yiPl Readii\(j ike RsiwiKj IPlfj The Yukon By William MacLeod Raine (Continued) "It ain't likely any grizzlies will come pokin' their noses into camp. But you never can tell. Any last words you want sent to relatives?" asked Gideon Holt. The last words they heard from Big Bill as they moved down the draw were sulphuric. It was three o'clock in the morn ing: by the watch when they started. About nine they threw o: for break fast. By this time they were just across the divide and were ready to take the down trail. "I think we'll let Dud go now," Elliot told his partner in the ad venture. "Better hold him till afternoon. Then they can't possibly reach us till we get to Kamatlah." "What does it matter if they do? We have both rifles and have left them only one revolver. Besides. I don't like to leave two bound men alone in so wild a district for any srreat time. No, we'll start Dud on the back trail. That grizzly you promised Big Bill might really turn up." The two men struck the head waters of Wild Goose creek about noon and followed the stream down. They traveled steadily without haste. So long as they kept a good lookout there was nothing to be feared from the men they had left behind. They had both a long start and the ad vantage of weapons. Daily Dot Puzzle ii • .14 15 *. Z 4' i 8 " • • J6 7 • S '' <0 * JLI ' M ' 19 41 . .23 43. ; 7 * 2fc.25 28 #2 .9 4! 3o S2 39 . „ 3 ' 5 . 5 ♦ 57 53 \\ 34 I'race the lines to twenty-one \nd the sketch will be half done. Draw from one to two and so on :o the end. Facts About the Sugar Situation Our Government has asked you to use sugar spar ingly. We believe that the people of this country will be glad to do their part to conserve the sugar supply when they know the facts. These facts are as follows: More than two-thirds of the source of Europe's sugar supply is within the present battle lines. This has resulted in greatly reducing the production of sugar in Europe. England and France and other countries have been forced to go for sugar to Cuba. Ordinarily, nearly all of the Cuban raw sugar comes to the United States and is refined here, chiefly for I home use. This is not the case now. In view of the exceptional world demand for sugar there is no surplus, and barely enough to tide us over until the new crop comes in. The people of the New England and Atlantic Coast States should use sugar sparingly. No one should hoard or waste it. This Company has no surplus sugar to sell. It is working with the Government to conserve the supply, and to take care of the Allies so far as possible. Do not pay an increased retail price. The Franklin Sugar Refining Company "A Franklin Sugar for every use " WEDNESDAY EVENING, Bringing Up *-,* *-.* Copyright, 1917, International News Service J3y McM I UNDERSTAND VOU ADVERTISED I THE HOURb W?E YE"b - ARE OHI INO - MERVE<b WELL - WHAT I JUt)T VAMTED TO TOR A MAN TO HAUL COAL AND I t O 9P> M . \OU THE ARE * LL DOVN- CAN *°° INQUIRE WHAT MFRvp ATTEND TO THE C J C ' If Elliot had advertised for a year] he could nt. have found a man whoj knew more of Colby Maedonald's 1 past than Gideon Holt. The old' man had worked a claim on French- j man creek with him and had by j sharp practice—so at least he had ! come to belweve —>been lawed out of | his rights by the shrewd Scotsman, j For seventeen years he had nursed ! a grudge against Macdonald, and he was never tired of talking about him. j One story in particular interested 1 Gordon. "There was Farrell O'NeiU. He was ' a good fellow, Farrell was, but hej had just one weakness. There was! timen when he liked the bott'.e % too| well. He'd let it alone for and then just lap the stuff up. It was the time of the stampede to Bonanza creek. Well, the news of the strike on Bonanza reached Daw son and we all burnt up the trail 1 to get to the new ground first. O'Neill) was one of the first. He got in j about twenty below Discovery, if I remember. Mac wasn't in Dawson, but he got there next mo'nin' and heard the news. He lit out for Bo-1 nanza pronto." The old miner stopped, took a j chew of tobacco, and looked down] into the valley far below where Kamatlah could just be seen, a little j huddle of huts. "Well?" asked Elliot. It was oc casionally necessary to prompt Holt when he paused for his dramatic ef- ; fects. "Mac drops in and joins O'Neill at j night. They knew each other, y'l understand, so o' course it was na tural Mac would put up at his camp. O'Neill had a partner and they had located together. Fellow named Strong." j "Net Hanford Strong, a little heavy-set man somewhere around fifty?" "Ytorfve tagged the right man. Know him?" "I've met him." "Well, I never heard anything | against Han Strong. Anyway, he was off that night packing grub up while SV.rrell held down the claim. Mac had a jug of booze with him. He; got Farrell tanked up. You know Mac—how he can put it across when j he's a mind to. He's a forceful devil, s and he can be a mighty likable one.! But when he is friendliest you want j to watch out he don't slip an upper-; cut at you that'll put you out of; biz He done that to Farrell—an.ll done it a-plenty." "How?" "O'Neill-got mellowed up till he, thought Mac was his best friend. He was ready to eat out of his hand. So J Mac works him up to sign a con tract—before witnesses lt.o; trust | Mac for that—exchanging his half I interest in the claim for five hun- j dred dollars in cash and Mac> no- j 'count lease on Frenchman creek. I i Inside of a week Mac and Strong j j struck a big pay streak. They took 11 over two hundred thousand from j I the spring clean-up." "It was nothing better than rob-1 bery." "Call it what you want to. Any how it stuck. O'Neill kicked, and that's all the good it did him. He consulted lawyers at Dawson. Finally he got so discouraged that he plumb went to pieces—got on a long bat and stayed there till his money ran out. Then one bitter night he starts tip to Bonanza to have it out with Mac. The mercury was so low it had run into the ground a foot. Far rell slept in a deserted cabin with out a fire and not enough bedding, lie caught penumony! By the time he reached the claim he was a mighty sick man. Next week he died. That's all Mac done to O'Neill. Not a thing that wasn't legal, either." Gordon thought of Sheba O'Neill as she sat listening to the tales of Macdonald in Diane's parlor and his gorge rose at the man. "But Mac had fell on his feet all right," continued Holt. "He got his start off that claim. Now he's a mil l'onrirc two or three over, [ reckon." They reached the outskirts of Kamatlah about noon of the third day. Gordon left Holt at his cabin after they had eaten and went in alone to look the ground over. He met Selfridge at the post office. That gentleman was effusive in his greet ing. "This is a pleasant surprise, Mr. Elliot. When did you get in? J'm down on business, of course. No need to tell you that—nobody would come to this hole for any other rea son. Howland and his wife are the only possible people here. Of course you'll stop with us. Elliot answered genially. "Pleas ant time we had on the river, didn't weV Thanks awfully for your Invita tion. but I've already made arrange ments for putting up." "Where? There's no decent place in camp except at Howland's." "I couldn't think of troubling him," countered Gordon. "No trouble at all. We'll send for your things. Where are thevV" The land agent let him have it between the eyes. "At Gideon Holt's. I'm staying with him on his claim." (To l>e Continued) HXimiSBURG TEtEGKXPHI Airs Well That ai Ends Well us By Jane McLean Mrs. Arlington Roche was being entertained. Never in her life has she clipped into anything of the kind be fore. Certainly if she had known of the amusement to be derived from social settlement work, she would have given her time to it long before this. The holiday season had brought it a great shortage of workers, and hence the reason for Mrs. Arlington Koche's hand in it. Her hand was in it plentifully enough, too, but the heart that was lacking was perhaps not entirely her fault. It isn't the easiest thing in the world to do set tlement work and understand what one is doing. Lizzie O'Rourke, small Jimmy on her sharp thin little knees, wa.i re garding Mrs. Roche with big round eyes. Mrs. Roche was talking to the roomful, and tired Mrs. O'Rourke was wishing that the lady would go so that they could all explore the basket and see what was in it. But that was not Mrs. Roche's idea nt all. That estimable lady wanted to get every thrill possible out of tfc* ex perience and she intended to dole out everything that the basket con tained with a few appropriate re marks made over each gift. Mrs. Roche was president of the woman's Club and knew how to do things of this kind gracefully. "I have brought you some use ful things. Mrs. O'Rourke," she was saying, turning to that tired little woman who grinned eagerly. "Thank you, ma'am, if the chil dren get a few things they need, I'll be thankful indeed to you." "Bring the basket over here, James," said Mrs. Roche to the chauffeur, who disdainfully did as lie was bid. "Now you may wait in the ear until I came down," and Mrs. Roche bent over the basket and began taking out the things one at a time. Now small children are not over grateful for things to wear, and Mamie, aged twelve, was no excep tion to the genera! rule. In her childish mind had come memories of other holiday seasons when O'Rourke paterfamilies had been out on his "regular," and ladies had come with baskets of things to eat and a few sensible things to wear. Mamie was pretty, too, and she worked for two-forty a week mak ing nosegays. The money went for milk for the baby and a few pieces of coal. Mamie had never known what it was to buy anything for herself. She did hope that the bas ket held a white collar. Any kind \ of a collar, she reasoned to herself.! If it contained a collar, she could' be entirely and perfectly happy. ' Small Lizzie with little Jim on her lap was not hopeful.' Three years younger than Mamie, she was not so good looking and therefore possessed no illusions. Nine-year old Lizzie was hardened to her mother's suffering and her own self denial that had begun in the cradle. Disappointments did not hurt her as they did Mamie, whom she ador ed. Six-year-old Jerry hid behind his mother's skirts and listened to everything that was being said, and " I 1 Fashions of To-Day - By May Manton j rni> No smarter, more attractive iLyfe bath robe than this one could 31 be offered for the growing girls. It J? It has a very novel collar and Jk jw the fronts can be rolled open as T?/ Al lik shown on the figure or buttoned § / V |& up more closely as shown in the small view. You can make it bath robe flannel or you can HII make it of terry cloth and you jPg can use the pockets or not as jfy, fijjfl you like. As it is shown on the kill figure, it; is made from a cotton V Pil 1 ' /j bath robe flannel showing a I hi mixed design and is trimmed H lil rfjjfejl with broadcloth in plain color. % H 1 wfwllll That combination is a pretty '1 a* ! /InH! one anc ' a serv ' c ® a ble one. Cor m I* wwflli duroy lined throughout with thin Japanese silk is greatly in t#lßii®S A } vogue and would be charming iSsrßllߧr v\l\ mat ' e * n t*" B vay. ? or the 12-year size will be J/JA WrHLj needed, 5% yards of material i ri' ! 2 ? ,nc "h es wide, 4)-£ yards 36, IJI f I with 1 yard 44 for the trimming. 0/ 14,4 i-L Jj The pattern No. 9614 is cut ™ in sizes from Bto 14 years. It will be mailed to any address by 9614 Giri'i Bath Robe, Bto 14 year*, the Fashion Department of this .Price 15 cents. paper on receipt of fifteen cents. Mrs. Roche talked smoothly and with a sense of righteousness that, was positively exhilarating. "You might put the canned edi bles away, Mrs. O'Rourke," she was saying. "Now this muffler will be splendid for Jerry. Come here, my dear, and see the nice muffler. i brought a dark one, so that it would not show the dirt so quickly. And here's a pair of mittens for the lit tle girl—a nice pair of black mit tens for those little red hands." And as Lizzie smiled perfunctorily, Mrs. Roche felt particularly benign ant. "Here's a nice blanket," she went on. "Oh, thank you, ma'am!" • Mrs. O'Rourke said right here. "The baby did need one." "And hero's some dark calico to make up a few dresses for your self," said Mrs. Roche, smoothly. Mrs. O'Rourke smiled again. She did not know when she could get time away from her scrubbing to make them up; but maybe Mrs. Finnegan noxt door could help make some dresses for the children later on. Mrs. O'Rourke did not know why, she had hoped as a child hoped, as Mamie had hoped, that this year someone might give her a worn-out sweater —any kind of a sweater—but she had. longetl for a sweater for such a long time that she could hardly remember when the idea had flrst popped into her head. "I think that's all," Mrs. Roche was saying, "and I hope that you will enjoy everything." She beamed joyfully on the little crowd as she spoke. "Oh!" she exclaimed, spying Mamie for the first time, "I haven't brought you anything, have I, my dear? I didn't know there were four children." Mamie came forward suddenly and stood in the flaring gaslight. Her black hair was combed away from her broad forehead; her eyes were blue and very Irish. Mamie was beautiful even at twelve. Mrs. Roche loved beautiful things. "This will never do," she said, slowly touching the perfect curve of the white cheek—"we must do something about it right away." And then .acting .entirely on .impulse and not because she thought it at all necessary or appropriate or sensible, Mrs. Roche fumbled a moment in her bag and brought out a live-dollar gold piece. Mamie's eyes almost started out of her head, and her creamy cheeks flushed poppy red as she thanked the lady for the gift. "Oh, ma! oh, ma!" she almost sobbed, flinging herself into her mother's arms, when Mrs. Arlington Roche Anally took her departure. "Ain't it wonderful? We'll have a real Christmas—a real one — this year, with that two-dollar sweater for you, and a train of cars for Jerry boy, and a pink elephant for baby, and a doll for Lizzie!" "And a white collar for you," in terposed Lizzie, gravely. And then Mamie hugged her family, and they all cried a little, even Lizzie, who had a nine-year-old contempt for tears. WHAT HABITS ARE YOU COLLECTING? Minds Likened to Phonograph Discs on Which Needle Leaves Tracks "ITow use does breed a. habit in a man!" Shakespeare said it quite a while ago, and, like most of his quotable remarks, it is true to-day— universal. When you stop to think that our minds are actually like the phono graph discs on which their record ing needle leaves its track, you have also to recognize the impor tance of being careful to pick out the tunes. Of course, if you have "Annie Laurie" recorded on your wax dies and you decide that you prefer "The Marseillaise" probably you can scrape off the first tune track, put on some more prepared material and start over. As far as that is concerned, you can erase a single impression pretty thoroughly from your conscious mind, but buried in the subcon scious remains a trace of the track you permitted to be recorded there. Unless we actually pick ourselves up out of a rut, most, of us go jog ging along through life in a groove. The minute you recognize the truth of that, you see how important it is to choose carefully your groove or set of grooves. If you are going to collect habits, they had better be good ones. For, after you get these friendly little habits, they generally turn out to be regular "old men of the sea"—hard to shake are bad habits, because they "get" you grotty soon after you get them. I wonder how many hopeless, sod den drunkards, whose groove is a ditch, started by taking a drink ev ery night at dinner and then drifted along to two or three and pretty soon added a drink or so at lunch. That habit of taking one glass of wine with dinner seemed simple and harmless until it grew and made of the habitual drinker an habitual drunkard. One of the dangerous habits into which the feminine person drifts very easily nowadays is that of us ing a great deal of "makeup." Now, there is nothing intrinsically immor al about putting flesh-colored pow der on your nose. It went there first, I suppose, with a praiseworthy vision of toning down an ugly and unbecoming state of shininess. And if flesh-colored powder is not im moral, neither is rose color nor crim son. But the human mind has a habit of associating rouge and immorality. Bible times "the painted wom an" was a descriptive term -applied to paint the woman of no morals! Well, then, the woman who paints meets a mental habit—that of cata loguing her in an unpleasant divi sion. That, in itself, is bad enough and she might escape by making up so delicately and daintily as to es cape detection. But after you have the habit of putting on a little rosy glow, you get the habit of trying to beautify yourself, you lose your sense of pro portion, you have the habit of find ing beauty in high coloring. And the woman who started out in Janu ary to indicate the bloom of youth softly on her fading cheeks is likely to be discovered about October the next with glowing red lips, glasing white nose and gleaming black eye lashes, all cheapening and lowering the tone of a face she has drifted into the habit of coloring and trying to beautify. On wltli our endless chain! The habit of using makeup gets woman into the habit of counting on her beauty to win her friends, to give her the reputation for charm. It gets her out of the habit of culti vating her mentality and her fine character. See what a dangerous chain of circumstances we have set in motion by purchasing tht box of "Maiden's Blush" and getting In the habit of applying it. It's a serious business, even if we NO QUININE IN THIS COLD CURE "Pape's Cold Compound" ends colds and grippe in a few hours. Take "Pape's Cold Compound" ev ery two hours until you have taken three doses, then all grrlppe misery goes and your cold will be broken. It promptly opens your cloggcd-up nos trils and air passages of the head: stops nasty discharge or nose run ning: relieves the headache, dull nfss. feverishness, sore throat, sneez ing. soreness and stiffness. J)on'.i stay stuffed-lip! Quit blow ing and snuffling. Kase your throb bing head—nothing else in the world gives such prompt relief as "Pape's Cold Compound." which costs only a few cents at any drug store. It acts without assistance, tastes nice, and causes no inconvenience. Accept no substitute. DECEMBER 26, 1917 take it lightly! The habit a young man Rets into of wasting his noon hour in a pool room or hanging around some street, corner evenings that he may jolly the girls who pass by isn't half as bad as the other habits these things are going to lead him to. None of us can pick out our in clinations anrl tendencies—all of us can choose which we shall cultivate. Even if the first, olive you ever tast ed seemed a rancid fruit and you just happened to Keep at it —you probably grew to like olives. Actu ally, you can take a repellent thing and make of it such a. habit that after a while it seems just exactly to (it your tastes. The biting of finger nails surely never affords anybody real joy or satisfaction. But out of a nervous gnawing or a quick desire to get. rid of a hangnail, a very unpleasant habit lias often developed. Watch your mannerisms. Guard your ten dencies. Cultivate your tastes care fully lest a really destructive habit get you into its grip. Private Writes Verse on War Against Hun War-inspired poetry has been coming from the training camps and' trenches in great quantities durin the past few months. Private Alvin Newkirk, Company A, Fifth United States Infantry, sends this bit of verse from his station, Camp' Em pire, Canal Zone: Wake up, you patriotic souls, Young men of Uncle Sam; And help to make your country's goals And make yourself a man. Why idle, all your time away When there is work tp do; Your country needs your idle hours, What goods are they to you? You do your "little bit" each day, At various different work; At night you turn your work to play And military duties shirk. You want to wish your country well, If you are true at heart; Take up your Idle time and say, I'll take my country's part. i And don't you be a slacker For there's a reason why: A slacker may be encouraged liy many a German spy. ito the Golden Seal Luncheonette Many businessmen and women, and shop pers also, have al ready discovered this delightful noonday rest. You, too, will enjoy the excellent food, the tempting service, the reasonable prices. Many special combin ations at 20c, 25c, 30c, 35c, as well as a la carte service. Soups, Sandwiches, Vegetables, Pies, Puddings, Ice Cream, Sundaes, Tea, Coffee, etc. Oysters in Season. Open from 8 A. M. to 7 P. M. City Health Tests prove our Ice Cream the best in the city. Try some at the Fountain—take some home. V 11 SOUTJ^M4RKETSQIiIBE But face your duties bravely And help to keep your race The bravest and the proudest That's found in any place. Private Newkirk was a frequent Harrisburg visitor and has many j friends here. 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