iiSi Reading and all ike farcviki |PHI | The Real || I Man ; | By . i; : FRANCIS LYNDE | ► < ► || 1 < * i ► o I ► 4> I► 4 > I ► O I► i > 1 ' II II i II I IHiitritloii by ItWIN HTERS I t '[ * &♦♦♦♦♦+♦•♦•♦♦♦♦♦<% Copyright by Clug. Scribuer's So as (Continued) "I didnt think that of you, John; I sure didn't. Why, that's what you might call a low-down, tin-horn sort of game." "It is just that, and I know it as well as you do. But it's the price I have to pay for my few days or grace. Miss Richlander knows the Stantons; they've made it their bust- 1 ness to get acquainted with her. One word from her to Crawford Stanton, and a wire from him to my home town in the middle West would sec tie me." The old man straightened himself in his chair, and his steel-gray eyes blazed suddenly. "Break away from 'em, John!" he urged. "Break it off short, and let 'em all do their worst! Away along at the first, Williams and I both said you wasn't a crooked crook, and I'm believing it yet. When it comes to the show-down we'll all fight for you,; and they'll have to bring a derrick along if they want to snatch you out of the Timanyoni. You go over yon der to the Hophra House and tell that young woman that the briddle s off. and she can talk all she wants to!" j "No," said Smith shortly. "I know what I am doing, and I shall go on ! as I have begun. It's the only way. Matters are desperate enougtt with i us now, and if I should drop out—" The telephone bell was ringing and Baldwin twisted his chair to brin himself within reach of the desk set.' The message was a brief one, and at its finish the ranchman-president was frowning heavily. "By Jupiter! it does seem as if the bad luck all comes in a bunch!" he! protested. "Williams was rushing i things just a little too fast, and | they've lost a whole section of the dam by stripping the forms before the concrete was set. That puts us hack another twenty-four hours, at : least. Don't that beat the michief?" I Smith reached for his hat. "It's six , o'clock," he said; "and Williams' form-strippers have furnished one more reason why I shouldn't keep Miss Richlander waiting for her din- I ner." And with that he cut the talk short and went his way. With a blank evening before her. Miss Richlander, making the tete-a- dinner count for what it would, i tightened her hold upon the one man available, demanding excitement. Nothing else offering, she suggested Fashions of To-Day - By May Manton fOF course you will like this dress because it shows the barrel effect without exaggeration. It is of the sim ple one-piece sort that is easy to adjust and it gives very smart lines. If you want it for afternoon occasions, you can copy it in silk, taffeta or char meuse or pongee. If you want it for morning, you can copy it in linen or in handkerchief lawn or in gingham and the ginghams are exceedingly smart this season. For afternoon wear, some women will like the bell-shaped sleeves, and they are very pretty as well as very fashionable. Here, one material is used throughout but a still different effect could be obtained by making the lower part of the skirt and the trimming of a striped material and the blouse and upper part of the skirt of a plain one, or, you could use f*j 4} 1\ the skirt, the collar and cuffs YUJ V vo^e to match the pre & sKtV V dominating color for blouse and t UTIW u PP er portion of skirt. J | |A For the medium size will be - needed, 4% yards of material TVI J | 36 inches wide with % yard 36 /A \ 9420 1 L for the trimming. \ \ 1 I The pattern No. 9420 is cut ><s in sizes from 34 to 44 inches bust measure. It will be mailed #420 Coat Dress with Straight Lower to any address by the Fashion Edge. 34 to 44 bust. Department of this paper, on Pnce 15 Cents. receipt of fifteen cents. 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Smith drove the borrowed run about in sober silence, and the glor ious beauty In the seat beside him did not try to make him talk. Per haps she, too, was busy with thoughts of her own. At all events, when Smith had helped her out of the car at the hotel entrance and had seen her as far as the elevator, she thank ed him half absently and took his excuse, that he must return the run about to Maxwell's garage, without laying any further commands upon him. Just as he was turning away, a bell boy came across from the clerk's desk with a telegram for Miss Rich lander. Smith had no excuse for lin gering. but with the air thick with threats he made the tipping of the boy answer for a momentary stop gap. Miss Verda tore the envelope open and read the inclosure with a fine-lined little frown coming and go ing between her eyes. "It's from Tucker Jibbey," she said glancing up at Smith. "Someone has told him where we are, and he is fol lowing us. He says he'll be here on the evening train. Will you meet him and tell him I've gone to bed?" At the mention of Jibbey. the money-spoiled son of the man who stood next to Josiah Rinchlander in the credit ratings, and Lawrence ville's best imitation of a financier. Smith's first emotion was one of re lief at the thought that Jibbey would at least divide time with him in the entertainment of the bored beauty; then he remembered that Jibbey had once considered him a rival, and that the sham "rounder's" presence in Brewster would constitute a menace more threatening than all the others put together. "I can't meet Tucker," he said bluntly. "You know very well I can't." "That's so," was the quiet reply. "Of course you can't. What will you do when he comes?—run away?" "No; I can't do that either. I shall keep <yit of his way, if I can. If he finds me and makes any bad breaks, he'll get what's coming to him. If he's worth anything to you, you'll put him on the stage in the morning and send him up into the mountains to join your father." "The Idea!" she laughed. "He's not coming out here to see father. Poor Tucker! If he could only know what he is in for!" Then: "It is beginning to look as if you might have to go stiil deeper in debt to me, Montague. There is one more thing I'd like to do before I leave Brewster. If I'll prom ise to keep Tucker away from you, will you drive me out to the Bald wins' to-morrow afternoon? I want to see the colonel's fine horses, and he has invited me, you know." Smith's eyes darkened. "There is a limit, Verda, and you've reached it," he said quickly. "If the colonel jnvited you to Hill crest, x it was because you didn't leave him any chance not to. I resign in favor of Jibbey," and with that he handed her into the waiting elevator and said, "good-night." On the day following the hindering concrete failure at the dam, Smith gave still more color to the charges of his detractors in the business field. Those whose affairs brought them in contact with him found a man sud denly grown years older and harder, boody and harshly dictatorial, not to say quarrelsome: a man who seemed to have parted, in the short space of a single night, with all of the hu manizing affabilities which he had shown to such a marked degree in the reorganizing and refinancing of the irrigation project. "We've got our young Napoleon of finance on the toboggan slide, at last," was the way in which Mr. Crawford Stanton phrased it for the bejeweled lady at their luncheon in the Hophra cafe. "Kinzie Is about to throw him over, and all this talk about botch-work on the dam is get ting his goat. They're telling it around town this morning that you can't get near him without risking a fight. Old Man Backus went up to his office in behalf of a bunch of the scared stockholders, and Smith abused him first and then threw him out bodily—hurt him pretty savage ly, they say." The large lady's accurately pen ciled eyebrows went up in mild sur prise. "Bad temper?" she queried. "Bad temper, or an acute attack of 'rattleitis'; you can take your choice. I suppose he hasn't, by any chance, quarreled with Miss Richlander over-night?—or has he?" The fat lady shook her diamonds. "I should say not. They were at luncheon together in the ladies' ordi nary as I came down a few minutes ago." Thus the partner of Crawford Stan ton's joys and sorrows. But an invis ible onlooker in the small dining room above stairs might have drawn other conclusions. Smith and the daughter of the Lawrenceville mag nate had a small table to themselves, and if the talk were not precisely quarrelsome, it leaned that way at times. "I have never seen you quite so brutal and impossible as you are to day, Montague. You don't seem like the same man. Are you going to re consider and take me out to the Baldwin ranch this afternoon?" (To Bo Continued) Daily Dot Puzzle •21 •20 .19 is .21- •*. 7 % # • 12 • 9 23 * • < . 7 . 4 *5 % e 25 24 .3 -' •: * 40 58. 27 | • .4) 37. 26 •42 36. 29 • 43 3o M S> . 34 . . 33 HARJUSBURG 4SS& TELEGRAPH MANAGEMENT OF HOME DESIRABLE Every Housewife Can Easily Learn Proper Way to Do Things A house well managed becomes a home, a place of comfort and cheer. The housewife who understands the scientific management of her home is not a slave to her duties, but has plenty of time for recreation and for the following of any pursuits in which she may be interested. To have a place for everything and a particular time each day for the performing of certain tasks lessens the work and the time required for its completion. Every housewife can acquire the knowledge necessary to successfully manage her household along scientific and economical lines if she will but devote a few minutes each day to the study of home man agement. The Lincoln Correspondence Schools course In home management, which is one of the six practicable courses now being offered its subscribers by this paper, full particulars of which will be found elsewhere in this edition, teaches the scientific man agement and care of every accessory in the home —the planning of each loom, the proper arrangement of furniture required to give character, I expression and individuality to the j home, the decoration of walls, what I to use and what not to use, the color schemes and choice of draperies. The lessons are most practicable and deal with the essential everyday details of successful housekeeping. They teach economy without sacri fice of home comfort or loss of efficiency. It does not require so much money to make a room com j fortable and attractive if you know how to arrange it, and work is neither half so long nor so hard if I you know how to do it. Departments Issues Tips on Fighting Farm Pests A number of insects have a fond ness for muskmelon vines now, says to-day's bulletin from the National Emergency Food Garden Commis sion, and usually the gardener must fight them to secure a good crop. The aphides, or plant lice, are the most ruinous muskmelon pests. If the vines are allowed to become badly infested with these bugs they cannot be saved. The only thing to do is to pull the vines and burn them. Aphides are sucking insects; there fore the nicotine sulphate spray should be used to kill them. If ap plied before the lice gain a head way you can exterminate them. If one good application does not de stroy all the aphides, repeat when ever necessary. Aphides can readily be detected by the crumpled appear ance of the plant leaves. Beetles common to the cucumber vines are also found on muskmelons. The striped beetle, the spotted cu cumber bettle, and the flea bettle are combated in the identical way. Ar senate of lead spray mixed in with bordeaux mixture is effective against all these bugs. This mixture can be sprayed on your vines as a preven tive to bug invasion, or as* soon as tho bugs appear. Tobacco dust will also kill bettles. If the first application does not de stroy them, a second one can be ap plied in ten days without Injury to the plants. The squash vine borer —a worm which bores into the vine at the sur face of the ground—is hard to kill out. Cut the stem lengthwise to re move the borer. Be sure to kill these worms. Throw earth over the vines every few feet so that new roots may form on the vines. Muskmelons are subject to the two most common diseases of the vegetable garden—leaf blight and anthracnose. Leaf blight shows small dark spots on the leaves and can be cured with spraying of bor deaux., Dark spots on the leaves with long, light brown spots on the melons themselves tell the presence of anthracnose. Use the bordeaux spray for this also and repeat the application every two weeks while the disease remains. • WHY NOT AM; PRESS ALIKE? Why not a civilian uniform as a measure of economy in clothing? suggests a Canton, Ohio, man. It could be worn by everyone, man, woman and child, and thus elimi nate foolish dressing, the dude, and the spending of hundreds of thou sands of dollars on needless finery. It would certainly bring home to the civilian population their part In the war. and the ladles would need to apologize no longer for appearing twice In the same dress. As the re sult of Investigation carried on by the Ohio man, a standardized suit of wool of excellent quality could be sold for less than twenty dollars.— Popular Science Monthly "The Insider" By Virginia Terhune Van de Water i CHAPTER LXII Copyright, 1917, Star Company. Before I could answer my com panion's question there was a blind ing flash of lightning and another clap of thunder. The wind increased with such violence that it almost took my breath away. "Oh," I gasped, "let me go in alone! He may not like it if" Hugh Parker laid a strong hand on my wrist. "What do you mean?" he asked hoarsely. "What right has he to object to your being here with me?" "No right—yet," I quavered, "but he wants —I mean—l half-prom ised" "You mean," Hugh questioned sternly, "that you love him!" "No—no!" I protested. "I don't love him —but—X have told him that." Someone was hurrying along the veranda toward us. My companion seized my arm as a gust of rain struck us in our faces and ran with me to the steps at the top of which my employer stood. "Elizabeth! Parker!" Brewster Norton exploded. "What does this mean? Where have you been?" He carried an electric torch, and as he flashed it upon us I was pain fully conscious that I wore a loose negligee, and that my hair was tossed by the wind. I was glad taht I had wrapped about me the shawl that Hugh had brought out to me a few minutes ago. "It was so hot upstairs that I came ifr $5 Suit Sale Wednesday June 18 to 25 || I ————————— OECOND in the work of | ! On Wednesday Morning Promptly at r Indeed the importance of this | 8.30 A. M. We Will Place on Sale I President of the United States I I I . has set apart this week of I IOC WOMEH'S CM ART n HTH QlTn\ > 1 OO& MISSES' Olu/llVi LLUirl JUIIO selfish generosity. He has I j | ! , . also commissioned several of ' # " the ablest businessmen of the I Suits Cftft Sllits country as a war council for I the Red Cross to administer 1 "Wllicll /Mr NOW OH t ' l ' s serv ' ce on behalf of a stricken world. Formerly AT, jr jpm, y Display in th ™ s S c ' > ?old For ft V Our Win- £&* s °" t 1 f $12.50, tyf * l\dows. None i^£,r ct ,hc mos< , I $15.00, (// f 11 Sold Until J SIB.OO and 11 H J Wednesday. I and we feel certain that the I J OH \IL iwnw Bf T? 11 Tl amount will be forthcoming. .UU J3B& B X Uli 1/0- Here indeed, is a summons to \ , • Id a. *1 every citizen of Harrisburg to Choice Jy tails m Ido their part in helping to I f , Wednesday This Paper true, it is a large sum of I J money for Harrisburg to 1 | For asr Tomorrow w"Va ' r ing that or any other sum of ' 1 SPECIAL NOTE—Summer Closing Hours lieve the suffering of our sons I j Beginning July 2nd and Continuing During July and arefiJhSSJforTufiTiSj 1 August the Store Will Close Daily at 5 P. M. —Saturdays I life worth living. I % inn HJV Be a Backer —Do not be a ( I at yr. M. SLACKER of the Red Cross I n w* |i w* 1* 1 rpi | jv • an< i when the committee calls j , summer Hair-Holidays on Inursdays During ° n j ou *• Th„r><uy, < JULY and AUGUST j j ously as you possibly can. | # down to get cool," I explained, my teeth chattering, "and Mr. Parker happened to get here just before the storm broke." At Hillcrest one light in the lower hall was always left burring at night, and by its gleam through the open door I saw that my employer was very pale. I was sure that he was angry, but his self-control was phe nomenal. "I see," he said dryly. "And where is Tom?" "He went indoors some time past," Hugh Parker said. "I took a walk after he left me. And I saw Miss I Dart sitting there on the bench as 1 j crossed the orchard, and 1, too, | stopped to get cool and watch the j storm rise. Shall we go in? We arc | all three getting wet." I envied him his calm bearing. He had nothing to be ashamed of. I re flected quickly, so he was not afraid. He Looks Old "That's so, we are," Brewster Nor ton agreed, with an effort to speak naturally. "It appears that most of the family are awake. Mrs. Gore called out to me just now to be sure to shut all the windows—as if that were not the very thing that I came down stairs for." I noticed as he spoke how old he looked without a collar. He had slipped on his trouser? and dress ing gown over his pajamas, leav ing his neck exposed in front. I saw as never before the flabby and wrinkled skin at the throat, the sure sign of departed youth. Yet he JUNE 18, 1917. was only forty-six. It was the con trast with Hugh's buoyant vitality that made him seem older. "Did you Just come downstairs?" I asked suddenly. "Yes," he replied. "Why?" "I thought I heard you open the screen door fifteen minutes ago," I said. "I heard It creak. "Probably It was not latched, and the wind opened It," Hugh opined. "As it is evident that everybody is in the house, it is also evident that nobody came out." "Perhaps," I said, giggling nerv ously, "somebody came into the house." ish jest and with the intention of making myself appear at ease. I was to recall them later. "That's obviously absurd," the master of the house declared tartly. "Hark —what a rain! The backbone of the drought is certainly broken." Then, as I shivered, he said politely, but rather stiffly, "If I might sug gest, Miss Dart, It would be wise for you to get upstairs and remove your damp clothing. You stayed outside long enough to get plentifully sprinkled." "I will go at once," I said eagerly. I had wanted to run away, yet had stood embarrassed, wondering how I could make my escape. I never thought of pleading Grace's possible need of me. All my tact had deserted me. "Good-night, Mr. Norton. Good night, Mr. Parker!" I murmured. "Good-night!" Hugh said. I held out my hand to him, and he took it in his cool, firm clasp as he might have taken the hand of a man. The clasp quieted my twitch ing nerves. Yet, as I saw his grave face I wondered if he had realy said he loved me. And. as I wondered, I knew I would not part with the memory of hts words for any price. "Good night!" Mr. Norton said, as I started toward the stairs. My cheeks flamed as I realized that my thoughts had been so busy that I had forgotten to shake hands with my employer. "Oh, —good night!" I stammered again, tryipg to laugh. "I forgot that I had not shaken hands with you!" His grip hurt my Angers, and there was a disagreeable gleam in his eyes. Although he, too, laughed, there was no amusement In the sound. "Oh, I would not let you forget!" he rejoined, harshly. "You may be very sure of that." I almost snatched my hand from him, and ran upstairs. At the first landing I paused and looked down. My employer had turned away to lock the front door, but Hugh Parker stood where I had left him. As I paused, he raised his eyes and they met mine. Although his look was calm and reassuring, I fancied that I saw also an ex pression of perplexity on his face. I would not look again, but went on up to my room. That night I rlreamed of two men —the one to whom T had given a half-promise to which he had said lie would hold me. and the other, who had told me he loved me, but who had demanded no promise from me. To Be Continued CHEW ED UP EACH TEAR Loud and long are the complaints of the stringency of the times and the wails concerning the tightness of money; but these laments are not coming from the manufacturers of chewing gum. Neither the war nor any other calamity has affected the output of this great necessity, says the Popular Science Monthly. The annual imports of chewing gum average about 7,000,000 popnds, al though in 1913 the average reached nearly 14,000,000 pounds. Thus tt is estimated that $13,000,000 are chew ed up annually. 5
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