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THE PLOTTERS
A New Serial of East and West
By Virginia Terbune Van de Water
CHAPTER XXXV.
(Copyright, 1918, Star Co.) }
"Oh. Pa!"
The ejaculation was Mrs. Chapin's.
Bhe stood at the screen door, hor
face white, her hands trembling.
"Oh. Pa!" she repeated as her
husband made no response.
He was gazing at the dog, where
it lay right across the path at his
feet.
At the reiterated appeal Amos
looked up impatiently, hushing with j
anger.
"Well, what of it?" he challenged, i
"If a dog attacks me I have a right:
to defend myself, haven't I?"*
John Butler, hearing the shot, had
come out of the house bv the front <
door and now spoke. Until then
Amos had not known that he was at!
his side.
"You could have hit the dog over'
the head with the butt of the gun," j
he remarked. "You would not have
killed him then, for he is certainly!
stone dead."
"I don't care if he is." the farmer,
declared. "I've told Talak often to:
keep that dog out of my way. lie
was not safe."
"If would have been well if man
and dog had both been dismissed!
long ago." Butler commented dryly.!
"Here comes Talak now."
He could see the mdn shambling:
up the walk from the field behind j
the house."""where he had retreated'
when his employer had reprimanded!
him. The sound of the shot had:
Startled him-
Elizabeth Wade had retreated In- i
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FRIDAY EVENING.
to the dining room, then, following
! Butler's example, had come out of
the house ty the main door. She
now awaited at a little distance from
where the dog lay.
Sulov Talak's eyes fell on her he
fore he saw the other actors In tliei
little drama. A silly grin spread over!
his face.
"Who's been shootin'?" he asked.!
The Pole Weeps
A moment later and the group at j
the kitchen door, the dog lying at
their feet, came within his range of
vision.
He stopped short, all the color!
leaving his leathery cheeks. Then;
he started forward, his hands clench-!
ed.
"Who—who!" he stammered. j
Amos answered the unspoken!
question.
"I shot your dog," he explained
defiantly. "He started to attack me-
A minute more and he would have
had me by the throat. I warned!
you before" —
He got no further. With a shrill \
curse, the half-witted Pole rushed'
at him.
The farmer recoiled, but he would
not have escaped had Butler not
seized the excited creature by the:
shoulders and held him firmly.
"Careful! careful!" he warned, as!
Talak tried to free himself. Don't,
touch Mr. Cliapin, my man. Re-1
member that there's a jail down at;
Midland where you might have to'
stay for some time if you hurt him."
The man's arms dropped to his
side.
"Damn him!" he groaned, then
burst into tears.
"Shut up that whining!" Amos ex
ploded. He felt that he had been j
put in the wrong by every person}
present, and this enraged him. I
"Here" —with a motion toward the!
dead dog—"take that carcass out of
the way. And see that you clean vp|
that mess of blood, too. Do you j
hear?"
Talak bent over the dog. sobbing
and muttering something that the;
farmer's ears did not catch.
John Butler, who stood closer, i
heard the threat. It was well, ue
reflected, that Amos did not hem
it. It is a dangerous thing to win:
the hatred of a man with only half!
a mind. If Chapin appreciated this
he might be acutely uneasy.
But Amos Chapin trusted to h-s
own powers of bullying to protect:
him.
"Drag that beast off, clean up'
that spot, bury the dog. then get to]
work" he commanded sharply. "And j
don't let me hear any more nonsense.
After this perhaps you'll rememDer
that's it's not safe to cross me."
Elizabeth Steals Away
"Xor me neither!" the other ex-j
claimed.
"Shut up!" roared his master.
The man shuffled off in the di-;
rection of the stable to get a wheel- I
barrow with which to cart away *he
body of the one creature that ever!
cared for him
Feeling mentally and physically
disgusted and faint. Elizabeth Wade
walked down towards the orchard.
A step behind her made her turn.
Butler was at her side.
"Miss Moore." he said anxiously,
"you have had no breakfast, you
know."
"I don't want any, she shud
dered. |
"No wonder!" he sympathized.)
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I "Come down to We orchard."
They walked side by side in si-1
i lence until they reached a large apple |
tree in the middle of the orchard.
"Come, sit down here," Butler
| urged.
He pulled his coat off and laid it
! on the soft, thick grass at the footj
i cf the gray and gnarled treetrunk.!
"Now 1 am going to give my cr
; ders, and ycu are going to jbev ;
them," he said.
She smiled up at him after she
was seated. "What are you going
to do?" she questioned.
"Wait and see," with mock sever-!
ity. "I am going to play doctor now, j
and you are to be the patient."
"I never bad a doctor order mej
! about in all my life," she said, "at!
least—not as a patient."
To Bo Continued.)
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Warns City's Motorists;
Rules For Conservation
Local motorists were warned by j
! C. C. Winnlngham, head of the oil
1 division of the Federal Fuel Ad- j
! ministratrbn. that unless more gaso- l
line is saved voluntarily by them a !
compulsory order will issue.
It is said in the warning sent to
jJ. Clyde Myton, secretary of the
I Harrisburg Motor Club, that while
'motorists patriotically observed the
first gasolineless day last Sunday.
1 they defeated the ends of the con- j
j servation program Monday, Labor j
! Day, by driving twice as far and ]
I using twice as much gasoline to
i make yp for the denial of the day
| before. Mandatory orders which
willjbe felt sharply by the motorists
| will be a necessary measure unless
co-operation is secured from every
| motorist. Mr. Winningham said.
The following rules for the con
| servation of gasoline were outlined
! by the oil division of the fuel ad
: ministration:
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Celebrated Cantor to
Conduct Special Service
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THE REV. M. ABRAMSON
The Rev. M. Abramson, celebrated
Jewish cantor, who, with his choir
of twelve voices, will sing at Chisuk
Emunah synagogue, Sixth and Fors
ter streets, during the high holidays,
opening to-day and continuing to
morrow and Sunday and on Septem
ber 15 and 16, pleased a large au
dience last Sunday morning when
he sang before the same congrega
tion.
A student of St. Petersburg Im
perial Conservatory, he possesses a
powerful but pleasing voice. Dur
ing the coming services, composi
tions of the Rev. Abramson will be
sung as special features. Reser
vations for seats at these servlcee
are being made In large numbers.
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RARRISBURG TELEGRAPH
THE KAISER AS I KNEW
HIM FOR FOURTEEN YEARS
By ARTHUR X. DAVIS, D. D. S.
(Copyright, 1918, by the McClure Newspaper Syndicate)
(Continued.)
"With so many men at the front."
he said, "the men at home ought to!
be having a fine time with the worn-,
en, eh, what? Do you see nwny
good-looking girls in Berlin now?" j
In this connection I may mention,
that many of the more sober officers'
told ■ me that they were disgusted I
with the manner in which the Crown
Prince was acting at his headquar- j
ters. "It is really a disgrace," they
complained, "for the Crown Prince
to have so many questionable women
visiting him. It certainly doesn't set
much of an example for the rest of
the staff."
The whole situation appeared to:
the Crown Prince very much in the j
light of a joke.
"I've lust come from the western j
front," he tcld me. "My men are up l
to their knees in water and mud. i
We've been having lot of fun pump
ing the water out of our trenches
into the French trenches."
"Well, I suppose the French pump
it right back, don't they?"
"You're quite right, quite right.
That's exactly what they do. Really,
it's a great lark!"
Remarks of this kind rather sick
ened me of this self-satisfied ydung
man. I realized, of course, that his!
part in the war was played at such j
a safe distance from the front lines
that he was probably not familiar
with all the horrors of trench war-]
ware, and yet it could not be possi- ]
blc that he was unaware of the terri-]
ble loss of life and the untold agony ]
and s-• ring which millions of his]
people nad to endure while the |
"nonsensical" war continued.
That the Crown Prince had very I
little influence in the internal af
fairs of his country was Indicated, I
perhaps, by an incident in which he'
attempted to do me a favor.
I had a new "Mercer" car which I
had had sent over from America lustj
before the war started. I had been'
able to use it but little, because .he j
use of automobiles by civilians was I
prohibited as soon as hostilities he- i
gan, and, in fact, most of the cars]
were seized by the military authori- j
ties.
'•'or some reason, however, my car |
did not appeal to them, although I
confiscated the tires, i
I decided to sell it In one of the Scan
dinavian countries or send it back
to America, but I had been unable l
to get permission to do so. and I
©MAKING THE MOST OF ~
OUR CHILDREN ii
A Series of Plain Talks to
/ By Ray C. Baary, A.8., M.A.
\/ . President of the Parents Association. J V
N'o. 16. Shall We Tell Our Children Fnlry Tales?
(Copyrighted, ISIS, by The Parents Association, mo.)
WE KNOW the value of Imagi
nation to the child, and to the
man. It is the great saver
as well as the great sweetener of
life. It is because of imagination that
a man arrives—lt matters not wheth
er he be an artist or a financier. He
must have the vision before he can
achieve.
Fairy tales feed the Imagination—
and what Is more Important, per
haps. from The parent's point of view
children love them and we long to
give them what they love.
But some parente object to fairy
tales. For example, one father writes
to me:
"Don't you think that true stories
.that are not overdrawn or at least
stories that might be true could be
made Juet UH interesting ae the stories
that are out of all reason and which
will have a tendency to make chil
dren superstitious after they grew
up? And when they find there is
nothing in eueli stories as that about
Santa Claua, don't you think they
will turn on Christianity and say, >1
wonder if it is like the fairy etoriee
I used to hear? I don't believe there
ever was such a person as Jesus.' *'
There is Just ana big point to be
made in regard IQ fairy tales. Tq tell
a ehlld a fairy tale as |f ft were a
true story pf events, which actually
took plaee, fs wrong, Tq tell 3 child
(hat (here is 3 Santa Claus. who
comes down the chimney, fs 'wr°ng.
But the wrong lies in the introduc
tion to the story and not in the story
itself,
I da fet fully ggrea that true
stoFies are Just as interesting as fairy
tales to children. There is a certain 1
pleasure which children get put pf
fairy tales and "air castles" which
they da pot get from actqaf hfatery.
asked the Crown Prince if he could
arrange it for me.
"I'll arrange that for you al
right!" he promised.
A few weeks later he wrote me
that if I would take the matter up
again with the' authorities, it would
go through without a hitch as he had
notified them about it and had asked
them to grant my request.
I accordingly applied to the proper
official, to whom I gave the Crown
Prince's letter, but apparently it car
ried very little weight. They kept
the letter and the car is still in Ber
lin.
In marked distinction to the in
difference of the Crown Prince to
the horrors of the present war was
rhe attitude of the Crown Princess.
She frequently expressed to me the
sorrow she felt for all the wounded
and the surviving families of the
killed.
After the sinking of the Lusitania
I told her that it looked as if that
tragedy would bring the United
States into the war.
"It isn't that serious, is it?" she
asked. i
"Yes, indeed," I replied. "It will
be difficult now, I imagine, to re
strain Americans, and I would not
be at all surprised if war were de
clared without further negotiations."
She looked somewhat startled, I
thought, but the next time she called
—some two days later —she was all
wreathed in smiles, and said that my
fears were ill-founded. There would
be no declaration of war between
America and Germany. Two or
three days later came Germany's
agreement tc give up her ruthless
submarine warfare. Evidently she
knew whereof she spoke.
That her information was not al
ways based on such sound founda
tion, however, was indicated later
on when war seemed inevitable.
Again she was most optimistic and I
sought to elicit from her the grounds
for her assurances.
"Well, there's one thing you seem
to overlook," she answered, very
wisely. "There are no less than
twenty million German-Americans,
or Americans of German anteced
ents. in vour countrv. Their Influ
ence will be sufficient, you may de
pend upon it, to avert war between
the two countries. They will take
care that America never declares
war against Germany. I haven't
any.doubt about it at all."
Although, of course, she was quite
There are very few adults \yhe enjoy
fairy tales, but practically all chil
dren do. As nlreudy suggested, the
harm which comes In eonneetion
with fairy tales la due not to the fact
that they are Imaginary and Impos-.
slble but to the fact that they are
not properly labeled by the parent,
Purents should make clear to their
chldren what a fairy tale is, This will
not make the tale any less delightful
to the child.
After :'.ie proper Introduction and
perhaps nn occasional reminder by
the parent that the atory 1b a fairy
tale, there la no more harm In let
ting the ehlld enjoy hla images than
in letting two boya play that chairs
are horaeH, and every normal child
la bound to use hia imagination In
aome auoh way as this,
A littl- glr( pig years eld ence
asked hep mother m piy presence
whether there was any Santa Claus.
Her mother showed plainly she did
not know exactly what to say. She
hesitated and fnen paid, '"Why, pf
course, there is a Santa Claus; didn't
he put pandy in youF stocking )ast
week?' 1 This was absolutely wrong.
The question was asked in a confi
dential Wfty an 4 the tnothep'a answer
was a faisehoad. When the g|rj Is
toid by her seHoetmates and bther*
a little jater that Santa Glaug jg a
myth, the child wil| naturally tend
to lose faith ip her mother.
The mother should have smiled
and said, 'No. daughter there is np
Santa Claus, bpt we all have lots of
fun playing there is at Christmas
time, don't we?" If this method had
been used, the little girl's faith In
hep mother would }>ave increased
and she would have bad Just as
much fun about Santa Claud in the
future as if she had never been in
doubt about hU reajfty.
wrong in this supposition, as this
was the sentiment expressed no
doubt in the Kaiser's palace, she was
a gifted and well-balanced woman,
and I could not help thinking that
if the time ever came when her hus
band became ruler of Germany her
wisdom might make up in part for
his unfortunate shortcomings.
After diplomatic relations were'
broken off between America and j
Germany, the Crown. Prince and his*
family ceased coming to me. They]
were afraid, no doubt, of public erit- |
icism, although the Kaiser was not. i
Of the Kaiser's other children.'
Prince William Eitel Frederick and ]
Prince Oscar were the only ones I ]
never met.
Prince Adelbert, the Kaiser's third j
son, was a very handsome and j
charming man. He always came to
me attired in a naval officer's uni
form. I saw him but a few times, as
he was seldom in Berlin, and he
never talked on matters of general
importance. I never saw him after
America entered the war.
Prince August Wilhelm, the fourth
son, was perhaps the most demo
cratic of them all. He sometimes
came to see me in an ordinary taxi
cab and he was the only one of the
Kaiser's sons whom I ever saw in
civilian dre3s. He was the first mem
ber of the royal family to come to
me after the murder of the Arch
duke Franz Ferdinand, and he was
in mourning wdien he called. He
looked very sad and dejected and
gave me the first intimation that the
tragedy of Sarajevo would almost in
evitably lead to a general war.
In January, 1918, in speaking of
the part that America would take in
the war, he mentioned that his of
ficers had told him that 60,000
Americans were on the western
front. "We don't believe it, how
ever," he added. "How could they
get there without our knowing it?
Our U-boats would certainly have
found it out. No, Davis, it's not
true."
When he said "We don't believe
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it" he undoubtedly meant the Kaiser
and the High Command. Unques
tionably, they have long since re
alized how unreliable was their in
formation.
The Prince suffered a most seri
ous accident after the war started.
While driving an automobile the
steering gear broke and it crashed
into a tree. The chauffeur was killed
and the Prince fractured both legs
in twelve places and sustained a
fractured jaw besides.
After a number of operations and
several months' treatment in the
hospital, he came to me on crutches.
Despite IPs condition he was able
to extract a certain amount of
amusement out of an account of the
accident which he had read in a
Paris newspaper, a copy of which he
had with him. It explained that the
accident had in reality occurred
while the Prince was frantically at
tempting to dodge an enemy air
plane and went on to say that the
fractured jaw was the Prince's worst
sorrow because he was such a pig
and hated to miss his meals- The
Prince thought it was a great joke.
He will be slightly lame permanently
as a result of this accident.
(To Be Continued.)
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