The wrinkled peas (those which have a wrinkled seed) are sweeter, have more sugar in their composition and rot more easily than the hard-seeded round ones, on which account the latter may be planted first. I would advise the beginner to await until the soil is well drained, mellow and easily worked, and then plant the wrinkled peas lor first early unless his space is large and he de sires to try both kinds. Garden peas should be planted in prepared drills. As the early peas are either dwarf or' half dwarf, there will be no need for supports to hold them. A good plan is to plant them three drills together, allowing the vines to mat together. This will pre vent the stalks of the dwarf ones falling down, which, especially in wet weather, may cause many of the pods to rot. The early peas, not having the large mass of roots that the later ones have, may be planted closer to gether. If you set three rows to gether make them six inches apart and the seeds two inches apart in the row. The half-dwarf, which may reach a height of thirty inches, may be planted in a double row, the same distance apart, and the vines matted together as soon as they throw out tentacles. This will obviate the nec essity for supports. The aim should be in growing peas to get them all cleared off the vines in not more than two pickings. Most of the seed offered tor sale to-day is of strains which have developed this quality under selection. This makes the space occupied by the early peas available for the use of later crops. Value of Soil Inoculation • If your garden is a new one; if it Is a suburban or city lot, and has never been planted to garden crops or grown with clover or other le guminous crops, it is just possible that the soil is sterile of nitrogen fixing bacteria and it will pay you to inoculate your seeds with a "culture" made by some reliable laboratory. This is not an expensive proposi tion, enough for an eighth of an acre costing but twenty-five cents, and can be had for all legume crops. It can be had from any liorist or seeds- The Scribb Family—They Live Here in Harrisburg—By Sullivan VIUEK Aft V(f LET'S GO fIUH? TO % PARK M*" ' ' . ) Going, HEBHSH.V AND Sn ON THE BENULy W! .% '' j f ) 1 WONDER Wllffi IW! IS THEPtS M\ n u^ ?misto s> online bench IjQgSlE^. ' iIN TWS W | man. When ordering it. say for -what kind of seeds it is desired. Full di rections for use will come with it. It will insure better peas and more of them if rightly used. On account of the nodules containing nitrogen fixing bacteria on their roots, never pull up pea vines. Cut them off and allow the roots to remain in the soil. Garden peas should have frequent cultivation and be kept free from weeds. The late ones will do best if | mulched when the days get warm.' in order to keep the roots cool. Any , strawy litter will do for the mulch ing. Put it on and between the rows and waier freely. It will also keep down the weeds. There are a number of materials used for suporting pea vines. The original one was "brush," the twig gy branches of young trees. This is still by far the best, but difficult to get except in certain localities where there is plenty of young timber. This has brought about the use of poul try wire petting with a wide mesh, and probably this ranks next best. The use of strings, run from poles and brackets, is a rather poor way to support the vines. When brush is used the rows can not be so close together as when netting is used. With brush a good way is to plant the rows eighteen inches apart and set the brush be tween them, making a double row. The next row should be set three feet from the first, and another double row formed and continue thus. As space is generally limited and brush scarce for the home garden it will be well to make provision to use wire netting. It is a good plan to set the netting even wih the ground so that the first tendrils of the pea vines can attach themselves to it. Best V arieties to Plant There are many varieties of gar den peas put out from time to time by various firms. Many of them to the layman seem to be the same, and doubtless there are some being marketed under different names which are similar. However, there are a number of well-known varie ties in first and second early, main crop and late which have been well tried out and found to be good and it will pay the beginner to tie to these. , The earliest, where the soil is dry and weather settled, are the round seeded. Of these Electric, Alaska. Prolific, Pilot are all Rood and dwarf and may be sown thickly as outlined above, to be removed later on for following crops. Good wrinked peas dwarf and extra early are American Wonder, Extra Early Gradus, Thos. Laxton, Premium Gem, Little Mar vel, Nott's Excelsior and Blue Ban tam. For second early there are the half-dwarf and the taller. Of the former, good ones are Stratagem, Senator, McLean's Advancer, Hors ford's Market Garden, Yorkshire Hero, Carter's Daisy and British Wonder. Of the taller second early, many prefer some of the following: Telephone (extra good), Early Morn and Laxton's Evolution. For the late varieties plant any of the following good sorts: Boston Un rivaled, Alderman and Champion of England. These grow from four to five feet high, and are very prolific bearers of good quality peas. Many of our best gardeners do not plant the late peas, but instead plant small successive 'ots of the taller early sorts so as to have a crop com ing on each week during the sea son. This is a good plan for the be ginner. There is a kind of pea which is not as generally grown and used as It should be, both on the score of ecen omy and quality. They are known as "Sugar Peas," and are eaten, pod and all, when the young peas are about half developed. There are two good varieties —a iwarf, Grey Sugar, and a taller one, Mammoth Melting Sugar. - HARRISBURG SSiB& TELEGRAPH © NAN of ® MUSIC MOUNTAIN By frank tl. Spearman Author of 'Whisperiivg Smittv - . COP/RIOHT V CKABtCS SOUBKttJ .'MS (Continued.) "He wants to be. your friend," rc-! turned Nan, determined not to give up. Duke looked at her uncompromis- j ingly. "That man can't ever be any! friend of mine understand that! He can't ever marry you. If he ever tries to. so help me God, I'll killj him if I hang for it. I know his! game. I know what he wants. He 1 doesn't care a pinch of snuff for you. j He thinks he can hit me a blow by l getting you away from me." . "Nothing could be further from i the truth," exclaimed Nan hopeless- i iy- Duke struck the table a smashing, blow with his fist. "I'll show Mr. De I Spain and his friends where they! get off." "Uncle Duke, if you won't listen ; to reason, you must listen to sense. I Think of what a position you put me in. I love you for all your care j of me. I love him for his affection ; for me and consideration of me—! because he knows how to treat a! woman. I know he wouldn't harm! a hair of your head, for my sake, yet j you talk now of bloodshed between | you two. I know what your words! mean—that one, of you, or both ofj you, are to be killed for a senseless j feud. He will not stand up and let, any man shoot him down \i*ithout: resistance. If you lay your blood on j his head, you know it would put a i stain between him and me that never could be washed out as long as we j lived. If you kill him I could never; stay here with you. His blood would cry out every day and night against I you." Duke's violent finger shot out at her. "And you're the gal I took from your mammy and promised I'd bring up a decent woman. You've got none of her blood in you—not a drop. You're the brat of that minc ing brother of mine, that was al ways riding horseback and showing off in town while I was weeding the tobacco beds." Nan clasped her hands. "Don't blame me because I'm your broth er's child. Blame me because I'm a woman, because X have a heart, be cause I want to live and see you live, and to see suspicion, distrust, feuds, alarms, and worse. I'm not ungrateful, as you plainly say I am. I want you to get out of what you are in here—l want to be out of it. I'd rather be dead now than to live and die in it. And what is this anger all for? Nothing. He offers you his friendship—" She could speak no further. Her uncle, with a curse, left her alone. When she arose in the early morning he had already gone away. CHAPTER XIX. A Try-Out. Sleepy Cat is not so large a place that one would ordinarily have much trouble in finding a man in It If he searched well. But Duke Morgan drove into town next morn ing and had to stay for three days waiting for a chance to meet De Spain. Duke was not a man to talk much when he had anything of moment to put through and he had left home determined, before he came back, to tinish for good with his enemy. De Spain himself had been putting off for weeks every business that would bear putting off, and had been forced at length to run down to Medicine Bend to buy horses. Nan, after her uncle left home—justly apprehensive of his intentions made frantic efforts to get word to De Spain of what was impending. She could not telegraph—a publicity that she dreaded would have fol lowed at once. De Spain had ex pected to be back in two days. Such a letter as she could have sent would not reach him at Medicine Bend. As it was. a distressing amount of talk did attend Duke's efforts to get track of De Spain. Sleepy Cat had but one interpretation for his inqui ries—and a tight, if one occurred between these two men, it was con ceded, would be historic in the an nals of the town. Its anticipation was food for all of the rumors of three days of suspense. For the town they were three days of thrill ing expectation; for Js'an isolated, without a confidant, not knowing what to do or which way to turn, they were the three bitterest days of anxiety she had ever known. Desperate with suspense at the close of the second day—wild for a scrap of news, yet dreading one —she saddled her pony and rode alone into Sleepy Cat after night fall to meet the train on which De Spain had told her he would re turn from the east. She rode straight to the hospital, instead of going to the livery barn, and leav ing her horse, got supper and walked byway of unfrequented streets downtown to the station to wait for the train. When the big train drew slowly, almost noiselessly, in, Nan took her place where no incoming passenger could escape her gaze and waited for De Spain. ' But when all the ar rivals had been accounted for, he had not come. She turned. heavy-hearted, to walk back uptown, trying to think of whom she might seek somo in formation concerning De Spain's whereabouts, when her eye fell on a man standing not ten feet away at the door of the baggage room. He was alone and seemed to be watching the changing of the en gines, but Nan thought she knew him by sight. The rather long, straight, black hair under the broad-brimmed hat marked the man known and hated in the gap as "the Indian." Here, she said to herself, was a chance. De Spain, she recall ed, spoke of no one oftener than this man. He seemed wholly disen gaged. Repressing her nervous timidity Nan walked over to him. "Aren't you Mr. Scott?" she asked abruptly. Scott, turning to her, touched his hat as if quite unaware until that moment of her existence. "Did Mr. De Spain get off this trala?" she | asked, as Scott acknowledged his identity. "I guess he didn't come to-night," Nan noticed the impassive manner of his speaking and the low, even tones. "I was kind of looking for him myself." "Is there another train to-night he could come on?" ,"I don't think he will be back now before to-morrow night." Nan, much disappointed, looked up the line and down. "I rode in this afternoon from Music mountain es pecially to see him." Scott, without commenting, smiled with understanding and encourage ment, and Nan was so filled with anxiety that she welcomed a chance to talk to somebody. "I've often heard him speak of you," she ven tured, searching the dark eyes, and watching the open, kindly smile characteristic of the man. Scott put his right hand out at his side. "I've ridden with that boy since he was so high." "I know he thinks everything of you." "I think a lot of him." "You don't know me?" she said tentatively. His answer concealed all that was necessary. "Not to speak to, no." "I am Nan Morgan." "I know your name pretty well," he explained; nothing seemed to dis turb his smile. "And I came in—because I was worried over something and want ed to see Mr. De Spain." "He is buying horses north of Medicine Bend. The rainstorm yes terday likely kept him back some. 1 don't think you need worry much over anything though." "I don't mean I• am worrying about Mr. De Spain at Medicine Bend," disclaimed Nan with a trace of embarrassment. "I know what you mean," smiled Bob Scott. She regarded him ques tioningly. He returned her gaze re assuringly as if he was confident of his ground. "Did your pony come along all right after you left the foothills this afternoon?" Nan opened her eyes. "How did you know I came through the foot hills?" "I was over that way to-day." Something in the continuous smile enlightened her more than the word. "I noticed your pony went lame. You stopped to look at his foot." "You were behind me," exclaim ed Nan. "I didn't see you," he countered prudently. She seemed to fathom something from the expression of his face. "You couldn't have known I was coming in," she said quickly. "No," He paused. Her eyes seem ed to invite a further confidence. "Hut after you started it would be a pity if any harm came to you on the road." "You knew Uncle Duke was in town?" Scott nodded. "Do you know why I came?" "I made a guesß at It. I don't think you need worry over any thing.'' N "Did you follow me down from the hospital to-night?" "I was coming from my house after supper. I only kept close enough to you to be handy." "Oh, I understand. And you are very kind. I don't know what to do now." "Go back to the hospital for'the night. I will send Henry De Spain up there just as soon as he comeg to town." "Suppose Uncle Duke sees him first. I am deathly afraid of their meeting." Even De Spain himself, when he came back the next night, seemed hardly able to reassure her. When she had told all her story, De Spain laughed at her fears. "I'll bring that man around, Nan, don't worry. Don't believe we shall ever fight. I may not be able to bring him around APRTL 27, 1017. to-morrow, or next week, but I'll do it. It takes two to quarrel, you know." (To Bo Continued.) Fashions of To-Day - By May Manton IT would be almost impos sible to find a handsomer or a more fashionable after tnoon costume than this. It is made of charmeuse with Geor gette crepe and trimmed with Paisley satin in rich and won derful coloring that is beautiful against the background of the dark blue, while the crepe is a pale grey. The skirt is one of the very new ones. It has a yoke effect at the front but is full length at the back and sides and you can make the bodice as it is here or with the over portion cut below the belt to form a peplum; treated in the latter way it is smart over a For the medium size the blouse will require, I x /i yards of material 44 inches wide and the over-portion I yard of the same width. For the skirt will be needed, 4 yards of material 44 inches wide with % yard 44 The May Manton pattern of the blouse No. 9339 is cut in sizes from 34 to 42 inches bust measure and of the skirt No. 9325 in sizes from 24 to 32 They will be mailed to any receipt of fifteen cents for each. I Able-bodied I men are LJ I Wanted • everywhere —in the army, the s I navy, on the farm, in the factory, the store, /Jf iff vim ' Heed the call, men, I\jWy ✓ u if you're capable of JrT/ doing a man's work. Vt Telegraph want ads §1 poi nt the way to 1 YOUR opportunity. U-BOATS TAKE HEAVIER TOLL Germans Greatly Increase Number of Ships Sunk Without Warning London. April 27. The weekly statement of vessels sunk as made public Wednesday, shows that forty vessels of more than 1,600 tons each were sent to the bottom by mines or submarines. The statement reads: "Weekly shipping: returns: Arrivals, 2,586; sailings, 2,621. "Sinkings by mine or submarine, more than 1,600 tons, forty. Including two sunk in the week ending April 16: less than 1,600 tons, fifteen, in eluding one sunk in the week ending April 1 "Vessels unsuccessfully attacked, twenty-seven, including one attacked the week ending April 8. "Fishing vessels sunk, nine, includ ing one sunk the week ending April The above report shows the greatest number of merchant vessels reported sunk by mine or submarine in both categories—l,6oo tons and over and under 1,600 tons—made public by the British Government wince it has is sued its weekly statement of shipping losses. Mrs. Clayton A. Smucker Heads Missionary Society Carlisle, Pa., April 27. At tlio closing session of the tenth annual meeting of the Women's Homo Mis sionary Society of the Harrisburg I district of the Methodist Church it i was decided to hold the next annual [gathering In the Camp Curtin Memorial Church, Harrisburg. Vari ous reports were presented at the meeting here to show the work of the organization during the past year. But few changes were made in the list of officers In the election held. Mrs. Clayton A. Smucker, Harris burg, again heads the society. Mrs. S. M. Gilman, of Harrisburg, was elected recording secretary: Mrs. S. D. Wilson, Harrisburg, children's de partment secretary: Mrs. Rononius, Harrisburg, temperance superinten dent; Mrs. J. W. Finton, Harrisburg, deaconess work superintendent: Mrs. i Jennie Burham, Waynerooro, super j intendent of Christian stewardship. CHARGED WITH STEALING Carlisle, Pa., April 21. Charged with stealing leather, prepared hides Land other material to the value of I several hundred dollars, John I Knouse, night watchman at the big plant of the Lindner Shoe Company, , has been arrested and is on bail awaiting a hearing. The charge was brought by I. E. Greenwood, treas urer of the concern. The alleged v thefts extend over a period of about lone year, officers here state.
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