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 >- FARLY THIS SSI I \ i* Li 2 * fA 1 * TJ ILLPKK THFM MORN I MQT an evening auto drive, and Smith dutifully telephoned Maxwell, the railroad superintendent, and borrow ed a runabout. 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 . 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>