Ulpl The Plotters A New Serial of East and West By Virginia Terhuae Van de Water CHAPTER XXV Like many another conceited ama-! teur detective, Clifford Chapin let j his imagination and excitement ruu away with his common sense and memory. Had he been more cool in judg ment, and less intoxicated by the; belief in his own Sherlock Holmes- j like genius, he would have remem-1 foered that his parents had not been 1 entirely out of touch with Elizabeth : Wade in the years that had passed t since their son had seen her on the farm, when she was a little girl whose face he did not now recall. j Of this he took no thought, but jumped to the conclusion that Doug- I las ade was a villain, making use of two unsophisticated country people to further his own ends. The self-appointed detective w-as at a loss as to what action to take, j He wanted time to think the mat ter out, time to get the essential j facts. Then he would face the girl; with them. She had flouted him, had snubbed him. had resented his | attempts at a harmless flirtation— just as if she had been the innocent and decent person she pretended to be: Elizabeth Wade had wounded his vanity. That is an offense that an egotist never pardons. This man was not honest enough < to acknowledge the truth. ' Instead, he called his resentment righteous; indignation. But he was destined not to carry his investigation as far as he ex- j pected. That afternoon he received a telegram from his employer. The man who ws filling young Chapin's! place during his vacation had oeen) taken suddenly and seriously ill. Clifford must start for Chicago to morrow morning. To do this, he would have to take a late evening I train from Midland to Manchester. In spite of his self-love, Clifford was fond of his parents, especially j of his mother. He could not bring himself to shock her by the knowl-1 edge he believed he had obtained, the, poor, unsuspecting soul, had acceded TO his father's plans about this girl. His father had trus*?d Wade. So both husband and wife had been made the tools of the unscru-1 pulous physician. But the son would j r.ot tell 'hem this. His decision was j to have it out" with this girl who; had snubbed him repeatedly. He' would warn her that unless she went| away he would divulge her shameful secret to his parents. A Bad Break To carry out this plan would not' be easy, he realized, when, that aft ernoon, he came out upon the ve randa where Elizabeth Wade sat reading. She looked so refined, so much the thoroughbred, that the man felt as if he had dreamed all ihe things that had filled his mind during the past few hours. "What are you reading?" he; queried, to gain time. Silentlv she held the back of the book toward him. It was "Middle-! march." | "I see," he commented awkwardly, j He was uot a reading man, and was' at a loss as to what to say. "Are you fond of George Eliot?"; rhe asked. There was something in her tone ; that convinced him that she sus- j pected he had never read a line by j that celebrated author. Was there i a gleam of amusement in her glance? j "I never cared much for his stuff," he replied. Now he was sure that there was a; laugh in her eyes. He even detected; a slight twitching of the corners of the mouth. "What's the matter?" he demand ed. "Nothing," she answered demurely resuming her reading. fie stood for a moment in uncom fortable silence: then, with a mut-j tered excuse, strolled off the veranda j and down '.he path. What break had he made? Who; was George Eliot, and why should | one not say that he "did not care j for his stuff?" The sight of John Butler downj in the orchard, where he had been | showing Talak how to spray fruit; trees, gave Clifford Chapin a sud-j den inspiration. He would try j learn from this college man what' his mistake had been. "Well," he greeted Butler easily, as he reached his side, "been busy, haven't you?" He. Talks to Butler "Yes," replied Butler, "I am usu ally busy. But I like it." "So do I," affirmed Clifford. "Go- 1 f&S3\ HOUSEWIVES Use Ammo, the Powdered Ammonia. Goes three times as far as liquid Am fiffijSjmonia. Nothing to equal it. Marvellous jKiplHj results. 12c. a can. At Your Grocer's. s§lg! BUY. AMMO NOW! WITMAN-SCHWARZ CO., DISTRIBUTORS Today BUSINESS is the one BIG OVERSHADOWINO VOCA- ■ TION. Get ready for it. Get ready for a big place in the business El world. 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Well," falling into step with Butler as he started from the) orchard —"I'm returning to the wild ( and woolly west to-night, you know." | He went on to explain that he had! received a telegram calling him back! to Chicago. "At first I was sorry, but, after all, I don't mind getting into the harness again," he remarked. "I was wondering just now, when I saw Miss Moore sitting there read-! ing a book by George Eliot, how women can be satisfied to sit quiet and read that kind of thing. I never care much about books. By the way. ( what do you think of George Eliot?" | Butler looked at him. puzzled.! Why should this chap try to discuss, literature. "Why—just what most people think. I suppose," he said, "that she was a very remarkable woman. I Don't you think so?" "Why—why—yes, yes, of course!"! So that was his break! George Eliot was a woman! And he had spoken to that girl about "his* stuff"! The blood rushed to his head. He was mortified. He was also angry, j Elizabeth had made him appear ri diculous. He would never forgive her. Well, she would behave in a dif ferent way when she knew what he knew about her! And, if he could, he would intimate to Butler that his "friend." Douglas Wide, was playing a game that no decent chap would stoop to. He would show them that all it v.-as not safe to make an enemp of him—Clifford Chapin! (To Be Continued) How to Conserve Canning and Packing For Win ter's U9e Explained in Detail lr National War Garden Experts. DRYING PUMPKIN' Pumpkins are bulky vegetables to store —why not try something new this year and dry them? It requires a sharp knife, some "elbow grease," a little common sense and sunshine. The free drying manual which the National War Garden Commission, Washington, will send in return for i a two-cent stamp gives detailed di- j rections for drying fruits and vege tables. There are two ways of preparing pumpkin for drying and both are satisfactory. Cut r into one-half inch strips, pare and clean. Blanch three minutes. Cold dip, remove surface \ moisture by pressing between clean j towels, and spread on drying traps, : platters, or dripping pans. Spread a single .thickness of paper or thin muslin first. The drying time is three I to four hours, starting at 110 degrees ' F. and raising gradually to 140 de grees F. The pumpkin may be cut in rings instead of strips, and these rings hung up over the kitchen stove or in the sun. Unless the air is very dry, the time required will be longer ; if the drying is done in the sun than in a drier, but less watching is nec essary and the product will have an j excellent flavor. The qommisslon will be glad to answer any questions written on one side of the paper and sent in a self-addressed stamped ' envelope. THE KAISER AS I KNEW ■HIM FOR FOURTEEN YEARS By ARTHUR X. DAVIS, D. D. S. HOW I BECAME THE KAISER'S DENTIST (Copyright, 1918. by the McCluro . Syndicate.) < CHAPTER HI Next door to my boyhood home. , in Piqua. Ohio, there lived a Ger- . man named Diffenbacher. He was; rather a grouchy individual and none I t of us had ever had very much to do' with him. Nevertheless, when. In 1899, I was . preparing to leave home, and the of-!* fice of Dr. E. S. Fuller. whe.ri I had , been working and studying- to take up the dental course at Lake'-Forest r University, Chicago, 111., this man: Diffenbacher came to say good-by, and a remark he made at the, time j has always impressed me as ha\ins' had a most uncanny significance in j view of later developments, al- ; though, of course, I realize it must; have been purely a coincidence. "I hear you are going away to 1 study dentistry," he declared, in rather broken English. "Yes. that's so." I replied. "Well, I wish you luck. Dr. Evans, the dentist, vho recently died in, Paris, he was dentist *o Napoleon 111. He was an American, too. I j prophesy that one day you will be. dentist to the Kaiser." I didn't pay much attention to his suggestion at the time, but it came | back to me rather strongly a day or two later, when, in conversation with Dr. Truman W. Brophy, the Dean of the Chicago Dental College, he said he saw great opportunities for Amer ican dentists in Germany and advised I me to take up the study of German.; Whether it was with these things \ in mind or not I do not now recall.; but it is a fact that while I was still I a dental student I organized a class! in German at the Hull House and; four other students and myself plug- i ged away at the language for three; or four months. During my first vacation while at college, I went to New York to get more practical experience in den-; tistry and became assistant to Dr. M. L. Rheim and it was through this connection that the opportunity to! practice abroad subsequently came to me. I graduated from college In 19021 and established myself in Chicago. 0 MAKING THE MOST OF OUR CHILDREN V A Series of Plain Talks to ® Parents By Ray C. Beery, A.8., M.A. T j President of the Parents Association. (Copyright, 1918, by the Parents Association, Inc.) No. 8 Ae Vou Making Pessimists or Optimists of Your Children? WE ALL know the pessimist— have suffered by his spleen. We all know the optimist— are glad to come into contact with him. As Robert Louis Stevenson says somewhere, when such a per son enters a room, it is as if another candle had been lighted. And the foundations of the de terminating attitude toward life are laid in childhood. You as a parent are laying the foundations. Pessimists are simply grown-up children who have never been taught in childhood not to whine and complain. Let us take an example. A mother said to me: My little boy years old whines nearly all the time. It seems as if he hardly can speak without whining, what can I do to get him to overcome this bad habit? Your whlr.ing child should be treated something like this: The first time he says anything in a whining tone, pay no more attention to him than if he had not uttered a word. About the second time he runs over the same thing, turn your face toward him, look him squarely in the eye and say, "Come here." When he comes to your knee, say rather slowly. "I will not listen to little boys who whine, any more. If you want me to hear you, you must talk without the whine. Now what is it you wanted to tell me? Smile immediately after saying this and no matter what he says, smile again and say, "There, that's better." If you treat htm this way for a few days, the whining will entirely disappear. It is simply a bad habit. Let him understand that you will not recogntxe his wants when he whines and, further, that you will not permit his whining. While you are trying to cure him. be sure to approve him a great dpal RKRIUSBXJRO TELEGKXFH About a year and a half" later I re-i ceived an invitation from Dr. Rheln I to go to New York to meet Dr. Al-j onzo H. Sylvester, an American den-; tist practicing in Berlin, and who! numbered the Kaiser among his pa-! tients. He bad come to America to j select an associate because his fa.il- > ing health made it impossible fori him to give his practice the attention: demanded. .It.is needless to say the receipt of this message brought old Diffen-j bacher's remark back to me with "renewed force, but even then I did not realize how accurate his plop-; hecy was to prove. Dr.* Sylvester had been in New York three weeks interviewing a number of dentists but he had found; no one to fill the position. The pos- ■ i sibilities he held out to me were most : alluring, but Germany seemed very 1 far away, and I allowed him to re turn to Germany without a definite acceptance of his proposition from me. Some days later, however. I de-: cided to accept It and cabled him ac- i ' cordingly. • I sailed on September 15, 1903, | ! arriving in Berlin on the 24th. Dr. Sylvester. I found, had been the Kaiser's dentist for more than . twenty-five • years, having treated k him ever since he was a boy. At the' time, dentistrv In Germany had not. yet attained the dignity of a profes-; sion—indeed, the German dentist of that period was hardly beyond the I barber class—and American dentists j were in general favor throughout! ' Europe. I The success of American dentists I i abroad dates back to the time of Na-I ! poleon 111, when Dr. Thomas W. i ; Evans, the Emperor's dentist, not; i only earned a wonderful reputation j for himself professionally, but played a most important part in European; politics. It was through his advice; and influence that the French re-i mained neutral during our Civil I War, and when the second French j Empire collapsed the Empress Hu- j ! genie made her escape through the : gates of Cans in a carriage with Dr Evans, disguised as his assistant. | Dr. Evan accumulated a fortune of several millions of dollars through: in his play. Let him see how far he can Jump, and no matter how short the distance, encourage him and praise him for his effort. A little of this sort of thing put into your routine will help you in quickly and effectively overcoming the bad habit. ."I have a daughter nine years old." writes another mother, "who has the habit of complain ing. She has a very sensitive disposition and she is forever grumbling about some ailment. If not that, it is something else. Please tell me how to overcome this tendency." This girl needs to have less attention paid to her when she com plains. She should be neither scold ed for complaining nor sympathized with in the least in regard to that about which she complains. Wheri she makes a complaining remark, act as if you had not heard. Keep her time filled with whole some activity. . Give her something else to think about beside her little imaginary ailments. Encourage her to play out doors as much as possi ble and to take a great deal of ex ercise. Interest her in helping you with the housework. Approve her a great deal both on how much she is able to do for you and on how well she does the work. Talk and Joke with her while work ing together so that she has a really good time. Be optimistic, yourself; your daughter gradually will become so. Watch for improvement and whenever you see any, tell her about It. When a child follows its mother, whining and complaining, the na tural impulse is to say: "Oh, my dear child, you just worry the life eut of mother! Can't you sit down and be still a minute? Why don't you go outside and play a while? But this only aggravates the habit. | The positive method suggested is the 1 only satisfactory one. i profitable real estate investments! which had been suggested to him i from time to time by the Emperor in! appreciation of their friendship. While Dr. Sylvester was less of a: factor in the politics of Germany! than Dr. Evans had been in those of France, he was very highly regarded professionally by the Kaiser and the royal family. He told me that some! years before he had been summoned i to the palace to attend the Kaiser's mother for some minor trouble, and that he had sent her carriage back, empty with the message that if her Majesty wanted his services she i would have .to come to his office the j same as other patients. Needless to! say. she did nothing of the kind, but Bismarck subsequently called on the dentist professionally and explained that he did so because he had ,ad- ! mired the independent spirit the doc tor had displayed on that occasion, although, iie added, it had very nearly resulted in his being sent out of Germany. Dr. Sylvester's residence and of fices were cn the Tiergarten, and it was there that I commenced the practice of dentistry in Germany. It was undersfood that I was to attend the Kaiser right from the start, and although Sylvester explained to me exactly what I was to do when his Majesty arrived, I must confess I looked forward to the ordeal with considerable anxiety. It was almost five months after I had been established as Sylvester's associate that we received word from the Ka>6er's Kammerdiener, or body servant, over the telephone, that his Majesty would be at our place the following morning at 8 a. m. This meant that we were to can cel all other appointments for the greater part of the following morn ing, as it was the invariable practice to clear the way. so to speak, for the Kaiser that he might not encounter other, patients when he called. I don't believe I slept very sound ly that night. I know that I was very nervous the next morning when at about 7:30 three or four secret service police arrived at our place and stationed themselves outside the premises to see that everything was safe for the Kaiser's arrival. A few minutes later a squad of uniformed police arrived and guarded the ap proach to the house. Shortly before S o'clock I went to a window to watch the Kaiser coming down 'he Tiergarten and I saw the familiar white cockade on his footman's hat, tr. the carriage, drawn by two white horses with red plumes, was the Kai ser himself. Another carriage fol lowed the Kaiser's and contained his adjutants. When he came into our office Syl vester received him. A few moments later word was sent out to me, and I went in to meet the Kaiser. He was in full uniform and wore a sword. Hit kingly bearing was very conspicuous, although, as he ex-; tended his hand and grasped mine so hard that he nearly crushed the bones, he was making an effort, I knew, to appear as democratic as possible. "Well, young man," he greeted me, rather effusively, "you have come to Berlin, I understand, to make your home. X hope you will have a happy life among us. You look a little pale. We'll have to feed you and fatten you upon good German food." It wasn't lack of food that made me pale, but I didn't tell him so. The fact was that this was the first time I had ever been presented to a king, and the prospect of having to work oh this monarch rather unnerved me. Dr. Sylvester asked him if he would go to my operating room, which he readily consented to do. When he was seated in my chair, I examined his teeth and found them to be in rather a neglected condition. As I have mentioned, this was the first time in more than five months that he had visited Sylvester. It was during that period that he had un dergone the operation on his throat which started the rumor that he was suffering from cancer, his father having died from cancer of the throat. As a matter of fact, as I subsequently learned from Count Taube, the Swedish Ambassador to Germany, whose physician per formed tho operation on the Kaiser, no anaesthetic had been employed on that occasion and the operation could hardly have been of the char acter surmised. I had to work on him steadily for an hour and a half, and once or twice he leferred to a wrist watch but he showed no particular impa tience. As a matter of fact, through out all his subsequent relations with me he never seemed to mind how long he remained in my office after my work was over, although, .tfter a more or less lengthy discussion on some subject of interest, Tie would sometimes say: "Well. Davis, you kept the Minister of Marine waiting for me Just half an hour," or, "Now, Davis, I've got to keep my appoint ment with the Reichskanzler. I'm forty minutes late already." On this occasion I firmly believe I went through a far more severe or-i deal than my patient. I recollect; clearly how the mouth-mirror rat- i tied against his teeth when I in serted it in his mouth the first time because my hand shook so violently. Perhaps the fact I was then only 25 years old partially accounts for my nervousness on this occasion. When it was all over the Kaiser got out of the chair and shook hand 9 with me again, and then, catching a glimpse of my pale countenance, de clared: "Well, young man, you'd better go out and eat a beefsteak that thick'." and he indicated with his thumb and finger a thickness of about two Inches. Six times that month the Kaisei came to me, but his subsequent visit) never disturbed me. X was neve again ill at ease in his presence. Oi the contrary. I looked forward to hi coming because of the extremely in teresting views he almost invariabl; expressed. On January 10, 1905, Sylvestei failed to make his appearance in hi) office, and as I wanted to speak t( him regard,ng an X-ray picture toi a patient who was waiting in my of fice, I went to look for him. I found him in bed covered ir blood. In his hands was a long pis tol with a gold-plated barrel and a pearl handle. He had shot himsell through the head. His failing healtf and an accumulation of debts had caused him deep depression for some time, but I had had no idea that it would lead to that, and the tragedy was a great shock to me. The passing of Dr. Sylvester left me in full charge of his depleted practice. I was not at all sure that the Kaiser would continue as my patient. There were now a number of able German as well as many American dentists practicing in Ber lin, and I thought that the Kaiser would, perhaps, select one of them now that Sylvester was gone. A day or two after the tragedy, however, I was looking out of the window when the Kaiser, walking with two officers, passed my house and, observing me at the window, waved his hand in such a friendly manner that I concluded he intended! to come to me as usual. Two or three weeks later he did j pay me a visit. "My, my, my, what has been go-' | A Sale of I | Sample Bedroom Suites J | A Special Feature of Our Semi-Annual Furniture Sale B Dj' Here's a buying opportunity that comes but once in a very long p H time. • jg These sample bedroom suites are from factories so far distant that p H owing to the freight congestion we are compelled to discontinue them m for the time being. Note the savings—see the suites —you'll agree that £= H they are bargains. 1= 9-Piece Ivory Enamel Bedroom Suite—Chinese Chippen- lUi dale design—all dustproof construction—must be sold com- Tl 111 plete—regularly $323.00. 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Then he told mo that he really believed Sylvester had become insane because he had heard I that some time before the doctor had • struck his head violently against a ■ sharp point of a low chandelier and perhaps the blow had injured his brain. 1 I told him tbat I planned to move my office. 'l "Yes, Davis, I suppose you will wish to do that." he replied, "but I I hope you won't go above the ground ■j floor. I don't like to have to go up ii stairs." Two or three months later X se- j cured a suitable place in the Lennes- j trasse, overlooking the Tiergarten, and apparently my quarters were not ! distasteful to his Majesty, because he came to .me regularly during the; three years that I remained there, j My office faced the park and was located in the ground floor. The Kaiser and many other of my motei distinguished patients, I knew, would 1 not care to risk observation from a] house on the opposite side of the, street, and X kept that in mind when. \ at the expiration of my lease, I moved to Koeniggraetzer Strasse in I 1908 and to the corner of Tiergarten ! strasse and Bendler strasse in 1911. At the end of the year after Syl vester's death I received a personal call from the Kaiser's household doc tor asking me to submit a bill to the Kaiser for my professional services. I knew that Sylvester had never ren dered the Kaiser a bill, and I told the doctor that I preferred not to do so. "I appreciate the honor of treat ing the Kaiser," I said, "and I do not care to put in a bill for my work." I knew he had given Syl vester presents from time to time, although never anything of any in trinsic value, but I was aware that X had hard work ahead to rebuild Syl vester's practice and that the pres tige of having the Kaiser come to my office would be a great help. "But the Kaiser wishes it," the doctor persisted, "and besides every one else is paid—the Kaiser pays his doctors, why shouldn't he pay his dentist?" There was really no reason why I should work for the Kaiser for nothing. Indeed, apart from the prestige involved, working for the Kaiser was not a particularly remu nerative proposition. It meant the demoralization of my routine for a portion of the day whenever he called, and while that was not so serious in the early days, later on when other members of the royal family came to me for treatment and expected to be taken care of irre spective of such other appointments ! as I may have made, the situation | was very provoking as well as com ] ical. Nevertheless, I submitted a very i moderate bill for my first year's | work, charging only my regular fee ! for the treatments I had given the | Kaiser during the year. Within a I few days there came a package con ! taining new bills in payment of the account, and I was very much sur j prised to find that his Majesty had ; doubled the amount, an act which | was not at all in keeping with the ' stingy character the whole royafl i family was known to possess, i Indeed, some years later, ;when I ! submitted my bill for professional j services to one of the Kaiser's sons, j he sent me a postal order in pay ment, but deducted the cost of the | postal order. 1 (To Be Continued.) 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