UWI Rcadiivflfor^&rciQivand all the EsreviKj ; THE PLOTTERS A New Serial of Ea6t and West By Virginia Terhune Van de Walei Chapter XXXI i (Copyright, 1918, Star Company) j Amos Chapin's words lingered in I Elizabeth's mind that night after | she had gone to her room. "I don't think there's the leas: need of your brother's coming on , to look the farm over this fall," he had said. Douglas Wade's sister knew that I Chapin did not want the owner of! the property on the scene just yet. j It would not be to his interest to have Douglas see how well the place was looking. That bit of informa- j tion, however, he would obtain from j John Butler. Amos must know this, j Y'et he based some of his hope of acquiring the property on Douglas; Wade's deferring his visit East to a! later date. Elizabeth understood his scheme,; complicated as it might seem at the lirst glance. Amos had asked his i son to arrange for a loan of enough money to enable him to buy the farm. He would wait to hear deti-. nitely from Clifford before making an offer to Douglas. If he could make this offer while the young I physician was in actual need of' money, there was every chance of| its acceptance. Since Wade was paying John But-j ler no salary, it was plain that he' could not afford to pay one. Since Butler was willing to give his sor vices without remuneration, it was evident that he knew that his friend, the owner of the farm, could not afford to pay him. and he was. therefore, willing to help him over a. hard place. Elizabeth appreciated that all! signs pointed to her brother's need, of funds. She shivered a little atj this consciousness. She knew —nobody else so well as! If ! ■^r\ Cuticura Quickly Heals Baby's Itching Skin Bathe him with hot water and Cuti- , cura Soap. Dry gently and apply Cuticura Ointment to any redness, j roughness, rashes or chafings. 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This was the home that had belonged to her grandfather and to her father—the home to which her parents had come as bride and groom, and to which, later, they had brought their chil dren each Summer so that the little ones might have a few weeks of country life. .V Romantic Spot For Elizabeth there was a j*alo of romance about the place, and it was associated with some of the happiest memories of her young lite. And now she and Douglas might lose it. The only thing that could enable them to keep it would be a i sudden and phenomenal success fori the young physician. The girl had often reminded her-' self how much depended on John' Butler's iecovery. Lately it had seemed certain that he was on the high road to health. Yet if his ill-j ness had been, as Douglas had as- 1 serted, entirely a matter of nerves. \ what might be the effect upon him I of learning that his physician and. his physician's sister had been de- ; ceiving him as to their relations to ward one another—that "Lizzie j Moore" was really Elizabeth Wade, j that the girl whom he was learning to care for (she acknowledge this; to herself now) had deceived hint systematically and persistently? What could she say if he accused! her of all this? Clifford Chapin would tell him the' facts. There was no way of pre-1; venting that. The dies was cast. I The mischief had been done by now. Jchn Butle 1- knew at this very in-j stant that she was Douglas Wade's; sister. She prepared for bed, then put on! her wrapper and slippers and walked softly up and down her room, too nervous to sleep. She must think I out some course of conduct, some-' thing to tell this man were he to; demand an explanation of her. She longed to confess the truth to him. It was not so bad after all.| At least it did not look very darning, to her. Yet from the viewpoint of: the man himself it would certainly i not be pleasing. She would have to say that her' brother had told her that John But-j ler was the victim of over-study and, nervousness, increased by too much care from his mother and by an ex aggerated idea on her part and his of the gravity of his condition. I A Hard Question Nobody 'ikes to be informed thatj we are not ashamed of the ills of the flesh. We are horribly ashamed; of any mental twist. To be sure she could inform Johnj Butler that his mind was now all j right. She laughed bitterly to herself asj she reflected on the way in which j he would receive such an assur-i ance from her. He would resent' the suggestion that he had ever been! mentally unsettled—in short, that! he had been a hypochondriac. What' man would not be angry at such an! accusation? • I She could not explain to him that I it was more his mother's fault than ' his. He was not the sort of man j who would allow any one to inti ! mate that his mother was to blame j for anything. She might as well be honest with ■ herself. She was afraid to confess, 'the truth, for she wanted to helpi ! Douglas to the full extent of her | power. I She 3tood still, as if a sudden I self-revelation smote her. Yes. she wanted to help Douglas. | At tirst that had been her one aim. ! But now another desire exceeded ! that. She wanted to stand well in Butler's estimation. She realized that it mattered tremendously to her what he thought of her. She had learned to depend upon his friendship. Was "friendship" the correct word? She asked that question sternly. Before she could answer it another question thrust it self into her brain. Was friendship the only feeling that she herself had for John But ler? (To Be Continued) Bringing Up Father Copyright, 1918, International News Service *— * *— * By McManu. I* "*1 IMttSr OM I I V MY - WHAT ) ~ I A I ~'l I ~ ™JL<u7l IPKr rv.fiF^P? THE KAISER AS I KNEW HIM FOR FOURTEEN YEARS By ARTHUR N. DAVIS, D. D. S. , (Copyright, 1918, by the McClure Newspaper Syndicate) (Continued.) The long succession of wars ini tiated by Frederick the Great from 1740 to 1786 resulted in the annex ation of Silesia to the small King dom of Prussia, and satisfied that monarch for the time being, al though his military leaders, flushed with victory urged him to continue his reign of conquest. For a while the military spirit in Prussia slum bered and when it was ultimately aroused by Napoleon's dream of world conquest, England and Prus sia had to unite against that ambi tious leader to retain their own do minions. For a generation or two Europe was at peace. It was too weak to tight. When it had to some extent recuperated, Prussia decided that the time had come to renew its career of conquest and on January 21, 1864, declared war against Denmark. Un able to put up an effective resist ance against its stronger neighbor, Denmark was forced to sue for peace and ceded the provinces of, Schleswig and Holstein to the con queror. The war lasted just forty six days, and Prussia acquired two North Sea ports, which was the goal for which she started out. On June 18, 1866, Prussia declar ed war against Austria with the idea of adding territory to the south, and the success of her armies against the larger but less warlike empire was so pronounced that in fifteen days the war was practically over and Prussia confiscated the large provinces of Hanover, and Bavaria and several lesser provinces. Prussia had now added territory to her dominions which was many times the size of her original king dom, and the great Bismarck at once set about "consolidating" his sains, as we say nowadays. When conditions were ripe for a resumption of thb program, a war was provoked with Napoleon 111, of France, the situation being so adroit ly maneuvered that it was the French who declared war, although they were ill prepared to wage It against such a thoroughly-prepared and victory-crazed adversary as Prussia. War was declared on July 17, 18 70. Forty-seven days later. ©MAKING THE MOST OF ~ OUR CHILDREN U A Series of Plain Talks to /By Ray C. Beery, A.8., M.A. I " Ape President of the Parents Association. x. >/ (Copyrighted, 1918, by The Parents Association, inc.) No. 12. Arc You Helping l our Children to Conquer Bad Habits? IT IS NOT enough to worry about bad habits. You must do some thing constructive to overcome them. Many parents actually make the bad habits of their children worse simply because they do not know now to go about correcting them or because they apply wrong methods. But American parents are giving more and more attention to child training, and the time is not far distant when they will realize that it is far easier as well as far wiser to nip bad habits in the bud than to cure them once they are estab lished. Very often the correct meth od of breaking a habit would have prevented it. had it been used soon enough. Here is a physical habit. A mother writes to me: "My daughter nine years old keeps biting off her finger nails almost continually. No one alse in the fam ily does it. Please advise how to break her of this habit.' Use this plan: Some time, Just after she has had a bath and put on her best clothes, have her come over to the chair in which you are seated and talk to her in this fashion: "Which one of your fingers is the most nearly perfect? I like the one next to your little one—your ring-finger—best, don't you? None of them has a bad shape but'l think this one really has the prettiest shape of any. You see this nail has such a fine curve. It almost forms a perfect circle. The best way to keep the outside edge of the nail inperf est shape is to use a nale file. You have noticed, haven't you. how beautiful Luctle's hands and fingers are. I think she must use a file be cause her nails are so perfect. I bought a new file to-day when I was shopping and you and I can both use it. After using this file for a tmuusstmo QgfcSftl TEUEGR APBC on September 2, the decisive battle was fought, the main French army and the Emperor of France himself being surrounded at Sedan and forced to surrender. The price that France paid for being in the way of Prussia's steamroller was the loss of Alsace and Lorraine and an in demnity of $1,000,000,000. Since 1870 Germany has been con sistently building up her resources, military, commercial and colonial, with the one object of assuaging her thirst for dominion when the proper time should come. It came. Ger many thought, on June 29, 1914, when the Archduke Franz Ferdi nand of Austria, the successor to the Austrian throne, and his wife were murdered at Sarajevo, and the pres ent war was the result. This war. It was confidently ex pected, would be but a repetition of the Prussian conquests of 1884, 1866 and 1870. Each of those wars was ( over in less than sixty days so far as the ultimate outcome was con cerned. Ninety days ought to be sufficient to win the fourth. It might have been if the German program, which contemplated the capture ot Paris by Sedan Day, September 2, had not been foiled by the glorious battle of the Marne. Subsequent de velopments are too recent to re quire restatement. There can be no doubt that if Germany had succeeded in her ef forts to gain control of the major | part of Europe she would have soon looked toward the Western Heml- I sphere and the Far East. This program 'is fairly indicated by the course of events as history lays them bare, but I have the actual word of the Kaiser to substantiate At one of his visits to me shortly after the beginning of the war, we were discussing England s participa tion in It. "What hypocrites the English are!" the Kaiser exclaimed. "They had always treated me so well when I visited them I never be lieved they would have come into this war. They always acted as if they liked me. My mother was English, you know. I always thought the world was big enough for three week or two, I'll see whether my linger nails look as well as yours." The idea is to till her mind with the positive idea, not even mention ing the negative one. If you keep talking this positive idea, omitting the negative, it will soon have its telling effect in breaking the unde sirable habit. If the daughter herself should speak of her tendency to bite the nails, comment on it in this manner. "There are two reasons why 1 would rather not see nails bitten off. One is because it mars the beauty of the nails and the other is that the lower class of people—l mean ignorant, uneducated people—so often have the habit of biting their nails. We should not want good people ever to see your nails in that condition.' Show the daughter exactly how to use the tile. When she first applies it to her nails, say something like this: "Why, you know how already. You go at it just as if you had always used it. In a week or so, we'll begin comparing our nails every day and see which of us can keep them look ing the better." The natural thing for most parents to do when they want to cure a habit is to talk to the child about that habit. In the case just cited, for example, we can easily imagine a mother saying, "Helen. I declare, you keep biting those nails like a little baby! Why don't you keep your nails pretty like other girls?" But this appeal is wrong. The mother might as well say nothing. In fact, the habit may even be made worse by wrong suggestion. The method advised is the proper one, substituting as it does a new habit for the old. In breaking any habit, indeed, it is better to create a new habit of thought by a positive process than to And fault with the old habit and provide nothing to take its place. of us and we could keep it for our selves—that Germany could control the continent of Europe. Englanu, tnrougn her vast possessions ana fleet, could control the Mediterran ean and the Far East, and America could dominate the Western Hemi sphere. How long it would have been be fore Germany would have tried to wrest dominion from England can readily enough be imagined, and with the whole of Europe and the Far East under her thumb, America would undoubtedly have proved too tempting a morsel for the Kaiser's or his descendants' rapacious maw to have resisted. He said that he be lieved that the world was "big enough for three;" he didn't say it was too big for one. What was really in his mind, however, is indicated by a passage in an address he made some twenty five years ago in which, as the Rev. Dr. Newell Dwight Hillis has point ed out, he used these words: "From my childhood I have been under the influence of five men — Alexander. Julius Caesar, Theodoric ! 11, Napoleon and Frederick the Great! These five men dreamed their dream j of a world empire; they failed. I i am dreaming my dream of a world I empire, but I shall succeed!" The Kaiser's plan to dominate Eu rope included the control of Turkey, and he made every effort to strengthen that country so that she might be a valuable ally in the war to come. When Italy took Tripoli from Tur key before the Balkan war, I men tioned to the Kaiser how oppor tunely Italy had acted but the Kaiser dismissed my remark with an excla mation of displeasure, realizing, of course, that Turkey's loss was in a sense his own, since he had planned to make Turkey his vassal. To that end he had sent German officers to train the Turkish army and had supplied them with guns and munitions. With an eye to the future, too. he had constructed the great Bagdad Railway. When the Balkan war broke out in 1912 the Kaiser had great con fidence that the German-trained Turkish army would acquit itself creditably and that in the outcome ,of that conflict his European pro gram would make considerable prog ress. He told me that he had a map of the war area placed in his motor and that with pegs he followed the fortunes of the fighting armies while he was traveling. The Turkish defeats were natural ly a great disappointment to him. "These Montenegrins, Servians and Bulgarians are wonderful fighters." he confessed to me. shortly after the war began. "They're out-of door people and they have the strength and stamina which fighters require. If they keep on the way they re going they'll be in Constan tinople in a week! Confound those Turks! e furnished them guns and ammunition and trained their officers, but if they won't fight, we can t make them. We've done our best!" The defeat of the Turks lessened their value to the Kaiser as an ally and he immediately put into effect a measure for increasing the Ger man army from 650,000 to 900,000 to restore the balance of power, they said. Por this purpose a "W ehrbeitrag," or increased arma ment tax, was levied on capital, and incidentally, I was informed that 1 would have to pay my share. The idea of paying a tax to upbuild the German army, which was already so powerful that it menaced the peace of the world, did not appeal fo me at all and I spoke to Ambassador Gerard about it. He advised me to pay it under protest, agreeing with me that there was no reason why an American should'be required to con tribute to the German war budget. However, I had to pay it. 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That is OPENS 8:30 A7M.—CLOSES THURSDAY AT NOONSH|S 1 Kaufman's War Time | I Preparations For the 1918-19 | | Fall and Winter Seasons 1 1 On The Largest Scale Ever! 1 ii OUR 13 YEARS STUDY OF THE NEEDS I j| OF HARRIRBURG PEOPLE HAS TAUGHT 1 ii US HOW TO MEET THE PRESENT CON- | fl DITIONS. 1 | AND THIS IS CERTAIN— W Our UNDERSELLING POLICY, which has been in || force since the beginning of this business, must and will j|j hi be maintained —for our obligation to the people of this l|j b community, namely, to bring to them the best merchan- [ju [| dise the markets afford at the lowest possible price, with out sacrificing quality—is the foundation upon which this, ps 1 THE LARGEST READY-TO-WEAR DEPARTMENT | >| STORE in this section of the State- is built. j| No amount of opportunity for war profits will ever (|j hj tempt us to deviate from our set policy. We are looking m b ahead. The years to come are too dear to us than to avail !| ourselves of present abnormal price conditions for greater | profit. p | It is worth more to our business to UPHOLD our UN- DERSELLING policy. And because we adhere to our |jy b way of merchandising YOU benefit to the fullest. 1 We Have An Immense Stock of Merchandise i I Purchased Beginning Way Back in January I I and from Day to Day up to the Present 1 This means two important things to YOU: || First: We will be prepared with the assortments and (|i the necessary stocks for the big Fall and Winter business. j|j K Second: You will have a share in the price advan- ||J b tages —savings that would be simply out of the question |jj b were we to buy the goods to-day. j|j H And. Finally: WE WILL RENDER THE UTMOST IN I® SERVICE BY OUR CAPABLE SALESFORCE, AT THE jM SAME TIME CONDUCTING OUR STORE AFFAIRS ff) Ii ALONG THE LINES SUGGESTED BY THE GOVERNMENT AND WHICH ARE DESIGNED TO HELP WIN THE WAR. g| KEEP IX TOUCH WITH THESE KAUFMAN STORE yj TALKS AS THEY API'EAR ITiOM TIME TO TIME. S | OPENS 8:30 A. M.—CLOSES THURSDAY AT NOON 'AUUGST 28, )918. why I am developing our world mar kets, just as your country secured Hawaii and the Philippines as step ping-stones to the markets of the Far East, as I understand it. That's why I developed the wonderful city of Kian-Chau." His plans in this connection were changed somewhat apparently by the developments of the present war, for ne told me that when it was over the ! Germans would not emigrate to the United States any more. "No more American emigration I i! for us after the war," he said. "My ' people will settle In the Balkans and develop and control that wonderful country. I have been down there and I know it is a marvelous land for our purposes." The Kaiser's vision of the part he would take in the reconstruction of stricken Europe was indicated by a remark he made to me in 1916 when I was visiting him at the army head quarters at Pless. "Here I am nearly 60 years of age," he soliloquized, "and must re build the whole of Europe!" (To Be Continued.) 5
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