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 !
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WEDNESDAY EVENING,
she—just how hard up Douglas
was. She knew that this was the
hardest Summer of his or her exist
ence. The larm was a dead weight
upon him. lie might feel it was his
duty to part with it. Yet how he
would hate to do so—how— she
would hate to see the dear old place
pass into other hands! 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
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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.
The German efforts at coloniza
tion, which were more or less of a
failure because the Germans refus
ed to inhabit the German posses
sions, and the measures adopted to
conquer the commercial markets of
the world were an important part of
the program of world domination
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which she had laid out for herself,
and it is not unlikely that if she had
confined her efforts along those lines
she might have progressed further
along her chosen path than she has
advanced by bathing the world in
blood.
"I have nearly 70,000,000 people,'
the Kaiser said to me on one occa
sion when we were talking of ex
pansion, "and we shall have to find
room for them somewhere. When
we became an Empire England had
her hands on nearly everything. Now
we must fight to get ours. That is
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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.)
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