16 HI c\ll ike i&rciik| lP§fj The Read! j Nan It | B y 1i! j; I FRANCIS LYNDE \\ '" t : 1>• < > 1> < > I ' I IllntT.tlon. by IRWIN HYERS I J! i: ' ' y Copyright by Chas. ScriLaer'a fioas (Continued) "Then I'll fill it for you. So far as I know—legally, you understand— this r'aid has never been authorized by the courts; at least, that is what I'm going to assume until the prop er papers have been served on me. Therefore I am free to strike one final blow for the colonel and his friends, and I'm going to do it, if I can dodge the police long enough to get action." Starbuck's tilting chair righted it self with a crash. "You've thought it all out?—just how to go at it?" "Every move; and everyone of them a straight bid for a second penitentiary sentence." "All right," said the mine owner briefly. "Count me in." "For information only," -was the brusque reply. "You have a stake in the country and a good name to maintain. I have nothing. But you can tell me a few things. Are our workmen still on the ground?" "Yes. Ginty said there were only a few stragglers who came to town with him. Most of the two shifts are staying on to get their pay—or un til they find out that they aren't go ing to get it." "And the colonel and Williams; the marshal is holding them out at the dam?'* "Uh-huh; locked up in the office shack, Ginty says." "Good. I shan't need the colonel, but I shall need Williams. Now an other question; you know Sheriff Harding fairly well, don't you? What sort of a man is he?" "Square as a die. and as nervy as they make 'em. When he gets a warrant to serve, he'll bring in his man, dead or alive." "That's all I'll ask of him. Now go and find me an auto, and then you can fade away and get ready to prove a good, stout alibi." "Yes—like fits I will!" retorted the mine owner. "I told you once, John, that I was in this thing to a / J \\ 1 Had gingered up his men j. \ / J \\ With good Sheboygan Ginger / j^ They'd not have marched dawn rmiiiiiTi —.—■— v —■— lEll First Aid to the IJ Thirsty s^s^j? mm Take this liquid goody with you on that Br / 1 Sm picnic—everybody will enjoy its liveliness ' and snap. Qheboygan Ginger Ale stands first among beverages every day. Piquant —rich with the flavor of fine ginger—sparkling- Serve it at home—take it with you if you're start ing for an outing—cool bottles, wrap in paper and they will stay cold. Served at leading fountains, hoteti, clubs, country clubs, cafes and on iining cars. Phone Your Grocer for a Case I I "Trnrm I Sheboygan Mineral Water Co.; Sheboygan; Wis. Have you tried ; 11 Sheboygan Root Beer and Sarsaparilla? Oil WITMAN BROTHERS Wholesale Distributors HARRISBCRG, PA. Use More Ice— Save More Food E urge our customers to get sufficient • *™ • ice in the morning to last until the next day's delivery. A large piece of ice will melt more slowly than a smaller one and therefore the larger piece is a real economy. The small investment of plenty of ice is far, far cheaper than spoiled food. Of course you see the ice bill, but you probably overlook the loss by garbage paid, doctor's bills and poor health. Just try using a larger quantity, you will be agreeably surprised at the result obtained, your fruits, vegetables and other food products may be kept longer and at the same time they are crisp and more nutritious and the season's ice bill will not be increased. United Tee & Coal Co. Forster & Cowden Sts. r FRIDAY EVENING, ~ 1 Bringing Up Father Copyright, 1917, International News Service By If J UNDE-RbTAND . TO KOOrv * AND "S OH' MA<4IE • BT <,OLLY-l\lt CIVFN EM I TO_<,IVEA *V\TAT\ONb ° N MX AND j I DID JONEb ONE OUT All (X n r tup veek-enopartv. TO EACH CUEvr HERE r—* ■ YOU TOLD AND TWO FOR L E I 1 -ZJ-- * t O<WVE ToinkiHT -■ t L 7 nE- HER FR, TWO I UU.-.! THEM OUT ) / C_LT ' CADE'S - V\AN/E Nfou • I ' finish, and I meant it. Go on giving your orders." "Very well; you've had your warning. The next thing is the auto. I want to catch Judge Warner be-1 fore he goes to bed. I'll telephone while you're getting a car." Starbuek had no farther to go than to the garage where he had put up his car, and when he got it and drove to the Kinzie building, Smith came out of the shadow of the en trance to mount beside him. "Drive around to the garage again and let me try another phone." was the low-spoken request. "My wire isn't working." The short run was quickly made, and Smith went to the garage office. A moment later a two-hundred pound policeman strolled up to put a huge foot on the running board of the waiting auto. Starbuek greeted him as a friend. "Hello, Mac. How's tricks with you to-night?" "Th' tricks are even, an' I'm try in' to take th' odd wan," said the big Irishman. " 'Tis a man named Smith I'm lookin' for, Misther Star-v buck —J. Montay-gue Smith; th' fl-nanshal boss av th' big ditch com pany. Have ye seen 'um?" Starbuek, looking over the police man's shoulder, could see Smith at the telephone in the garage office. Another man might have lost his head, but the ex-cowpuncher was of the chosen few whose wits sharpen handily in an emergency. "He hangs out- at the Hophra House a good part of the time in the evenings," he replied cooly. "Hop in and I'll drive you .around." Three minutes later the threaten ing danger was a danger pushed a little way into the future, and Star buck was back at the garage curb waiting for Smith to come out. Through the window he saw Smith placing the receiver on its hook, and a moment afterward he was open ing the car door for his passenger. "Did you make out to raise the judge?" he inquired, as Smith climb ed in. "Yes. He .will meet me at his chambers in the courthouse as soon as he can drive dowh from his house." "What are you hoping to do, John? Judge Warner is only a cir cuit judge; he can't set an order of the United States court aside, can he?" "No; but there is one thing that he can do. Yoy may remember that I had a talk with him this morning at his house, I was trying then to cover all the chances, among them the possibility that Stanton would jump in with a gang of armed thugs at the last minute. We are going to assume that this is what has been ♦lone." i Starbuek set the car in motion ana sent it spinning out of the side street arourSl the plaza, and beyond to the less brilliantly illuminated residence district —which was not the shortest way to the courthouse. "You mustn't pull Judge Warner s leg, John," he protested, breaking the purring silence after the ness quarter had been left behind, "he's too good a man for that. "I shall tell him the exact truth, so far as we know it," was the quick reply. "There is one chance m a thousand that we shall come out ot this with the law—as well as the equities—on our side. I shall tell the judge that no papers have been serv ed on us, and, so far as I know, thej haven't. What are you driving all the way around here for? ' "This is one of the times when the longest way round is the shortest way home," StarbuCk explained. "The bad news you were looking for 'has came.' While you were phoning in the garage I put one policeman wise—to nothing." "He was looking for me.' "Sure thing—and by name. We ll fool around here in the block streets until the judge has had time to show up. Then 1 11 drop, you at the court house and go hustle the sheriff tor you. You'll want Harding, I take U "Yes. I'm taking the chance that only the city authorities have been notified in my personal affair--not the county officers. It's a long chance of course; I may be running my neck squarely into the noose. But its all risk, Billy; every move in this night's game. Head up f o^ l "® courthouse The judge will be there by this time." , _ , .. Two minutes beyond this the car was drawing up to the curb on the mesa-facing side of the I . c ° l ' l '. ho square.. There were two lighted win dows in thfe second story of the otherwise darkened building, and Smith sprang to the sidewalk. "Go now and find Harding, and have him bring one trusty deputy with himt I'll be ready by the time vou get back',' he directed; but Starbuek waited until he had seen Smith safely lost in the shadows of the pillared courthouse entrance be fore he drove away. CHAPTER XX*. A Race to tlic Swift Since Sheriff Harding had left his office in the county jail and had gone home to his ranch on the north side of the river some hours earlier, not a little precious time was consumed in hunting him up. Beyond t.iis, there was another delay in securing the deputy. When Starbuck's car came to a stand for a second time before the mesa-fronting entrance of the courthouse, Smith came quickly across the walk from the portal. (To Be Continued) INFLAMED AND ITCHING SKINS NEED POSLAM If you suffer skin distress, do not let another day pass without trying Poslani, which so quickly eradicates Eczema, Pimples and all skin affec tions. Apply a little at night and see ac tual improvement next morning. Used for any itching skin trouble relief is immediate. Itching stops; no need to scratch; no discomfort. Think what this means to you If you are tortured and embarrassed by any aggravating skin disorder! Poslam is absolutely harmless. Sold everywhere. For free sample write to Emergency Laboratories, 243 W. 45th St., New York City. Urge your skin to become clearer, brighter, better by the daily use of Poslam Soap, medicated with Poslam. HAIIRISBURO fcSjNfe TELEGRAPH! "The Insider" By Virginia Terhune Van de Water ■■ ■ CHATTER liXXI. (Copyright, 1917, Star Company.) The spell was broken by a sound from by own room. It was not loud, but in the silence of the house It reached me through'the open doors leading from the nursery and my chamber into the dressing-room be tween Grace's quarters and mine. Someone was tapping cautiously, at my door. The sound did not startle me. On the contrary, it brought me bacjc to a reassuring sense of the practical and normal. The eerie sensation that somebody was watching me slipped from me. and I started to answer the summons without any hesitation. "Come in!" 1 called as soon as 1 reached my own room. I fancied that one of the maids might have come with a message trom her mistress. Perhaps Mrs. Gore was ill and had rang for Maggie and sent luer for me. I was. therefore, surprised when the widow herself entered, quickly clos ing the door behind her. She wore a heavy wrapper over her nightgown; on her unstockinged feet were thick felt slippers. She was very pale and trembling with nervousness. "May I talk to you for a few min utes?" she asked. "I came up just as quietly as I could, for I do not want Brewster to suspect I am here. He told me not to come." "He only meant that Grace was not ill enough to need you," I soothed. She was entirely unlike "he prim, somewhat dictatorial person to whom I was accustomed. She must be'very wretched to have changed thus. "1 did not come up to see about Grace," she told me, "but to talk to you." I returned to the room in which the sleeping child lay. I glanced about carefully. I told myself I was fopl ish to do this, for what could be here to harm anyone? The sensation I had had of being watched did not recur, and X persuaded myself that the uncanny experience had been the re sult of my overstrained nervous con dition. Mrs. Gore's arrival had brought Tue from the reign of imagination down to commonplace reality. The door frdm the nursery into the hall was closed. There was no key to it. Doors were seldom locked at Hillcrest. The neighborhood was a safe one and we felt no need of locks and bolts to our rooms. Turning off the light in the nursery, I went back to Mrs. Gore. She had seated herself upon my couch, where she had sat on that first day of my arrival at Hillcrest. But how differ ent she looked now! "Please come and sit by me," she q.uavered. "Then we can talk with out disturbing anybody.'' I did as she requested. "What did you wish to talk to me about?" 1 asked. Fashions of To-Day - By May Manton The great overpowering need of the country for the general cultivation of land this Summer has brought about the demand .J for suitable gardening garments J jj for women as well as for men. j *ysV This overall dress, as it is called, j Qui 1/ Jts\ ' s exceedingly practical for it is 1 Iri/£>k easy to slip on and off, it is easily laundered, it looks well ' n t ' ie wearer can tramp H vi H about a farm or work in a garden \IL_3 Isj} between the rows of vegetables il 1 Mi without the encumbrance and ) ™/ inconvenience of a skirt. (WjSJ I Gingham plain and figured and Ju £o* I simple sturdy materials of such If ME TrnFE I >MQ / sort are a PP ro P r ' ate ones. Ik I j i ( The blouse and trousers are ML" tit each joined to a separate belt it I: ~f|rtßiff/fi ar *d the two are buttoned to r-WWM gether. The openings of the r'riH" TWW trousers are at the sides. Many T* --wktj women are utilizing the gar nr ' f|ftt -JP ment for indoor work and it is iff 111 -O- claimed to be ideal for the RulOrTrofil 1L i I or t^le me di um size will be L/tf\l YfJ 27 inches wide, 4% yards 36 t' !r w 'th I yard 36 inches wide \s\ I ill or trimming and % yard 1\ \Vv IS ■' ' 36 for the bands. JjA |\ 1 j The pattern No. 9460 is cut Mj 9460 > n size 3 from 34 to 42 inches bust measure. It will be mailed to any address by the Fashion 9460 Overall Dress, 34 to 42 bust, Department of this paper, on Pri™ 1 j receipt-of fifteen cents. ' I had not forgotten tfcat my em ployer. had told her that I was en gaged to him. I was sure it was of this she wanted to question me. But her agitation made me appreciate how essential it was that I keep my' own nerves steady. "I am afraid that Brewster would be very angry if he ever knew I men tioned this to you," she began irrel evantly. "He gets very angry some times. But I hope you won't tell him. You won't will you?" "Certainly not," I replied. Elizabeth Surprint* Her "You are very young," she went on, "and I think you ought to know the truth. Brewster has told me that you are engaged to be married to him." "I am not engaged to him!" I de nied. She looked at me as not under standing, then nodded. "Perhaps not yet—but you will be as soon as he is sure it's settled— what he hasn't told you, I mesin." She was watching me narrowly, as a cat watches a mouse. Her gaze puzzled me. "I don't know what you're talking about!" I declared. She did not take her eyes from mine. "About his wife—Grace's moth er. What do you know about her?" "Only," I said slowly, wondering why my voice sounded so faint in my own ears—"only—that she is dead." "She Is NOT dead!" But four words, yet as I heard them the room reeled for an instant, then, steadied itself with a Jolt that jarred my brain. "She is not dead!" I heard myself repeating the short sentence as if I had been another person. "No!" she whispered hoarsely, her face close to mine, her eyes wide and staring. "Oh—how Brewster would hate me if he knew I was telling you this! 1 don't know what he would do to me to get even with me. But I made up my mind you should under stand how it is before he announces th<; engagement that will mean that what should be Grace's money will be yours—that the home that was my sister's home when she was a bride and that she loved will go to a wonf an who never knew her—that you will get all that w'ould have been my sister's or her child's If you had never come here." Her fingers had fastened on mine like hooks of steel. I saw that she was almost beside herself. I must calm her. "Be quiet," Mrs. Gore!" I said sharp ly, all my wits suddenly alert. "You do not know what you are talking about. I shall never marry .your brother-in-law—never!" "You will if he makes you," she insisted, still gripping my hand. "He says you will. He always gets what lie wants. And it's for you for YOU" —her voice rising to a low wall—• "it's for YOU that he gpt a divorce from my sister. Oh. my sister! My poor little sister!" (To Be Continued) Daily Dot Puzzle •3 0 • 7 10 ' C Z • \I2 6- ,5 4 3 <r^l7 3b * *l9 ( .|8 (24* •. . 2i 35 1-2° * ,12. ■za <6°- •Z5* 2& 33 ' 2 . 8 -27 Zb Forty-six straight linos will show, M.V old—: from IltilTalo. Draw from one to two and so on to the end. A Sale of the Celebrated WHITTALL RUGS This wonderful money-saving Rug Sale is an event of great import to all who really know and appreciate just what WHITTALL QUALITY is. WHITTALL RUGS are second to none and the great big reason for these specially reduced prices is that they are patterns that are no longer available. Attend this sale early, as there are only one and two of a grade. You'll find these Rugs the greatest bargains we have ever offered. Note the savings. 9x12 Anglo-Persian Rugs, worth $82.50. Sale Price $62.50 9x12 Royal Worcester Rugs, worth $61.75. Sale Price $53.50 9x12 Teprac Rugs, worth $57.50. Said Price $45.00 8.3x10.6 Teprac Rugs, worth $52.50. Sale Price $41.95 9x12 Body Brussels Rugs, worth $37.50. Sale Price $31.95 8.3x10-6 Body Brussels Rugs, worth $32.50. Sale Price $25.45 9x12 Axminster Rugs, worth $37.50. Sale Price $27.95 8.3x10.6 Axminster Rugs, worth $35.00. Sale Price $25.45 9x12 Tapestry Rugs, worth $27.50. Sale Price $19.95 27x54 inches Axminster Rugs, worth $4.00. Sale Price $2.39 GOLDSMITHS North Market Square JULY 6, 1917. HOME AFTER THIRTEEN YEARS Mechanicsburg, Pa., July 6.—Af ter an absence of thirteen years, Mr, and Mrs. David J. L. Miller, of Los Angeles, Cal., with their son, Richard, arrived In their native Ice-Mint Brings Joy To Tired, Aching Feet /i warm days and modern foot-wear /] ave given you aching, burning, swollen feet, corns, or painful calluses, here is \ real foot-comfort for you at last / / /1I , From the cooling, dewy mint-beds of old 22/// 1//,] I/i Japan come the fresh, soothing ingredients that VJf/ / 11/Jflllli > ln i u3t a * ew weeks have made Ice-Mint the f ./nil/M nUtt, UflsMN most popular foot remedy in America. f //ffJ /ifJjll \H /jy " Rub a little Ice-Mint on any tender corn or yJy/J li!'i I I ii Ml//A callus. Instantly the soreness disappears, and r J yjj wj / iUj'k shortly the corn or callus will loosen so that it J,(Jfii I Vl£& cail be '^ tcc * out easily with the fingers. 1W is a clean, creamy, snow-white, non-poisonous sub- W \ / stance and does not inflame or even irritate the most 3f tender skin. There is no pain and not one bit of JTA. soreness while applying Ice-Mint, or afterwards. It wSa acts so gently, so magically, that you will never again run the risk of blood-poisoning by cutting a corn. Hard conw, soft corns, ctrns between the toes, also toughened calluses soon loosen and come off under the remarkable influence of Ice-Mint. No matter what you have tried or how many times you have been disappointed, jroa will revel in the cooling, soothing comfort that Ice-Mint brings. Try it! Ask your druggist today for a small JV °f Ice-Mintand learn for yourself what solid foot-comfort really is. You'll like it immensely. HOTELS, RESTAURANTS and HOARDING HOUSES can have their kitchen cutlery ground satisfactorily at The Federal Machine Shop Cranberry St., Bet. 2nd and Court S town, Mechanlcsburg, yesterday af _ ternoon. Mrs. Miller is the daugh< ter of Ell Mumma, Marble and York j streets, whom they will visit with I other relatives and friends. Mr. Mil • I ler is employed with the Southern 31 Pacific Railroad Company.
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