The Plotters A New Serial of East and West By Virginia Terhnne Van de Water CHAPTER XIII Copyrigrht, 1918, the Star Company For some days after this, John Butler saw Elizabeth Wade only at meal times or in the presence of Amos and Mrs. Chapin. Elizabeth suspected that he was determined to prevent any closer acquaintance with herself, and was more amused than piqued by the sus picion. She appreciated that, believ ing her to be the cousin of the farm er's wife, he had scruples about pay ing her such marked attention as he might bestow upon one of his own class. So. smiling to herself, she aided and abetted his efforts to evade her. Yet, occasionally, she wished that she might have a pleasant, long talk with him. She was lonely here, away from all her former associates and without intellectual companion ship. When not helping Mrs. Chapin she spent much o( her time in her room reading. She wrote to her brother but seldom, for there was lit tle to tell except that his ex-patient was looking stronger and better with each passing day and that the fields were improving as rapidly as he was. It was evident to her that Chapin was not allowing John Butler to do much of the work that he himself was in the habit of performing. Whereas Amos was accustomed to rising at daylight, on these mornings he lay abed until Butler had been be low stairs for an hour. In the after noon, also, Amos would come to the house for a little nap, while the younger guest would remain at work until the close of the supper hour. Elizabeth knew that since Biitler had been forced upon Chapin the farmer had resolved to take advantage of the chance to lead a more luxurious life than heretofore. Butler may have noticed this him self, but he spoke no word of com plaint. Instead, he took matters more and more into his own hands, order ing from the city certain farm imple ments, and making improvements that the farmer considered useless. "A fool and his money are soon parted," Chapin remarked dryly one day to his wife, as she and Eliza beth sat in the vine-shaded kitchen porch hulling strawberries. "That young Butler seems to be crazy to spend good money on a lot of new fangled fixin's. Well, if he wants to do it, and the owner of the farm don't object, I'll not say anything. Your brother and 1 will profit by it I maybe—if there is any profit, which : I doubt," he added to Elizabeth. J A Skeptlcnl Farmer k "There will be profit, if one may I \ judge by the looks of the farm," the , girl affirmed gravely. "Looks aren't everything. Wait till the crops come in," the man said skeptically. "I don't hold with these i scientific ways of doin' things. But your brother wanted it. tried out —so I'm keeping mum." The words set i Elizabeth to thinking, and the results <>f her cogitation was the decision that John Butler knew what he was doing and that she would best not display too much interest in the mat ter. She would not mention it to him. But Butler himself -introduced the subject one morning when, on her way down to the pond for waterlilies, she met him. "May I go with you?." he asked abruptly when she told him her er rand. "Why—yes," she stammered, "if you aren't too busy?" "I am not,' he declared. "I have been , working hard lately, but just now 1 called Mr. Chapin's attention to this fact and suggested that he and Talak finished the bit of cultivating I was doing in the corn. I do not think he liked It," he added, reflectively. "It is his job, anyway." Elizabeth declared bluntly. "Don't let him im pose on you, Mr. Butler." The man looked at her with a sur prised expression that reminded her that Chapin was supposed to be her cousin by marriage. "I mean," she explained, "he s al ways been in the habit of doing such work and you have not." Ho did not say much until he and she were in one of the llat-bottomed boats on the little lake. Then, when Butler had rowed around a bend that hid them from the farm, he laid down the oars and let the boat drift into the shadows. A Pleasing Impression "It Is good to get out here where it is quiet and cool," he remarked after a long silence. "Chapin brought me a letter from the village an hour ago. It is from my mother. Do you mind if I read it now?" "Certainly not," she assured him. "Read it. by all means." Leaning back in the stern of the HUSBAND SAVES WIFE From Suffering by Getting Her 1 Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege table Compound Pitts l urgh. Pa.—"For many i months I was not able to do my I work owing to a |||l|||||||||||||| I weakness which caused backache nn d headaches. A friend called ■§■ jg niv attention to one of your newspaper ad- i i vertlsetne nts and immediate- I ly my husband ! bought three bottles of Lydia E. Pln kh a m's Vegetable Com-' nini i "I T pound for me. After taking two bottles I felt fine and my troubles caused hv that weakness are a thing of the oast. All women who suffer as I did should try Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound." —Mrs. Jas. Rohrberg, 620 Knapp St., N. S., Pittsburgh, Pa. Wome-i who suffer from any form of weakness, as indicated by dis placements, Inflammation, ulcera tion, irregularities, backache, head aches, nervousness or "the blues," should accept Mrs. Rohrberg's sug gestion and give Lydia E. Pink ham's Vegetable Compound a thor ough trial. For over forty years it has been correcting such ailments. If you have mysterious complications write for advise to Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co., Lynn, Mass. For Skin Soreness of infants and children you can find nothing that heals like Sykes Comfort Powder Leading physicians and nurses have used and endorsed it for more than 25 years. 25c at the Vlnol and other drug stores Powder Co., Boston, Mass. MONDAY EVENING, \ Bringing Up Father * m * Copyright, 1918, International News Service *■* By McManus fl I szzr s&'sJri I H+l I I ] II |-H-| N THEM OAV?> B e>MJ- MtN • WHAT t> H THE MAT- <- J I 9 &ACK IM B . art '. Maud Griffith, Mrs. Annie Hicks, Mrs. Hattie Jackson, Mary L Johnson. Ruth A. Kepner, Klang, May Mrs. W. H Lin e.l,'{l"in ,' Stel i a L, y ter - Roda Miller Miller Irena Miller, Mrs. Leonard My rs ' Pa /isy Plank. Mrs. Lulu Rhein h*r*. ?J' 88 *'• Robbins, Lillian Steg man, Mrs. William Straw, Mrs. Wil liam H. \ aii, Mrs. J. M. Wagner, Mrs !ihinKton ' A 'i a Webb, Mrs Lll Witmer, Allle Wood, Sue Yingst. * e !, B J? d"Ti K " Alley, Ray Ander son, H E. Bailey. Osville Bauscher Jacod Benner, Hermon Bultz. Jos Car ter, Frank Cline, V. C. Daughty. Mar tin Douglass. H. P. Eby Antonio Faille, Henry Grant. Merlin Green" L Hersler, J. H. Hurst. Elmer Jackion. George James, Charles W. Johns (2) Dr. J- E. Johnston, Stephen C. Ken ney, Jimmy Kent, George C. Kiner twm *nF' . w ', Koueke ' Jam *s r! Little, Albert Lloyd, S. O. McAlarnev Harry Myers, Frank W. Norton S. W. Pender, F. Polansky, Samuel K Rapp. Harry B. Ritner. John H Sneiders, Luther Snyder. Harry Stahf Rev. W. B. Stoddard, R. J. Sweitzer Charlie Thompson. Govmaus Wellam Wilbert Western. Foreign—Walter Wade. Firm—American Protective Asso ciation. Persons should invariably have their mall matter addressed to their street and number, thereby Insuring prompt delivery by the carriers. FRANK C. SITES. Postmaster. KUUUSBURQ M& VELEOStXF9 FLYING WITH SHAFFER PUTNAM'S FINE WORK LETTERS FROM A DAITHIX BOY TO HIS MOTHER Escadrille Spad 38, Secteur Postal 12, June 7, 1918. Dear Mother: To-day we are really beginning to feel summer here, despite the fact that we live in a pine grove. In deed, the hangars and barracks are so well hidden by the surrounding pines that I have difficulty in recog nising it from the air, 'tis cam ouflaged so well. We are well estab lished in our new quarters now and are getting accustomed to the new landing ground. I used to kick about the punk "piste" we had at Melette, but it's no comparison to this. It's plenty long enough, but so doggone narrow and one must needs steer a mighty straight line to keep out of the trees, hangars, bad ground and planes lining its side. Only last night while going off I nearly took the wireless outfit with me, there being a cross wind which drifted me side ways before I had hardly cleared the ground. As It was. banked up on one wing, I saw with relief the wires pass a foot under me. Such things as these, though, are everyday oc currence in the flying game, and are forgotten nearly as soon as finished, for since it's impossible to stop or back up one must continually keep mind and eyes ahead. To make things worse on our nar row landng strip, right In the ex act middle of the length of it runs a bump about a foot high. Never having landed a fast plane loaded with two guns, cartridges and a heavy motor, you will not see the significance of that bump. Believe me, it has every pilot worried on the "plete," and he carefully calculates his landing so that he will have stopped before he hjts It. Not that it's dangerous for the pilot. On the contrary, it isn't—not any more than thousands of other little things, but he is liable to smash his machine and especially the "Becky." No pilot wants to do that, although It will happen, as the saying goes, "in the best regulated families." Where the Trouble Is The sharp hump causes trouble in this way; the pilot is coming down to land, he gets near the ground, levels out some few feet above the ground and lots her ride along until she (the loses speed and starts to sink then he slowly pulls the tail down so that the tail skid (Becky) and wheels hit at the same time. He may hit the ground at varying speed from seventy to ninety miles an hour, all depending on the pilot, so you can see after he is actually on the ground he will roll a con siderable distance before stopping —and here is where the hump gets No News Received About Railroad Man Missing From Home Since July 6 h ... /" m. * ■LiL FRANK C. SJ^ITH Frank C. Smith, the Pennsylvania Railroad freight fireman, who disap peared from his home. 2634 North Sixth street, on Saturday, July 6. Is still missing. He Is five feet eleven and a half Inches In height, weighs about 160 pounds, has dark hair, brown eyes and dark complexion. A slight scar on either right or left cheek, while-two fingers on his left hand nre also scarred from slight operations. He was wearing a dark green pinch-backed suit. Panama hat. white shirt with lavendar leaf, light necktie, white socks and high tan abouts should be furnished to Mrs. Frank C. Smith, the police or given over Di*l phone 6201—6963, in his dirty work, for rolling along the ground at this speed he hits the hump, and zooie! up In the air he bounces. Having neither enough speed to hold him in the air, and therefore his controls having no ef- f ect - h® j" Bt naturally comes back to Mother Earth with a resounding bump, and something naturally gives; as the landing gear of an air plane is not made to stand an "ele vator" landing. Since the last letter nothing has happened of note, although I've been in the air twice, once flying back of Rheims and over the new battlefield 'with four other Spads. We saw no Huns however, which was a good thing for my guns were not working. I tried them twice, but only got a couple of cracks out of one of them and the other would not speak at all, trying them both again neither would work, so being no good up there with only a good motor I came home. • Up Again Last evening I went up again, hut I after I had climbed over the clouds at 3,000 meters my motor began knocking, vibrating and making more peculiar noises than two lovers watching the moon come up. I had no desire to keep company with such a motor and promptly came home again, and say maybe 1 didn't make some landing! Golly! I sure was proud of it, because you know when I wrote the last letter, two smashed "Beckies" stood against me as result of bad landings, and this time I sat lier down as_ lightly as a leaf, so easily did I 'touch the ground, I hardly knew I was there, and to make me more pleased with myself we stopped several feet from that doggone hump, even crowed about It at dinner and Putnam lost no time in reminding me of the busted 'Beckies," but even that did not lower my optimism, for you could surely tell how sad I felt in the last letter. Bad 'Humor You know I'm flying a Spad now, armed with two guns, lots of cart ridges and about a million instru ments. I am getting used to hand ling these numerous Instruments now though, and golly, but there Is a lot watch and thus keep our water at the cooled we have a thermometer to watch and thus keep our water a the right temperature. This gives the most trouble of all, because If the motor Is run at full speed down low the water begins to boil, up high where it is cold very little trouble Is experienced, except when diving, and then one must shut the shutters, which are on the radiator in front so the water won't freeze up. Some times one forgets to put the cat out and shut the shutters when diving. ["Don't Come to Germany" ! Write Returned Prisoners, ' Telling of Home Conditions London, July 1-4. Germans who have been interned In England and Gorman prisoners of war who have recently been sent back to Germany from England are not happy when they reach the Fatherland. Letters they write prove their surprise and dismav when they discover the true state of things in Germany. One let i ter from a prisoner sent back to Lrer manv reads: ! "About 10 o'clock in the morning I we left for the good old !• athcrland. I The tirst stop we made was at Goch. i in Germany, where we were ke_pt six davs for examination. From there 1 I was sent to Dortmund, where I was forced by military authority to work in a munitions factory. I stuck at it for three days. I tried my best, but 1 was not strong enough. The third day I told them I was too weak to do such hard work and left the P '"ln the Bezirks command I got the order to do only Government work otherwise I should be taken for the army—and I thought to get my liberty in the Fatherland. I was really worse off than at the English camp. On the night of the I deserted into Holland. It was a I foggv night and a long and danger- I rus march. Well, dear friend. I think vou would have done the same. So much for them. If they had caught me, I should have had a bad time, I believe. But now I am out of It. and I give you one word of advice. Whatever you do, don't apply for re patriation." Another prisoner who was sent to Germany writes: "I have been here about ten days. But. what a disil lusion! It Is no more as It used to be. All Is strange, and one rushes about like a lost sheep. Our business is absolutely dead." The following Is a message sent to a prisoner In England from Ger many: "You are In Heaven as com pared with us. Don't eome to the Fatherland, If you can help. We are all famished." Notice to Merchants Offlce and salesroom of National Cash Register Co. will be closed till day Saturdays until middle of Sep tember. N. R. BLACK, Sales Agent. or forgets to open them again when climbing. So Putnam did the other day when he dove on some Boches— shut the shutters and then interested in the fight forgot all about them, and pretty soon his water was boil ing, steam coming out of his tank like an engine ready to leave the station. His temperature was way above the danger point, so he promptly dove Tor home, wondering what in Sam Hill was wrong. Judg ing from the humor he was in when hv landed, the warm remarks he was addressing " to that must have made the temperature go up ten more degrees. Putnam's Work He got one Hun though since joining this escadrille, he has gone through the Huns like a whirlwind having bnocked down three officially, and last night oowled over five out of a patrol of ten. He's a wonder but details of his fights have to be pried out of him and then they are very Unsatisfactory. About all he will say is that he dove at the Hun, held his fire until he say the pilot's head clearly and then let go point blank with both guns, indeed much the same as his ancestor at Bunker Hill, who waited until he saw the whites of their eyes. Anyway we had learned the secret —get up close and then shoot. Quite simple indeed to think about but practically it takes some nerve to calmly hold your tire until you nearly hit his plane, all the time wondering whether your motor will respond when you pull up to climb out of that nest of hornets, and whether your guns are working; also it while you are interested In the Hun directly in Front, another don't maneuver and get on your'tail. Nothing in Details My plane (should be ready for to night, it being under repairs all morning, as last night a magneto broke, along with several wires, so I was wise in coming down instead of going to the lines as I had a reckless idea of doing. In that case 1 would have surely gone "en panne,' with so much of my motor busied, and just now that's dang erous, for the grain crops are grow ing making former good landing fields nothing but high grass and grain. Landing in such stuff means a somersault sure —and maybe other things, so I have n desire of being put to the test of picking out a Held —u nice green one—from way up on high and get down to find it's com posed of rippling grain From our usual altitude of 5,000 meters such details cannot be noticed as all green fields look alike. Even l-OE-ds are hard to find, and railroads almost impossible, and of late the sky is nearly always polluted with big white bollowy clouds, which sure are a nuisance for one can only see where he is at through the holes in the clouds, and these Spads are blind enough without that. Looking out over the side about all the pilot can gee beneath him is his lower wing. Honestly I was over the city of Rheims the other day and was look ing everywhere for it, finally 1 stood up on one wing and there it was right under me, hidden by my wing all the time. Yea boy! It's a great life if you don't weaken! Don't for get to send my mail to the Y. M. C. A., address in Paris, for I may move any minute. WALTER P. S. Am sending enclosed two pictures. Did you get them? (To censor) —Say! If you won't pass the whole picture, please cut out little me and send it. It's of no military importanc to the Huns unless they use it to frighten their children. Sergeant Putnam's wonderful work in downing five enemy planes in one day was told in Associated Press dispatches from the front last month and Putnam is a descendant of General Israel Putnam, "Old Put"' of Revolutionary fame and has been flying with Shaffer for some time. Ills record is one of the best yet made by Americans at the front. What To On Picnics You will be going to picnics this summer and here as everywhere else the United States food adminis tration asks your co-operation. Don't pack up more food than you will eat. If there is anything left, take it home. Wheat bread sandwiches are taboo, so is beef. But there Is a vast variety to choose from neverthe less. Her els a list of meats—things which we cannot ship abroad, Wien erwursts, picnic ham, summer sau sage, beef tongue. Instead of meat—Chicken, fish, hard boiled or devilled eggs, game. Sandwich fillings, cream cheese or cottage cheese, chopped egg and pepper, date and nut, cress, sulmon and mayonnaise, honey and nut, chopped chicken and celery, peanut butter and chopped celery. Vegetables—Tomatoes with salt, peppers, corn on cob (roasting ears), potatoes (bake In coals). Fruits—Apricots, bananas, berries, cherries, melons, peaches, pears, i plums. JULY 15, 1918. $50,000,000 Offered on Bethlehem Steel Notes New York, July 15.—The banking syndicate which has been arranging for the new financing of the Beth lehem Steel Corporation will offer to-day a $50,000,000 issue of 7 per cent, secured notes of the corpora tion, maturing serially from one to five years, at prices to yield inves tors from 7% to 7% per cent., de pending upon the maturity. The notes will be secured by pledge of $70,000,000 of thirty-year sinking fund 6 per cent, bonds is sued under a new consolidated mort gage, in which the Bethlehem Steel Company will join. The indenture securing these notes will provide that the corporation will not declare or pay dividends on its commoon stock which would result in reducing the net current assets of the corporation and its subsidiaries below the face amount of these notes than out standing. It is also provided that the new 7 per cent, notes shall be convertible at the option of the holder into the thirty-year sinking fund 6 per cent, bonds on 6V& percent. basis. Final Settlement to Be Made in Escheating Funds Counsel to-day notified the Dau phin county court that final dispo sition can be made in the escheat proceedings to get unclaimed funds of the Fifth Avenue Savings anil Loan Association, which hps been in the hands of tile receiver, Harry S. Calvert, for several years. Months ago it was found that unclaimed de posits and dividends totalling hun dreds of dollars could be escheated as they had not been used for more than 7 years. Upon advertising for claimants however, scores appeared and further hearings were held. To day T. C. McCarrell presented in court reports of Mr. Calvert, with the claims he allowed and stated that QrVHBII Mfffj ■K| a balance of more than S7OO remain ed unclaimed and would be turnet over to the state. ARRESTED FOR FIGHTING Albert and Richard Dorsey, well known to police, were arrested yes terdu.v on the charge of fighting in the streets. The fight occurred in Cowden street. John Rogers and his wife, Mattie, were arrested ai Fifth and Strawberry streets on t.h charge of disorderly conduct. It is said they were fighting in the street there. Nurses Recommend Cuticura Soap It appeals to them because it is so pure and cleansing. 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