t BIG TIMBER By BERTRAND W. SINCLAIR I*l6. fcy UM. Bmm ft Co. i )\ (Continued.') "There won't be," he smiled. "Frankly, If I need it I'll use It. But that's a matter there's plenty of time to decide. Tou see, although technically I may be broke, I'm a long way from the end of my tether. 1 I think I'll have my working outfit clear, apd the country's full of tim- j ber. I've got a standing in the busi ness that neither fire nor anything j else can destroy. No, I have not any false pride about the money. ; dear, but the money part of our fu ture is a detail. With the incentive I've got now to work and plan it won't take me five years to be a bigger toad in the timber puddle than I ever was. You don't know what a dynamo I am when I get going." "I don't doubt that," she said proudly. "But the money's yours if you need it." "I need something else a good deal more right now," he laughed. "That's something to eat. Aren't you hun gry, Stella? Wouldn't" you like a etip of coffee?" "I'm famished." she admitted the literal truth. She had eaten scarcely anything that day. "We'll go down to the camp." Fyfe suggested. "The cook will have something left. We're camp ing like pioneers down there. The shacks were all burned, and some body sank the cook house scow." They went down the path to the bay, hand In hand, feeling their way through that fire blackened area, under a black sky. The cook's fire was dead, and that worthy was humped on his bed roll smokin ga pipe. But he had col in it, and she had forgotten what it was like to be treated as an equal.; I It tired her to hear people exclaim i at her extraordinary success even while she listened for it, and would have been more than surprised if the 1 praise had not been accorded her. One night, busily at work in the 1 big, shadowy studio, she was startled j at a deep voice behind her, who re ! marked lazily: "That color's bad." Instantly she wheeled in her low j , chair. She stared haughtily at the j intruder. He was a tall, slight man, i enveloped in an artist's tan coat, : | which was badly stained. "Where did you come from?" shej ' queried coldly, ignoring his remark' I about the color. "Oh, I live over you," he said, lm-1 ; perturbably. "I've passed you in the J J hall lots of times, but, of course, I | you've never seen me." "Of course not," she returned, j "And how do you happen to know enough to be able to criticise my j work?" "In other words, how can a poor, I unsuccessful worm like myself darej ' to pass sentence on the priceless! work of the great Lydia Arm strong?" He did not speak bitterly, | i just naturally as though asking her j I a question. "But the color is bad," he per-; j sisted. | "Are you an artist?" she asked. ' managing to convey a whole world I of insolence in the cult question. "Not a successful one. Not suc cessful enough to do anything and get away with it. I shall work." That reached home and the girl; I colored fiercely. "SVhat do you j j mean?" she burst out. "I didn't mean to be rude. Miss' ' Armstrong," he said penitently.; | "Your work is great, you're a won- ; I der, every one thinks so. I was just; I wondering how it felt not to have to i aspire to anything more." 1 Fashions of To-Day - By May Manton , Even the school girls are t doing their "bit" just now and such an apron as this one is sure to be in demand for some form of service. You can make it of gingham or of chambray or of lawn or of percale or of any similar washable m'aterial. It is an exceedingly simple gar ment and can be laundered easily, and since the sleeves are cut in one with the main por tion, in Oriental fashion, there are only two seams to be sewed up. The apron is slipped on over the head without an open ing with the belt holding it at the waist line. You can make the sleeves long or short as you like and the neck square or V-shaped. Blue chambray with white trimming makes a very pretty effect and since blue and white are the colors of the Food Conservation League they carry a certain dignity. For the 12-year size will be needed, 4 yards of material 27 /p-k inches wide, 2% yards 36, with /luJi yard 36 inches wide for the lir\ The pattern No. 9555 is cut 11 1 \ in sizes from Bto 14 years. It will be mailed to any address by the Fashion Department of 9555 Girl's Bungalow Apron. Bto 14 this P 3 ** 1 "' on 1 of 10 years. Price to cents, cents. HXRRISBURG 3M& TELEGRAPH "What makes you think I don't aspire?" "Something about the way you look. I've seen you lots of places, and you don't seem satisfied." "Of course I'm satisfied," she re turned quickly. "Why shouldn't I be? I've attained everything 1 set out to attain." "Yes, but you've lost the struggle. Wasn't it fun when you had to work hard and you saw things coming bet tei every day? Gee, it's the only I thing that keeps me going, that ex -1 citement of struggle." The girl had returned to her work I and was absorbedly working in her 1 wonderful tone effects with the soft I pastels. "It's not much fun for you to ; tramp in the rain any more, is it." ! the man went on, "and to eat a meal | at a cheap restaurant with a lot of I crazy souls eager for life, and to go i to bed not knowing what the morrow is to bring forth?" He stopped,'ar rested by a look in the girl's eyes. "Are you lonely?" he whispered. 1 She turned to him slowly, and then | her eyes wide on his, she nodded. "I Ikiew you were?" he said half i to himself, "I saw it in your eyes | once, and I meant to find out for myself. Why don't you get acquaint ed with yourself?" "How?" She asked simply, so sim | ply, that it .seemed incongruous that | fhe could ask so simple a question. I "Just because you're a success in this kind of work does not mean that j you know everything life has to of fer. Go out after something else, get interested." She shrugged her shoulders and turned back to her work. Once more J she was, outwardly at least. th>? j great Lydia Armstrong. But she was smiling a little bit. and she was not bored. It might be interesting to know this impudent creature, ac tually interesting. And it had been a long time since she had been inter | ested in any one but herself. Woman Burned to Death While Boiling Apple Butter j Newville. Pa., Oct. 29.—While Mrs. j Mary E. J. Farner, wife of Daniel ; Farner, of Center, was engaged in boiling apple butter on Friday morn ing, her clothing caught fire and she ; was burned so badly an to cause her death a few hours later. Mrs. Farner was 65 years old and was member jof Center Lutheran Church. She is . survived by her husband and two ■ children, Mrs. Charles Stum, of Plainfleld, and Wilmer Farner, of near Newville. Mrs. McCalister. of Newville, is a sister. Burial was i niade in the Newville Cemetery this I morning. THE DRYING OF FRUITS AND VEGETABLES Pearl MacDonaltl The present national situation re quires the use of every proved and practical method for the preserva tion and conservation coun try's food supply. Everywhere there will be the need to dry more fruits and vegetables Nailing a Lie—Cold! WE have read letters from Chalmers Distributors in which they have stated that competitors were saying to present owners of Chalmers cars and to prospective buyers, generally, that the manufacture of Chalmers cars would be discontinued. There are thirty (30) automobile companies recognized by the general trade that manufacture and sell Touring Cars and Roadsters at retail prices between $l,lOO and $1,500.. We haven't heard that all of these companies, or any one of them, were going to dis continue production or quit business. Why, then, should the Chalmers, with a better car than many others in this class of 30 manufacturers, stop production ? MAKE A PROPHECY, and will authorize our Distributors to back it up with $200,000 of our money; that the Chal mers Company under the Maxwell Management, will stand ahead of 15 of these companies in production in 1918, and the Chalmers Company will stand ahead of 20 of these companies in production in 1919. This doesn't look as though we expected to discontinue making Chalmers cars. The reason some people are trying to disturb the present Chal mers owners is to scare them about service so as to get a better "trade-in" on their Chalmers. The reason for circulating such a story generally would be to pre vent the prospective purchaser from inspecting a Chalmers car, because if a prospective buyer of an automobile will look at and rids in the present Chalmers models he will be very apt to buy one. It is the best car selling at $1365 that we know of. This is one reason why Chalmers cars will continue to be made, not only in 1918, but in 1919, 1920 and other years. Another reason is that the Maxwell organization has told the general Public that Chalmers cars would be produced in larger quan tities than ever before and we have a way of making good with the public on sales and production. President, Chalmers and Maxwell Motor Companies Keystone Motor Car Company C. H. BARNER, MANAGER. 57 to 103 S. Cameron St. Harrisburg, Pa. % than has been done in past years. This method of preserving food ma terials has been known and used for generations, but it has been less com monly employed since factory-canned products have been so abundant. If the predicted shortage of glass and tin containers occurs this year, it will still be possible to resort to drying. Moisture is one of the require ments for the life and growth of the organisms that cause foods to spoil. OCTOBER 29, 1917. • Therefore, by making food dry through evaporation of its moisture, the development of the organisms may be prevented and the food thus preserved. Moisture may be evaporated by ex posing food materials to the direct rays of the sun, to oven heat, to cur rents of heated air, or by using a partial vacuum for rapid drying at a low temperature. Drying by exposure to the sun s rays and by the heat of the oven are the two ways commonly used by the homemaker. In all oven drying, the heat should be regulated so that a constant low temperature is main tained. The foods must dry slowly and not be allowed to cook or scorch. CROUP Spasmodic croup is usually relieved with f§srfk one application of— lYt/sfP* >L.tU* Body-6uard tn*for ttom* ' vicrsvaporueEs 5